We traveled by phone from Ireland to the offices of Sacramento Bike Coordinator, Ed Cox, a former architect  who has played a big part in shaping the way people move about in his state capital city. In the words ahead you will hear the impact he has had not only on Sacramento but the region and the entire state of California..

Hear the Power of Relationships - Rapid Transit Chicago Style
I was finally able to lock two dynamic powerhouses down to one place at one time so I can now show you why I am so excited about what I have learned about them over the course of our 15 years of business dealings. Far more than selling bikes, they will help you see, in the words ahead, how it has been nurturing the relationships that result that has so deeply endeared their Rapid Transit Cycles shop to the Chicago bicycle landscape. Ladies and gentleman, I present long time NBG supporters, the amazing husband and wife team of Chris Stoddard and Justyna Frank.

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New Rhoades Car CEO Places Focus on FUN - Sponsors 2011 Mayors' Ride
We are going to take you behind the scenes to a new Mayors' Ride sponsor and a bicycle company that long has had FUN as its mission statement. And who better  can rebuild such a company  after its founder's death than a top flight businessman who also loves to make  merry? Listen to the great time Bill Pomakoy is having as his all new Rhoades Car is celebrated  on every continent on the planet!

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Rod Miner - From Bikes for Amputees to the Lightfoot Cycles Miracle - We spent some time visiting with a new sponsor of our ride and the man who used to build bikes for third world victims of  land mine explosions. Rod Miner of Lightfoot Cycles, one of this nation's greatest bike builders, thanks to the Internet has been able to keep the purity of his purpose  alive. From a tiny Montana town of 1500 people Rod has been able to flourish in satisfying his goal of supplying  people all over America and the world with  transportation that is in his words, 'reliable, highly efficient and highly capable'.

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We traveled to what we feel is a perfect world example of  how the National Bicycle Greenway  can take advantage of  the geographical assets each region all across the United States has to offer to increase the well being of all those who use it as well as those who live and work nearby. While it takes a region wide community of people from many walks of life to manage the 37+ mile American River Parkway jewel set at the base of the Sierras, we found three authoritative voices who have had decades of  experience with it on many levels. In the words ahead, you can HEAR what  Folsom Recreation Manger, Lynn Lepage, Folsom Water Works Operator, Daryl Pearson and Folsom Trails Director, Jim Konopka, have to say about the true bicycle treasure they get to enjoy on a daily basis.

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A casual, slow moving audio/visual bike tour of the world's first Bike Boulevard, the Ellen Fletcher Bike Boulevard, in Palo Alto, CA

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Kelvin Clark

Update - including slide show and the Cycle Different story
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We spent some time visiting with the amazing Renaissance Man who has become the new USA manager for our National Bicycle Greenway  Mayors' Ride journey across America with the Eagle, Busycle and 40 foot support bus. Shawn Raymond is an inventor, patent holder, engineer, mechanic, sculpture artist and business founder who brushes the challenge our ride represents off as just another day at the office.

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We traveled to southern California to talk to the people who make what my long distance bike rides across America are now proving to me is indeed Grade A, Rocket Fuel. In all the training I have been doing that will soon get me and the 1891 Eagle HiWheel across America, I have found what I know will soon become the cyclist's best friend, one of my ride's main sponsors, Sunfood!!  You may want to pull your notebooks out as Brian Bowers and Chris Ochs at Sunfood teach those of us interested in high performance living how we can eat better. And how we can do so with the amazing foods they have been introducing to people all over the world for well over a decade. 

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We visited with one of the longest serving business in Palo Alto, CA. Located on its real Bike Boulevard, Park Ave, Park Automotive has been led by a brilliant businessman/mechanic since 1977. Listen as Don Armstrong tells us how Palo Alto and the automotive industry both have changed in the birthplace of the Silicon Valley over the last three decades. As you listen, bear in mind that as one of our NBG sponsors, Don's support has been crucial for which we are extremely grateful. He has given  the 40 foot  bus we will be using to get the Busycle  to the East Coast as it supports my ride across the USA on the Eagle, a safe haven.

We went to the Pacific NW (Seattle) to visit with

We visited with Tim Brummer, the former aerospace engineer who builds bikes so fast that even a middle of the pack roadie can blow the doors off Lance Armstrong on one. In his quest to go even faster, you will hear why his company, Lightning Bikes, supports the National Bicycle Greenway  and our upcoming ride across the US .

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Virginia Krieg talks about her life in Ireland and future with the NBG and Martin Krieg.

