Taking The Lead Together - A Bicycle Podcast
Taking The Lead Together is a series of interviews with bicycle industry executives, non-profit leaders, pro cyclists, and families just like yours who are celebrating kids on bikes and inspiring families to get off the couch... and out for a ride. The series was created from the title of the newest Buddy Pegs Media children's picture book Taking The Lead that follows lovable animal characters along a journey to open a local bicycle shop and inspire their town to ride. Learn more at www.BuddyPegs.com
Episodes
Ryan Loften is the founder, owner and head coach of Mt Tam Bikes Camp.
But that title doesn't even begin to describe Ryan!
Since 2006, he has taught over 200...
Tim Kelley is the global brand manager for K-Edge, the very best bling for your bike.
But his day job only begins to tell the story of TK as we like to call him. After climbing and...
Tim Goodall is the US Managing Director of the UK based children's bicycle brand Islabikes.
As Isla Rowntree's first employee, Tim quickly came up the ranks of this fast growth company and took the lead in s...
Ginger and Brett Rosenbauer are the power couple behind the innovative children's mountain bike brand Trailcraft Cycles.
Based in Fo...
After witnessing the power of organized mountain biking to help teenagers learn life-long lessons during his seven years of coaching the Berkeley High School Mountain Bike Team, Austin decided to put his career in natural resource management and public policy mediation on hold to become the president of NICA in late 2012.
Jacob and Sarah Rheuban are 100% focused on making the best kids bikes available today through their children's bike brand Prevelo Bikes based in West Lake Village CA.
This dynamic duo decided to put aside previous profes...
Jeff Cleary woke up one day while working as a California attorney and said wait a minute, how come there are no quality kids bikes?
That simple question led him to founding Cleary Bikes in 2014.
Based out of Sausalito CA, Cleary Bikes are now re...
For the last 30 years Trips for Kids has connected 200,000 children in the US with the power of the bicycle.
After speaking with founder Marilyn Price in a separate interview, I was excited to sit down with Executive Director...
Jerry Lawson spent the first 20+ years of his professional career developing new products and strategy for global retailers like Amazon and Tesco before he and his wife followed their passion for bicycling and their desire to find lightweight bikes for their children.
Mike Riemer aka Kid, aka Miker, is known in the bike industry as the marketing mojo behind Salsa Cycles and their adventure by bike movement.
Mike was born...
Lelan Dains is the Operations Manager for Dirty Kanza Promotions and is a native of Emporia, KS. After graduating from Emporia State University with a degree in Recreation Management, he spent much of his time time traveling and working in various recreation fields including leading cycling excursions all over the world as the Camp Director for Carmichael Training Systems.
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Ted Theochung is not exactly your typical bicycle industry leader.
After graduating from the Stanford Business school, Ted embarked on a twenty year career as a veteran technology executive with strategy and corporate development roles within Fortune 500 companies, and a few stints as a vice president for several tech start...
Rebecca Rusch's bio says that Rebecca is 'the queen of pain with a heart of gold'.
Well, that sums up everything you need to know about this 30 year professional athlete. But if you're into details, Rebecca is a 7x World C...
Dave Wiens is known by many of you for his six consecutive wins in the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race, between 2003 and 2008, where he even bested Tour de France riders Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong. But even before that Dave was inducted to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2000 after he helped define professional mountain bike racing in the late 1900's!
Eric Porter found his love for bikes exploring his local trails as a kid in Louisville, Kentucky. Before long he was crowned the National Downhill and Slalom Champion in 2001.
From there Eric launched a...
In 1988 Marilyn Price founded the non-profit Trips For Kids in Marin, CA which has since helped over 185,000 children connect with the bicycle through 75 chapters across the US! At 77 years young Marilyn rides her bike everyday and is still active as a Trips For Kids board member.
Remember the first time you pedaled off on your own Freedom machine, without Mom or Dad's steading hand? Two time Olympic mountain biker Lea Davison remembers, and in this interview you'll hear how the bike was her ticket to freedom as a young girl... and a steady supply of Snapple.
Enjoy this very special interview with Gary Fisher where we cover A LOT of topics. If you know gary, you know it's best to sit back and let him tell you some great stories and that's just what we did.
Most of us have...
Rich Tauer is the President of Quality Bicycle Products or as we call it in the bike industry QBP. Over the last 30 years QBP has grown into the largest parts distributor in the US, the parent company of other successful brands like Salsa Cycles, and a leader in green building with their LEED certified distributions centers.
What we really admire about QBP is ...
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