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The Paceline Cycling Podcast
The Paceline is a cycling podcast aimed at roadies, mountain bikers, commuters, cyclocross enthusiasts, those who grind gravel—indeed anyone who claims cycling for their own. The bicycle is more than a thing, it’s an issue. The Paceline also discusses the bike’s place in society. The hosts love bike gear so expect some banter about what works and what does not on the road and trail. The podcast on two wheels. No training wheels needed. The Paceline is hosted Patrick Brady and Lori Barrett, and…
Episodes
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week Patrick and Lori examine how they've used bike rides to help make decisions. Both big and small, the bike has figured as a way to figure things out.
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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We could probably call this the full-disclosure show with all the revelations by our hosts this week. Patrick discusses his recent trip to Idaho for…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week we run the rest of Lori's interviews from the MADE Show. In this episode we feature interviews with Aaron Barchek of Mosaic Cycles, Bud Reeder at…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 429
Cohost Lori Barrett is back from a trip to Portland for the MADE show where she interviewed a number of people. In fact, she interviewed so many people and had…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week Patrick and Lori consider helmet use, particularly when running errands or commuting. Both admit that their views—and behavior—have evolved over the…
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Summer isn't over yet, which means there is still time for a getaway, even for people with school-age kids. This week Patrick and Lori talk vacations and how…
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This week Patrick and new co-host Lori talk summer heat, humidity and their thoughts and strategies on hydration. Both confess a sweet tooth.
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This week Patrick introduces the Paceline's new co-host Lori Barrett. Lori is a veteran of cycling, both in the industry and in racing and burns more energy in…
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This week John takes a look at how the men's Tour de France is going and opines about what the women's Giro d'Italia tells us about the upcoming women's Tour…
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John and Patrick talk creativity and cycling. John wonders if cycling really needs creativity, and Patrick asserts that because flow happens, creativity…
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This week John looks at how bike categories have grown ever blurrier, to the consumer's benefit. Patrick examines the repeal of the Roadless Rule and what that…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what…
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Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business…
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Cycling can be a political act. We're not talking defiance or protest or oppression, just the simple reality that riding a bike on the road means sharing space…
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This week John takes on how there can be a delta between what we feel a bike is doing and what it is actually doing. Patrick looks at ebike batteries and just…
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In every group of riders, there are a few roles that need to be filled. There's the planner, the diesel, the pin cushion and the one who's always late, plus a…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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Conformity. How important is it to fit in? John wonders what we gain through conformity and whether the effort results in sufficient reward. Patrick takes a…
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This week John takes a look at just what we need when we head out for a ride. A helmet seems a given ... usually ... but what about that water bottle? Eyewear?…
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The show opens with a remembrance of British rider Barry Hoban. Bike riding is fun, right? John considers how much of his fun has been Type 1 (fun right now)…
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This week, John discusses what he's doing to take care of himself given the uncertainty in the world and the fact that his home is about to get a lot noisier…
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This week John takes a look at how we talk about the qualities we value in a bike. Patrick takes a look at a fresh stance one chapter of the Sierra Club has…
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Paceline Podcast 409
This week, John poses a question: What bike have you spent the most miles or time on? Beneath that is the real question: Why? What made that bike so…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 408
John considers goal setting and how that differs from a lifestyle, and just what is the cycling lifestyle? Patrick is investigating the rise of the ebike in…
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John takes a hard look at motivation and the currency it offers our ambitions. Patrick considers the spring and ramping up mileage for the coming season.
