E242 Tim and Austin of Holy Spokes

Happy tuesday folks! This week we have Tim and Austin formerly from Rolling Wrench (we'll clear that up in the audio). We talk about his mobile repair shop and the transition into Holy Spokes, which I mix up all through the episode. Chris Gonzalez from Chico comes back to hang with us because he had a lot of questions about mobile repairs. Guthrie Straw from Pedal Dream also joins us as a substitute cohost and fills us in a little with what's been going on in his life. Dammit! Forgot to get pictures. Thanks to our beverage sponsor, The Beer Mongers, who will be having the Sour Beer Festival this weekend June 19 & 20. Sour Beers on all taps Friday starting at 3:30pm with U.S. Breweries, and continuing Saturday, all day, with Imports. As always, thanks to our generous Patreon donors that keep us going!  Headlines: from bikeportland.org Enough is enough: Another death must spur real action Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on June 15th, 2015 at 11:17 am Enough is enough. A man lost control of his Subaru Forester SUV while driving eastbound on the Burnside Bridge Sunday afternoon. He swerved across the lanes and hit two people who were walking on the sidewalk. 35-year-old Bridget Larrabee was seriously injured and her friend Ben Carlson, 36, died at a hospital a few hours later. Carlson and Larrabee lived together in northeast Portland. The man behind the wheel of the SUV was 59-year-old Beaverton resident Douglas Walker. The reality is this: If we had physically protected space on the Burnside Bridge, there is a very good chance Ben Carlson would be alive today and Douglas Walker wouldn’t have to live with the sadness and guilt that will plague him for the rest of his life.   State seems ‘very receptive’ to a raised bike lane on outer Powell, advocates say Posted by Michael Andersen (News Editor) on June 11th, 2015 at 4:56 pm It’s looking as if the Oregon Department of Transportation might become one of the first state transportation agencies in the country to build a raised bike lane into an urban highway project. It’s just a possibility and it’s still years away, but it’s the upshot of ameeting Monday in which several biking advocates urged the state to consider the design as part of itsOuter Powell Safety Project. Much of the conversation at Monday’s meeting focused on five blocks of the project between SE 99th and 104th, alongside the Ed Benedict Skate Park, where the roadway is relatively narrow and more than a few feet of land acquisition might interfere with a nearby camper-trailer retail operation. On those blocks, project managers are discussing installing 12-foot-wide multi-use paths on each side of the street rather than separating the bikeway from the sidewalk.   from velonews.com Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske: Do cyclists pay their fair share? (read the whole article and you'll notice a familiar PDX name) It boils down to this: The user fees a motorist pays throughout the year don’t cover the amount actually needed for building and maintaining automobile infrastructure. This means that automobile infrastructure must be subsidized, with the needed funds coming from the general fund (meaning from all of us).   Fine Print music: Ryan J. Lane (intro & outro) & Hurtbird (headlines) web: http://thesprocketpodcast.com email us: thesprocketpodcast@gmail.com phone/SMS: 503-847-9774 twitter: @SprocketPodcast mail things to: Brock Dittus/The Sprocket Podcast ℅ IPRC 1001 SE Division St Portland OR 97202 Thanks to our sustaining donors for supporting our show costs: Logan Smith, JohnnyK, Shadowfoot, Kathrina Mellemgaard, Wayne Norman, Doug Robertson, Ethan Georgi, Justin Martin, Eric Iverson, Cameron Lien, Richard Wezensky, Tim Mooney, Orange & Purple, Glenn Kubish, Matt Kelly, Jim Goodin, Eric Weisz, Doug CohenMiller, Todd Parker, Scott McAllister Morgan, Chris Gonzalez, Dan Gebhart, Zoe Campagna, John Blood, Alison Wiley, Andy Brunner,