To Listen..
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We just remastered this sound file from my 2009  Eagle visit to Salt Lake City. It is an iPhone recording Martin Krieg did with recumbent cyclist,

talks about his excitement for getting people into biking and keeping them on their bikes through his shop Reser Bicycle Outfiters across the river from Cincinnati OH

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Ron Bishop, a bike activist in Oakland CA talks about the beauty of bicycling in his San Francisco Bay Area City as well as his Car Free life style and his work as a green architect.

RIP 12/11/11

Jack Baker, S&B Recumbents, Interviewed!

RIP 7/2011

Hear the amazing story behind the oldest recumbent in the marketplace as told by the gentle Jack Baker of S&B Recumbents who also specializes in building custom recumbents for those with special needs!!

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Celebrated San Francisco cyclists

Author, TV commentator, public speaker, radio news producer, and jazz-trained vocalist, judy b. talks about how Critical Mass introduced her to her cycling way of life.

Chris Carlsson, Longtime, SF Cycling icon: "One of the original founders of Critical Mass - editor, "Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration" SF Historical bike tour leader Speaks!

Andy Thornley, SFBC Program Director, formerly of Boston, a qualified and knowledgeable presence at the SFBC, as you will soon hear, his understanding of the bicycle streets of San Francisco also runs very deep.

See MIT grad, former Oracle engineer & current SFBC Operations Director, Frank Chan, pedal SF's steepest hills Listen to him talk about SF & bicycling.

Swiss-born and Car Free all of her life, Mona Caron has been biking to her work as an illustrator and muralist in San Francisco since 1996. Hear how she makes it work on a bike.

Leah Shahum SFBC Director San Francisco Bike Coalition Director (SFBC), talks about cycling in her city and how her organization has grown to meet the many challenges facing San Francisco bike riders.

National Bicycle Greenway director, Martin Krieg, spent some time talking to five different people who work in San Francisco as professional bike messengers. He set out to learn more about an occupation that few people know very much about. Hopefully you will go away with a better understanding of how what looks like glory and fun to some is a lot like any other kind of work where responsibility, discipline, patience and people skills are important keys to success.

Chris 14:51 | Jody 10:57 | Lon 10:03 | Shark (pictured at left) 14:42 | Wendy 12:01

Here the week before our 5th Annual National Mayors' Ride begins in Boston we spent some time on the phone there with fascinating recycling artist Matthew Mazzotta. Matthew is the main driving force behind the amazing 15-person Busycle that will be touring the San Francisco Bay Area with us this July where this year's campaign ends. Listen

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We visited Frank Cownie, who as the Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, sees the bicycle as an important part of the sustainable practices that he is so committed to there in the center of the United State. LISTEN to this fun man as he tells us why his city is truly one of America's best kept secrets.

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Ellen Fletcher

A couple of days after he took the keys to the Easy Racer factory, we spoke with Fast Freddy Markham, a man who has broken innumerable speed records both on uprights and on a bike made by one of the early pioneers of the modern day recumbent movement, a man who recently passed away, the legendary Gardner Martin. And as fate would have it, the company Gardner built, Easy Racers is now owned by the man who made the Easy Racer name synonymous with speed. Here is Part ONE of our two part interview. Here is Part TWO!

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Yesterday, we completed our long scheduled interview with a man who has had more to do with making it fun for humans to move about than any man alive today. It's no small wonder that he got his beginning selling plans for what was arguably the first recumbent bicycle since they got banned from racing in 1934. Laugh with us as we TALK with Robert Q. Riley, a man whose life is so huge it could fill an entire set of encyclopedias.

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See the training for
his ride to Iran

Last week, we visited with a a true living legend at his

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Melanie Visuzzi

Jacques Graber, the ride leader for our annual 60 mile Folsom to Davis Gold Run Relay ride, has has been riding HiWheel bikes for over two decades.

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Former Bike Threads owner and longtime NBG Volunteer and supporter and bike club officer, Scott Campbell, who rode from Boston to San Francisco as a part of our 5th Annual National Mayors' Ride TELLS us about his past and how he came to want to pedal across the Ñation.

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Gene Smith the man behind the widely revered name

Jack Castor, former engineer, TransAmerica HiWheel legend, survivor of internet famous Jack's Crash , and present day collector of antique bicycles and bike memorabilia as well as vintage and racing automobiles TALKS about his collection, his coast to coast crossing and the spectacular bike accident he survived.

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Randy Schlitter, one of the pioneers of the present day recumbent movement, a man who among other things, under the company name, Rans, manufactures both bicycles and airplanes, TALKS about the products he manufactures, the Sail Trike that got it all started back in the '70's and even the book he is writing that also has the capacity to provoke another whole new way of thinking.