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John and Patrick look back at how they learned to ride and consider what they did differently in teaching their kids to ride. They didn't make all the same…
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John has been injured ... for entirely too long. He's taken some time off the bike to recover and he's about to turn the pedals again and he has realized…
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Tariffs have been in the news a bunch of late. They have made a substantial impact on the bike biz in the last year. John takes a look at what that is already…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week John and Patrick take on the subject of how riding affects the lives of those around us. Do they support it? Do they resent it? How do we position…
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John takes a look at e-bike design and evolution and wonders where we are headed. Patrick takes a look at a new e-bike law in California as well as a…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 401
This week John takes a look at the cost of being a cyclist and compares it to the investment into a new vehicle or a jaunt to Paris. Patrick considers riding…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Tandem: Scott Holz of Specialized
This week is a tandem episode and my guest is Scott Holz, a senior program manager for Specialized. I met Scott back in the mid-aughts when he first joined…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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Bikes lost—well, not so much lost, as ones we sold off or let slip from our grasp and which we, if given a magic time machine, we might not have parted our way…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 398
It's a new year and that means it's time to think about what we're going to do differently. That's right resolutions! Or should we call them revolutions?…
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How are things on planet bike as 2024 comes to a close? John looks into his crystal ball at what 2025 may hold. Patrick tackles the subject of road tubeless…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Tandem: Matt Fritzinger of the Blue-Tailed Skinks
This week we have an interview with Matt Fritzinger of the Blue-Tailed Skinks, a kids' mountain biking program in Sonoma County California. Matt was the…
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Christmas looms. You probably shouldn't listen to this and make your loved ones listen to it instead because we're here to give your people suggestions for…
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Thanksgiving may be thought of as the mother of all family meals, but it is a great time to stop and take stock. This week John and Patrick discuss what they…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week John takes on an acronym from the world of tech: TCO—Total Cost of Ownership. Patrick muses about what it says about us when we ride in yucky…
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This week we're talking about all the cool, surprising and unexpected places the bike has taken us over the years. It might not be where you think. All that…
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This week John talks crashing and differentiates it from falling. They are different things, he assures us. Patrick suggests that whether you're happy about…
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This week John talks about how some shops are beginning to reimagine what it means to be a bike shop. Patrick takes on the question of why, after so many years…
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This week John considers his bad choices and whether they were really even choices. Patrick discusses his experience following a bunch of kids around at a…
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This week John talks work, as in working in the bike biz. Patrick looks at how women hucked their way through the glass ceiling and into the Red Bull Rampage…
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This week John considers evolution and extinction as viewed through the lens of bikes and e-bikes. And he asks, "Will bikes survive?" Patrick discusses his…
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This week John examines Tadej Pogacar's win at the World Championship Road Race last weekend and tries not to ask the question any knowledgeable cyclist ends…
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John and Patrick begin the show by remembering Bob Parlee, the Boston-based frame builder of custom carbon fiber frames who passed away due to cancer. John…
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This week we discuss the evolution of roadie culture in the wake of the blood doping era and the "invention" of gravel bikes. Then we talk about all the good…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 383
John has been sessioning mountain bike skills with a friend and waxes, maybe not poetic, about the utility of slowing down, and breaking down a move until it…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Podcast 382
This week John considers a new purchase, a townie, a grocery-getter, errand-runner, gad-about, bike-of-all-trades. One wonders how his Vanmoof debacle will…
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Paceline Podcast 381
This week John looks at how consumers and shops will benefit if they—the dealers—begin carrying custom bike lines. Patrick takes on a question about bad fit.
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This week John takes a look at leadership, particularly as it plays out in pro teams at grand tours. Patrick takes on a question about deep rims and whether…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
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This week John talks about categories. What sorts of categories? Categories of mountain bikes. Patrick talks about pumping a mountain bike and how his own…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Tandem: Yvonne Kraus, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance
Our guest this week is Yvonne Kraus of Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. As I've mentioned in some previous episodes, I've been spending a fair amount of time…
- The Paceline Cycling Podcast
Paceline Tandem: Allen Lim of Skratch Labs
This week we have our first tandem episode in, well, forever. Last summer Skratch Labs released a new product, Superfuel, that is a high-calorie drink for…
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This week the Paceline takes a moment to acknowledge the tragic death of Norwegian pro Andre Drege. John adjusts some of his prognostications regarding the…
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With the Tour de France starting this coming Sunday, John takes a look at who the cast of characters will be and the nearly foregone conclusion of the outcome…
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This week John talks about how bike shops are the lifeblood of cycling culture and how we need them to continue to exist. Patrick explains how not all motors…
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This week John and Patrick try something a little different. They each read a piece published here at The Cycling Independent and then discuss what went into…
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Who do you ride with? Are you a solo artist or a social animal, and how does that evolve over time. Patrick tells us about a jour sans, and how he processes…
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Paceline Podcast 373
This coming weekend is Unbound, arguably the biggest gravel event in the world and John decides to ask, "Have we hit peak gravel, yet?" Patrick goes on a rant…