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Guests: Patrick Lucas; Landall Proctor, Vic Micolucci
Have you ever thought about who owns the land under your wheels when you roll out onto a trail with your bike? What if these trails were built without the permission of the land owners?
Patrick Lucas not only thinks about these things, he does something about them as a community planner and intermediary between First Nations’- people who often never ceded their land through treaties or other means – and those of us who want to ride or otherwise recreate on those lands.
Patrick lives and works up on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He wears a lot of hats including one as a community planner, one as a storyteller, one as a writer, and he’s the founder of the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program. While in a meeting with a remote tribe of indigenous people, an elder asked Patrick what he knew about mountain biking. The question came up because Patrick always had a mountain bike strapped to the back of his car. And, out of that conversation came the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program
But, the thing that drew me to Patrick was an article he wrote that accompanied a webinar video about Decolonizing Trails in B.C. and I didn’t know what that meant or why it was important.
Today, Landall Proctor is a software developer. But, pretty much right out of college he just wasn’t ready 
to make a long term career choice and quit the day job he had at the time. Instead, he decided to take a 100 day 10,000 mile cross country trip.
He kept a journal filled with the stories of that ride and when he returned he thought about turning the journal into a book. He started and stopped and started again and it just didn’t happen – until now, 15 years later.
That book is “Headwinds – A Memoir,” and it was worth the wait for him to write it.
We also have a quick conversation with TV anchor Vic Micolucci from WJXT-TV4 in Jacksonville, Florida. On Sunday, February 28th, during a 72 hour bike race from the west coast of Florida to the St. Augustine on the east coast, several crashes between cars and riders occurred resulting in injuries and one death.
Vic is covering that story and will fill us in on some of the details he knows up until now as there is an ongoing investigation.
This week, we meet journalist and long-distance cyclist Elizabeth McGowan.
taking the trip and then teasing out the whys that became the real story.
According to Rob, George’s assumptions were based upon outdated knowledge of the organization and Rob DeMartini l wanted to offer a more current explanation of how the organization works.
The first is with Brendt Barbur. Brendt founded the 
FEbruary 12th and we are counting on you to help us reach our goal of $50K for this year’s Come Together for WJCU 2021 radiothon..
My first guest is not new to TOC, he is ex-pro and 
on a U23 team about 10 years ago. As many young people who believe that “it will just go away on its own” sometimes like to believe, he began experiencing the pain, inflammation, and accompanying symptoms of what eventually flared into full-blown ulcerative colitis, forcing him off his bike and into the hospital.
Last week, I promised a review of 
potholes to collisions and other safety hazards. It’s a crowd sourced tool for global mapping of cycling safety.
And, finally we speak with a team of planners from ODOT, our own Ohio Department of Transportation, about the new
discuss weekly mileage – whether you should take one LONG ride a week or several shorts rides.
Armand Budish, the Cuyahoga County Executive, had this to say to jump start the plans for the new Lakefront Planning Effort:
I always think of Alaska as being exotic and so far away. I know many of you have been there, but I haven’t. So, almost like being there, we’re going to talk with AJ Roan.
thought it was high time to see what the organization is up to these days.
My first guest is blunt, to the point, and doesn’t mince words when it comes to the Mayor of NYC and the NYPD. 
Today, I thought we’d begin with a wrap-up of the 2020 bicycling season with 
St. Peter’s in Rome and recently had transferred back to the U.S.