Our podcast - Adelaide Cyclists/ Bicycle Institute of South Australia

A podcast co-production about cycling in Adelaide, South Australia, by Adelaide Cyclists & the Bicycle Institute of SA. If you have any comments or ideas we'd love to hear from you.

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Podcast #10 5000+ - a strategic plan for Adelaide

This podcast  is a recording of the Bicycle Institute's guest speaker at their 2011 AGM. Tim Horton is the Integrated Design Commissioner for SA. He gave us a preview of the plan for design in Adelaide released in the first week of June called 5000+ and encouraged us as cyclists to have a say.

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Tim Horton with Bicycle Institute Chair Jeremy Miller (on left).

Podcast #9 Margaret Day and the Sierra

This podcast from Adelaide Cyclists and The Bicycle Institute, SA is a bit of a selfish one from me. I wanted to tell this story and record Margaret telling the story of the bicycle and her involvement in cycling in South Australia with The Bicycle Institute and her touring the world by bike.

This is the story of a bicycle, my bicycle. It’s a ruby red coloured touring bike called a Sierra and, in bike years, is much older than me and has seen more of the world. It’s my bicycle now but it was someone else's once. This story starts for me only a few weeks before last Christmas but began for well known Adelaide Cyclist Margaret Day 25 years before.

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Margaret is known to many in the Adelaide cycling community for her many years of enthusiasm for cycling locally, he 36 years or so of involvement with The Bicycle Institute of South Australia, and touring to many fantastic locations around the world - many on this ruby red Sierra.

Listen to part 2 of the Podcast (if you can't see the player click here) about Margaret's recollections of cycling in Adelaide in the 70s and 80s and thoughts on how far, or not, we've come.

Read the full blog post about the bike here.

Podcast #8 December 2010 - Ride Like Crazy

Senior Sergeant Paul Evans who is the Event Director for the Events Project Team in the South Australian Police force and it's his team who are responsible for putting on Ride Like Crazy where he talked about what goes into organising a ride which is estimated to attract over 2000 riders in on Sunday Jan 16, 2011 and about the history of Ride Like Crazy and that the term crazy is not a verb but is actually a proper noun.

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Podcast #7 September 2010 - Bicycle Boulevards, cargo cycling and the Tom Simpson of SA Politics

In this podcast Sophia MacRae speaks to Norwood MP Steven Marshall about his plans to turn Beulah Rd into a bicycle boulevard, we find out who is the Tom Simpson of Adelaide politics and all about cargo cycling from someone who really knows.

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Podcast #5 May 2010 - Stephen Yarwood's keynote address at the 2010 BISA AGM

This podcast is the keynote address at the 2010 Bicycle Institute of South Australia AGM by Adelaide City Councillor and as you will hear, mayoral candidate, Stephen Yarwood.

Councillor Stephen Yarwood will officially announce his candidacy for Mayor today, Wednesday May 26, and that is good news for cyclists and after you listen to the address you might think it is good news for the city of Adelaide as well.

Stephen Yarwood describes himself as an urban futurist he's also a town planner, research officer for environment, development and resources committee of state parliament, he's lectured around the world and is interested in Asian cities. he's currently doing his master of business administration and has been given a scholarship to complete that it Denmark over the next few months.

Read a transcript of this podcast presentation by Stephen Yarwood here.

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Podcast #4 April 2010 - Long distance cycling

Consider what sort of fitness it might require and planning and on the road support. Would you do it for a good cause? Meg Smart and a group of cyclists from her EFM gym at Lonsdale are doing the ride and their charity is the Flinders Medical Centre Neo Natal unit. They hope to raise $50,000.

Their ride starts on Sunday May 2 after only 6 months planning but it hasn't all been easy - they've had setbacks as you will hear. We hear from Meg as she was about to leave Adelaide.

The web address to donate is http://www.everydayhero.com.au/meg_smart

We also talk to a few of the participants at the start of the Savings & Loans Coast to Coast ride including the GM of The Smith Family, Graham Jaeschke and Ashleigh Moore from Cancer Voices SA.

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Podcast #3 Earth Ride 2010 and flash mob special

Sunday 28th of March is Adelaide City Council and BicycleSA are hosting an Earth Day community ride.

Aimed at promoting environmental sustainability, including sustainable transport options and encouraging behavioral change among patrons. Incorporating the outer city squares, Earth Ride - Adelaide 2010 will take bike riders on a car free, entertaining and educational journey through the city streets in support of Earth Hour.

On Friday 19 to promote the Earth Day ride a flash mob event took over King William St outside the Town Hall for five minutes from 12.30pm. Music was played, cyclists were invited to ride around the road and inflated earth balls were thrown from the Town Hall balcony.

At 12.35pm as the traffic resumed on King William St I spoke with BicycleSA CEO Christian Haag about the intentions of the Earth Ride and progress towards more car free days in Adelaide

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Podcast #2 March 2010

In this program Angus Kingston talks to Ianto Ware; Adelaide musician, festival promoter, cyclists and author of 21 Nights In July - the Physics and Metaphysics of Cycling and meets Travis Gottschutzke, an Adelaide Cyclists community member.

Get in fast and win a copy of 21 Nights in July from BISA. Listen and answer an easy question. More details...

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Podcast #1 - February 2010

In this program Jeremy Miller, the chair of BISA, talks to the SA Minister for Transport Patrick Conlon about the future of cycling in Adelaide and the next stage in planning a cycling network

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Read the full transcript of this interview with Patrick Conlon here.