The Cross Section Podcast

It's the penultimate episode of season 1 and a session that I had in mind from the very beginning. This week’s episode is unique in that I have not one, but two guests - Emily Kachorek and Chris Namba of Squid Bikes. They joined me from Sacramento where their unique HQ is located; a place where art and cycling become one.  I first met Emily and Chris and their third wheel Pete  years ago when they hosted the 2nd live screening...

Well, friends, this one is insanely good! It's an episode full of laughs, stories, and serious discussion and we just couldn’t hang up so to speak. We started the wrap up at one point and the went on for nearly another hour. In other words, this is a long one, folks … but my guess is you won’t even notice.

I got to sit with one of the most genuine and honest and joyful people I know. Her mantra is "Be kind. Do good. Have a...

This episode of “The Cross Section” is one of my favorite types of episodes because I got to finally meet and talk with someone who I feel like I know due to social media but we haven’t ever been face to face or had the chance to be due to the pandemic. And we hit it off as I figured we would. We talked black dogs, skiing, broken noses and, of course, cyclocross. 

She is a professional ‘cross racer based in London, Ontario...

Today I get to share my conversation with a dude who I have admired for years. In fact our pre-pandemic pub chats are a bit of an inspiration for this show. We would get together often and talk about creation and film and photography and design and whatever else we each had going on. And inspiration is the word. Chris just goes for it. Fuck the rules. He eschews convention and traditional pathways. Just. Make. It. Happen.  His DIY ...

Well, folks, this one is a long one - by far the longest to date - but it is  also one of my favorite conversations . Trust me, this one is worth your time. For this episode of “The Cross Section” we have a little story time with someone whom I love talking to and someone whom I admire a great deal: 3 time U.S. Cyclocross National champion and two-time Pan-American champion, Stephen Hyde.  If you weren’t a fan of this man before, s...

On Episode 9 of “The Cross Section Podcast” I got to hang out with one of my favorite people - Ruby West. She is a Canadian professional cyclocross racer and I first got to know Ruby in 2019 when I was able to cover her and her team that season. I picked her up at the airport on my way Bellingham for team camp and we hit it off immediately. I am very blessed to be able to say she is a good friend of mine. She is clever, smart, insi...

On Episode 8 of “The Cross Section Podcast” I got to hang out with one a very influential filmmaker in the cycling world - Sam Smith. He was the creative mind behind a seminal 4 season series with Jeremy Powers - "Behind The Barriers" - as well as two long form documentaries about cyclocross - "Transition" and "Transitions 2" - which pretty much captured the zeitgeist of 'cross during the era of t...

On Episode 7 of “The Cross Section Podcast” I got to hang out with one of the most balanced and competitive humans I know. Her name pretty much captures her spirit - Sunny - and she really is someone you want in your orbit. She joined me from Colorado where she lives and trains and works as a scientist.  We talked about her backstory, bikes and many other topics including the origin of her Instagram handle: @run4funner .  A gifted ...

This is part 2 of my talk with Dan Steinle. The first talk is a good primer for this episode when we dive into his style of imagery and the kinds of photography he does: street, photojournalism, editorial and sport. If you haven’t listened to that one, he is a freelance photojournalist who has been pretty immersed in the year of the protest covering both sides and being fair, in my opinion, to the whole story. To learn more, stop, ...

Episode 5 of “The Cross Section Podcast” is pretty unique in the sense that this is Part One of a conversation with one of my good friends - the freelance photojournalist, Daniel Steinle who has been deeply involved with covering the  protests in Portland and other places around the country from the earliest days in May and he is still at it. Part 2, tentatively titled, “January 6th” will air a few days from now and it’s a pretty a...

On Episode 4 of “The Cross Section Podcast” I got to hang out on a  wintery evening with one of the raddest humans I know. She is pretty much the embodiment of what I like to explore on the podcast - bikes, music, and art - so there is little wonder that we hit it off immediately and became good friends over the years. She is something of a rolling stone and we discussed her journeys around the country and around the world since le...

The podcast is titled in a way that allows me to and reminds me to explore many avenues that I find interesting - bikes and cyclocross, but also art and music and photography. Hence, "The Cross Section". In the spirit of the goal to explore a wide-range of topics, for Episode 3 I reached out to someone who checks a lot of the boxes that pique my interest. He is an artist I have known only in the sense of IG posts,  commen...

On Episode 2 of “The Cross Section” I got to sit down with someone very special and one of my good friends. She is person who I feel a special kinship with because my own photography career has, in some ways, paralleled her rise through the ranks of cyclocross. 4 years ago I heard of a local group of women riders based out of Sellwood Cycles who were making an all-in go at professional cyclocross. I had recently broken down as a ra...

When I thought about who I wanted to sit down with for the first episode, really, it was a no-brainer about who I wanted that person to be. Due to his bike racing and bike-building, I have known OF this person for as long as I’ve ridden and raced a bike in the PNW and in the past two years I have gotten to know him very well and a great friendship has blossomed. 

He is the co-owner of and steel bike fabricator at Breadwinner Cycles ...