The Sprocket Podcast

Brock & Aaron hold down the proverbial fort on their own this week in an episode dedicated to clearing the desk of all the cool stuff they’ve learned about in the last month.  We start out with talk about tux mayhem, train etiquette, and Indiegogo perks ...

Honky Tonk Prison is (left to right): Timo Forsberg, Esther Harlow, Chelsea Kline, Ken Southerland, Vivian Yuan, and Amos Hunter. Portland’s premier bicycle-loving ukelele band Honky Tonk Prison was kind enough to invite Brock into their weekly rehearsal to share some songs and talk about eco-friendly life in the Pacific Northwest, as well as many bad puns and some [...]

Aaron “The Professor” LaVanchy of Fort Collins, CO joins us for another entertaining discussion of his summer bicycle travel and the fantastic people one meets along the way. We discussed: Some beer talk (we talked even more about beer, and you can hear it here!) Moving & downsizing, The posse for the journey, Bit Tai Tai (or Stanley S. Bay) & [...]

This week Brock speaks to Darren Alff, proprietor of the fine bicycle touring site bicycletouringpro.com, about his most recent bicycle touring venture: a year on a bicycle, circling Europe and heading towards Africa! We discuss: Iceland touring with his old roommate Brandon the itinerary touring with Bike Switzerland bicycle infrastructure in Europe Istanbul to Bulgaria & [...]

Hop In The Saddle is the new book project from Ellee Thalheimer, Lucy Burningham and Laura Cary on bikes and beer in the Rose City!  Ellee and Lucy join us to tell all about Portland’s scene. Headlines The Oregonian: Aaron has a bone to pick with this article Atlantic Cities via Brandon:  Behold the YikeBike, the Super Lightweight Folding [...]

Bill Lascher is a journalist preparing a book on Melville Jacoby, the first Time magazine reporter killed on duty, and producer of the fabulous Thinkingest Podcast which examines our over-examining tendencies.  Today he joins us to share some of his stories of travel by train on the United States’ passenger rail service Amtrak. After we concluded the show, there [...]

Brock & Brandon celebrate 100 episodes of the Sprocket Podcast by traversing the city for hours using every mode of transport they can get into, including TriMet, the Portland Streetcar, the Portland Aerial Tram, and of course Car2Go.  Here’s a “lite” version of the 5 hours of audio we taped during the adventure. ...

Chris Sanderson is the proprietor of Builder By Bike, a full service construction business operated out of a bicycle trailer.  We discuss this gargantuan feat with him and bring former guest Joshua DeParrie of Plumbing By Bike in to comment on the details of heavy duty work on two (or more) human-powered wheels. Joshua DeParrie’s sexy bike commercial [...]

Tammy Strobel, author of You Can Buy Happiness (And It’s Cheap) and editor of the blog RowdyKittens.com, and Logan Smith join us to speak about the book’s release, downsizing and simplicity, and living without a motor vehicle in rural northern California. Also, The Sprocket Podcast continues its Indiegogo fundraising campaign to underwrite the next season of the show during [...]