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Guests: Brian Bortz & Susie Laurence
As the countdown to the holidays begins – and there are SO many asks for you 
to buy, buy, buy – I’d like to offer up some alternatives and request that you think about year-end gift giving instead.
This is the first of 6 episodes that I hope will tug a bit at your pocketbook and help a worthy organization.
I’m beginning with an Ohio event – one which I cannot believe I haven’t covered in its 21-year history. Shame on me!
The Pan-Ohio Hope ride will roll out of the John Carroll University lot July 22nd, 2027. Yep, that’s the same John Carroll where the Outspoken Cyclist Podcast files are uploaded to the Internet and are lovingly archived.
Organized to highlight and raise funds for the American Cancer Society Cleveland Hope House, this small but mighty ride raised $1M in 2026.
Rather than often financially prohibitive hospital stays for some, Hope Houses, 
which are connected to hospitals around the country, offer home-like respite for a caregiver and a patient while that person is in treatment.
My guests today are Brian Bortz and Susie Laurence, co-chairs of the 2027 Ride.
It’s never too early to plan for a 4-day, 328-mile ride and the Hope Lodge here in NE Ohio, which opened in 1995, offers 43 guest rooms staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is located in University Circle close to both the main campuses for University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic.
Maybe this will be your go-to gift giving event for this holiday season.
For more information, log on to POHR.org.
Our next worthy opportunity for your consideration is Talbot Thrive, a multi-faceted advocacy organization in Talbot County, Maryland. The location sounds divine and the work they are doing is commendable.
I’m really excited about this episode because it’s an approach to safety that could truly wake up the public to a concrete reason for watching out for us on the road.
and men’s toilets – yeah, you’ll have to hear what Rob says about this – these visual reminders that cyclists are also doctors, mothers, nurses, engineers, and more are having positive effects on drivers where the campaigns are running.
Amanda McMahon loves the bicycle – everything about it. She loves riding it, racing it, talking and writing about it, and would be happy to quit her IT day job if she could “do bicycle” all day-every day.
This week’s “safety” episode is focused in Ohio but has broad implications about the laws around bikes on the road.
language that changed the whole AFRAP rule.
Yes, this episode quickly follows on the heels of my conversation with Raul Avelar from the IIHS. But, there are so many great safety conversations getting ready to stack up that I wanted to make sure we get them all in this summer.
faster, drivers are distracted, impatient, and angrier, and speed limits are ignored. So it is no wonder that fewer and fewer riders taking to the roads.
This is the second in our series about safety. And, while it isn’t a long conversation, it’s an important one because it helps to set the context for how safety trends are playing out.
My guest is 
Secretary of Transportation claws back $1.7B from the infrastructure bill that promised the money to hundreds, if not thousands, of projects, claiming that he was going to redirect the funds to roads and bridges, not to and I quote “
I’ve had this conversation archived for way too long and in re-listening while editing it today, I thought – how interesting that we are at this strange place with the announcement last week of so much money being rescinded from bike and ped infrastructure, to the amazing 50year project that completed the
scenery of Colorado coupled with great amenities along the way without climbing the Rockies!