How to Bike in the City, With the Bike Snob and Brooklyn Spoke

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🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re tackling the topic of urban cycling. Our guests include Eben Weiss, author of "The Ultimate Bicycle Owner’s Manual: The Universal Guide to Bikes, Riding, and Everything for Beginner and Seasoned Cyclists"; Rosemary Bolich, the Director of Community Outreach at We Bike NYC; and Doug Gordon, better known as Brooklyn Spoke—a TV producer and outspoken cycling advocate. We’ll find out what some people have against mandatory helmet laws, how cities can make their streets safer for cyclists, and why it’s not worth it to argue with a motorist (but it IS worth it to quietly hate them). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:10.7	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief
1:12.5	of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're taking on urban
1:18.3	cycling in all its glory and all its ridiculousness. We'll talk about the best commuter bikes,
1:24.9	if and how cities can get to Vision Zero, and how to handle
1:28.5	that A-hole riding the wrong way in the bike lane.
1:30.9	Our guests today include Eben Weiss, otherwise known as the bike snob, and author of several
1:35.8	books on biking.
1:37.1	We talk to Eben about bike culture and etiquette.
1:39.4	People credit two things when they survive miraculously.
1:42.3	It's a helmet or Jesus, you know, and I have a
1:45.3	similar lack of faith in both things. Then I talk with Rosemary Bollick from We Bike, NYC, a community of
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