Episode 11: Richard Fries — Friend of Cycling so Friend of Yours

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Does texting and riding bikes have you down? Too many cars? Too few bikes lanes? If there's too much negativity directed towards cycling, you need some Richard Fries in your life! Richard is a livelong cyclist, has worked in nearly every facet of the sport, serves as longtime Executive Director of MassBikes, and now helps bring more people get into to cycling with the Best Buddies organization. Richard is one of the nicest and most well spoken people to ride a bike.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome on back to King of the Ride podcast. I'm your host. I am Ted King,
0:07.6	and I am on an island in Maine as we speak. I've been coming here my entire life. In fact,
0:14.3	after both of my tour to France, 2013, 2014, this was the first place I touched down after
0:19.8	after leaving France. I came straight
0:23.4	here. It is heavenly. That's why you might hear some birds chirping and waves lapping in the
0:27.3	background. I used to come here the day after school ended as a kid, spend the entire summer
0:31.3	up here as a kid being a kid. And then the day before school would resume in the fall, we'd go back home.
0:39.8	This place is awesome.
0:41.7	I'm excited to be here for a week of vacation.
0:43.7	Anyway, I'm also really excited that today is a rest day of the tour, the final rest day
0:48.0	so that we can catch up on all the action, of which there has been absolutely no shortage.
0:53.3	If you're not interested in the tour and
0:55.0	tour coverage, I know you're still going to enjoy this conversation. So you're welcome to fast
0:59.8	forward the next 10 or so minutes as I cover all things tour past, present, and future.
1:05.5	But I'm excited about the conversation that we have with Richard Freeze. Richard and I sat down
1:09.9	just a handful of days ago
1:11.0	and talk about his connection to the cycling world,
1:14.7	which is his entire lifetime.
1:17.5	He is a career in advocacy and publishing and promotion,
1:21.3	and he has what I would call a democratization of cycling.
1:24.7	He wants access for all types of cycling.
1:29.4	He speaks on behalf of all types of cyclists. Richard Fries truly is a legend in his own time. I think you're going to really enjoy
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