12:00 What's the Tour de France all about? Here's how to get into the sport
1:00 Here's how, and why, people bike with their kids
The Tour de France is one of the top watched sports in the world, and Netflix's Tour de France: Unchained has brought the sport to an even bigger audience. It's never been more popular on Instagram, where the official organization and media savvy young champions like Tadej Pogačar are engaging fans with fun behind-the-scenes videos, and there are even some local connections to the sport.
If you haven't gotten the bug yet, we'll show you how to become a fan in the first hour. Our guests:
- Jamie Batten, series director of Netflix's Tour de France: Unchained, joins us from London
- Cosmo Catalano, a racing commentator known for his long-running How The Race Was Won series, who now podcasts for The Escape Collective
- Andy August, a bike racer, mentor to professional cyclists AJ August and Magnus Sheffield, former owner of Park Ave Bikes
- Scott Page, owner of Full Moon Vista bike shop and Rochester Cyclocross race organizer
In our second hour, we talk about biking with your kids. Our guests get around by bike to schools, grocery stores, and every other type of place you can imagine. They'll talk about organizing bike buses to get to school in a group, electric assist cargo biking, and what their kids - and grandkids - love about biking. Our guests:
- Meg Hamlin-Black, who rides a cargo bike with her two children
- Adrian Martin, organizer of a Rochester bike bus
- Marjorie Rolleston, she switched to an e-bike four years ago after years of bike commuting and recreational riding. She bikes with her grandchildren in an orange and blue cargo bike they call 'the Blippi bike'
- Keith Walt, co-organizer of the Geneseo bike bus
Please call in to join our conversation at 1-844-295-TALK (8255). If you miss the live stream, come back for the podcast version.
