The Sprocket Podcast

Happy Holidays, all you Sprocket Podcast devotees! Or, as these socks suggest, happy Challah Days if that is appropriate to your observance. Brock went to Boston as is his custom for the Christmas season, and while there he spoke with Michael & Bianca of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race, an amazing feat of engineering and … Continue reading E392 – Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race →

EJ & Ellie join us in the studio to retell the fateful story of their first bike camping trip, marked by (soft) tradgedy! Actually, it all worked out pretty well in the end, and got them hooked. Do YOU have a wrench in your toolkit? Calendar 2nd Friday of Every Month Boston Bike Party Also … Continue reading E391 – EJ & Ellie →

Kraig Pauli raced in and won the 2017 Steens Mazama 1000 (a 1000 mile endurance race through Oregon). He joins us in the studio to describe his journey through the event and what his tips, tricks and surprises were.  Learn more about the Steens Mazama 1000, and apply if you dare, at steensmazama1000.com Also, the … Continue reading E390 – Kraig Pauli wins the Steens Mazama 1000 →

Jimmy Diesel & his sister Mary join to chat about Jimmy’s bicycle adventure from Lake Tahoe to Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine!  He fills us in on his 104 day trip.  Tim Mooney from Pedalshift joins us as well, because, y’know, bike touring! Calendar 2nd Friday of Every Month Boston Bike Party Also 2nd friday … Continue reading E389 – Jimmy Diesel Talkin’ Tourin’ →

newly remastered version with high quality audio! Guthrie, Aaron & Brock gave a live 20 minute presentation of the show at the first annual Portland Podcast Festival, an exciting event that brought many of Portland’s talented media creators together for a great night of fun.  We captured our 20 minute set, plus some audio backstage … Continue reading E388x Live at the Portland Podcast Festival! →

Madeline Kovacs is the program director of Portland for Everyone  a coalition of community organizations, individuals, and local businesses that support those land use policies that will help provide abundant, diverse & affordable housing options in all of Portland’s neighborhoods. Calendar 2nd Friday of Every Month Boston Bike Party Also 2nd friday of Every Month … Continue reading E388 – Madeline talks YIMBYism →

Elly Blue and Joe Biel of Microcosm Publishing and Brian “VeloGioielli” are here to talk about Bike Craft and holiday shopping with ethics.  Get your locally produced bicycle-related goods for the people you care about this holiday season! Also, Guthrie MC’d his first event with the Sprocket, and Aaron got his flight schedules mixed up. … Continue reading E387 – Bike Craft 2017! →

Tom McTighe has been coordinating Cranksgiving, the yearly charity-driven alleycat race, for a few years here in Portland, Oregon, and this year he brings another event with his team of amazing volunteers for a tight, short course to keep the generous out of the rain when possible.  It’s coming this Saturday!  Find one in your … Continue reading E386 – Giving Cranks with Tom McTighe →

Alex Phillips works with Oregon State Parks on the Scenic Bikeways program to create beautiful rides in scenic corridors, and she drops by to explain how the system works.  We’re lucky to have these opportunities in our state, and we were happy to have her in to chat about them! Our friends at The Path … Continue reading E385 – Alex Knows Scenic Bikeways →

Jeremy Mendelson has been following The Sprocket Podcast for some time, and has been on the show a few times before (once in 2012 and once in 2015), but this is the first time he’s been to Portland!  We chat about his many travels by bike, the transit jobs between trips that fund his adventures, … Continue reading E384 – Jeremy’s Nomadic Travel Career →

  Bike Angels Exist, Burn All Evidence! BAE BAE is a mostly-female bike club in Portland, OR. We speak to Holly & Laurel about fun, on-time departures and rain, amongst other things. They describe their group this way: “We are building the bike scene we want to be part of – one that is fun, … Continue reading E383 – BAE BAE PDX! →

Lillian Karabaic is a good friend of the show, and has been on many times in the past, but today she brings something new: “purr-sonal” finance!  Her new project, Get Your Money Together, aims to knock down the difficulties standing between the average person’s goals of savings and affording the things they need in their … Continue reading E382 – Lillian’s Finances & Felines →

Nathan Jones hasn’t been on the show in a while, and that’s because he’s been busy riding 18,000 miles around the planet.  This weekend he gave a presentation at Bike Gallery’s Westmoreland location about the whole trip, including passage through monastery-filled eastern Europe, assembling a bike alone at 4am in an Indian airport, viewing a … Continue reading E381 – Nathan Jones Races Around Earth →

It’s coming, you guys!  Freak Bike Fall 2017!  Be there, or ride square wheels!

In the studio today we have Robert Weaver who rode his recumbent bike across the land.  He gives us the lowdown on being closer to the ground, and what he learned as he crossed the continent!  We’re glad he got in touch on his way to the west coast.  Follow Robert at whatifitspossiblenow.com As always, Thank … Continue reading E380 – Robert Rides Recumbent Relentlessly →

Tim Mooney of The Pedalshift Project returns to help us light up another episode of the however-many-timers’ club, chat a bit about his upcoming coastal bike tour, and provoke us to maximum jackassery.  And apparently he was a child actor?!?!   Also: It’s Brock’s last show, and he passes a literal four foot torch to … Continue reading E379 – Mooney, & A Four Foot Torch →

Kevin Prentice has joined us before – he’s one of the geniuses at Ride With GPS, an indispensable tool for planning and having active adventures.  He brings his friend Donnie Kolb from oregonbikepacking.com onto the show to talk about adventures in dirt and how to get into some fun trouble in the woods or the … Continue reading E378 – Donnie & Kevin Play In The Dirt →

Our friend and work travel correspondent Eric Iverson dropped in on the Salt Lake City version of the Thursday Night Ride phenomenon, known locally as The 9.9.9, and caught some great conversation with various participants!  He also recaps a visit to the great state of Alaska where he met listener Phil, who notoriously wears a … Continue reading E377 – Eric Does SLC Thursday Night Ride →

Emee has been on the show before, and after a recent conversation we decided to do an episode about what she likes about music on bikes!  While we’ve talked about major scale sound systems like our friend PJ’s, how does the average music fan get into a mobile setup?  What do you listen to on … Continue reading E376 – Emee & Armando Talk Music on Bikes →

Brock delivers a special announcement with Aaron’s help. An atypical oversight caused this recording to have some fuzzy qualities.  Please forgive us!