What’s Your Speed?
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -“A bicycle is fast enough to go far, but not too fast to savor what you find along the way. It’s the good speed.” That’s the founding principle of our bike shop, GoodSpeed Cycles in Homewood, Illinois. This podcast will help anyone who rides a bike (or wants to) find their own good speed, featuring information on bike rides, cycling tips, area route suggestions and reviews, local bike clubs, maintenance advice and more! Plus we’ll talk to the people, organizations, and businesses who are making cycling the good speed in our Homewood-Flossmoor community.
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Episodes
A Peek Behind the Curtain: How Bikeways Happen with Leslie Phemister
December 26, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBLeslie Phemister is the Transportation Liaison with South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association (SSMMA) in East Hazel Crest, Illinois. Among the many services SSMMA provides to its 35 member municipalities is awarding and administering $7 million in annual federal transportation dollars, and Leslie manages that as well as helps communities win millions more in county, state and federal transportation grants. Leslie has leveraged her 13 years of experience developing Safe Routes to School pl...
Run With Michelle Nelson
October 24, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBIn this episode, we interview Flossmoor mayoral candidate Michelle Nelson. Michelle is a civil engineer by profession, currently employed as full-time mom, and an avid runner. She ran from her home to the shop for the interview! Even though she owns a bike! Michelle shared how picking the "low hanging fruit" could make Flossmoor—and Homewood, and any suburban town, really—safer, easier and more fun to walk, run and ride. She also shared how to turn your kid into a runner, as well as her Wo...
An Interview with Tom Dobrez
July 10, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBTom Dobrez grew up with bikes the way most of us did - riding around with friends, risking grave injury riding sketchy ramps, and exploring the area miles around his home. As a grownup, he and his friend Mark Hamlin wanted to help people recapture the carefree exhilaration of cycling with an adult twist—and thus founded perhaps the South Suburbs' most iconic underground ride, Biking the 'Burbs for Beers. We also talk to Tom about Bike the Gem, Flossmoor's cycling preview of their Hidden Gem...
GSC 10th Anniversary Episode
May 22, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBGraham Bolkema started GoodSpeed Cycles in 2010 when he was just 23 years old, after his dad was tragically killed while riding his bike. Shop manager Josh Klein walked away from a desk-bound career as an architect and inside sales for the riches and glory of bicycle retail. In this episode, Graham and Josh share what it’s like to grow up in love with bikes (and how to make your kids love bikes too), the origins of the name GoodSpeed Cycles, the challenges and rewards of running a community-...
A Chat with Barb & Dan Lawler
May 01, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBIn this episode Chris & Steve talk about some of the changes in the shop and cycling in general due to the Illinois stay at home order. Long-time friends of the shop and world’s best group ride leaders, Barb & Dan Lawler, talk about what keeps them motivated to keep cycling during the age of COVID-19. We introduce our new segment "Worst/Best" plus some more great stuff! If you'd like to call in with your own Worst/Best, you can leave us a message at 708-794-6588. We’ll listen to them all (k...
What's Your Speed Intro
April 05, 2020 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.94 MBWelcome to the "What's Your Speed?" podcast. Your hosts from GoodSpeed Cycles in Homewood, IL are going to provide a quick tour of what to expect as our podcast develops! Thanks to ASP for the tunes for this week's episode. If you dig it, you can find more of their music on iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. https://aspbandofficial.wixsite.com/website You can find us at goodspeedcycles.com or email us at [email protected]. Don't forget to follow us on FaceBook, Instagram, and Twitter.