Today we have Bayley Inniss on as our guest! She's a first year PhD student in health promotion at Western University who bikes to and from campus with her children as a means to stay active and cut down on her carbon emissions. She wants to help people see that bike commuting CAN be the easy choice, possibly even easier than taking your car, especially when you can just avoid rush hour traffic entirely by not contributing to it! You'll find her on the roads of London trying to be a cycle commuting role model and inspiring others to give bike commuting a shot! We cover a bunch of topics, including: - How getting kids AND adults to be more active would improve everyone’s lives for so many reasons… including better focus and better sleeps - How she bike-commutes on an acoustic bike while towing her kids in the trailer! - The lack of driver awareness - How biking is so, so possible for so many people - Skipping traffic - And much more! Have a watch/listen ✌ –––––––– SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261

Today we have Sheryl Rooth as our guest! This is episode 14 of the Wheels and Beyond Podcast, this time recorded over on the second level of the Covent Garden Market, here in London, Ontario, Canada. Sheryl's a lifelong resident of London, Canada, has been married to John for 35 years, and has two grown children. She's a Commissioner with the London Transit Commission (London's transit/bus commission) for the last ten years... and for the last five years, she’s been an avid cyclist! That means she gets around on two wheels for commuting, shopping, errands, doctor’s appointments, recreation, and just… everything. Pretty much! Every time she hops on her bike, she explores new parts of the city that are straight-up inaccessible from the seat of a car. She’s found a new freedom and confidence from cycling that she didn’t know she had, especially because arthritis in her knee has recently reduced her ability to walk. But pedalling a bicycle is such a low-impact activity, that it’s given freedom back to her! In this episode, we talk about a range of topics, including: - How she’s seen more of London in the last 5 years bicycling than she saw in the previous 56 years! - How bike lanes have changed the way she moves around the city - How the Thames Valley Parkway has been an AMAZING experience, - How ladies who are over 55 years of age should definitely try getting out on a bike! - And much more! So grab a drink, maybe some food, and listen in on our chat about active transportation :) –––––––– SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261

Welcome to Episode 13 of the Wheels and Beyond Podcast! Today we have Andrea Loewen joining us as our guest! She’s a co-owner of a family medicine practice, here in London, Canada and the family doctor recruiter for London and Middlesex County. Their family is also the first national Live Net Zero winner and have worked tirelessly over the last TWENTY YEARS to reduce their environmental impact as well as their dependency and reliance on cars. She and her husband have gone from commuting over 2-hours EACH PER DAY to downsizing to having it so that their family of FOUR now have one car between all of them. They now primarily rely on a combination of an electric cargo bike, another “regular-looking” ebike, acoustic bikes, transit passes, and cabs. So, buckle up for one of the shorter episodes that I’ve recorded so far because we were on a time crunch with a meeting fast approaching! But that just means that this conversation is absolutely JAM PACKED with awesome tidbits like: - How after moving from Northern Manitoba, to Calgary, Andrea really started cycling out of necessity to save money in order to buy a home. And then how each and every home after that brought her closer to her dream of driving as little as possible! - How she brings her helmet into stores so that people know she biked there, - How it’s important to dress accordingly when riding bicycles for utilitarian use, - And much more! –––––––– SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261

Nic's a Vancouver-based content creator with a focus on micromobility and urbanism who joined me for a chat while in London, Canada. Specifically in Springbank Park :) In this episode of the Wheels and Beyond Podcast, we chat about a bunch of stuff, but some include: - how Nic ended up moving from London to Vancouver, - getting around by bike in small towns versus big ones, - how London isn’t as bad as SOME PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET make it out to be - motornormativity - why it’s EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT to show up to council meetings and having your voice heard as someone who understands urbanism, at least a bit So have a watch/listen :) Nic's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nicthedoor –––––––– SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261

Hailey Tallman's never owned a car and that's shaped the way that she's built her life – from being able to travel the world without being tied down, to being able to buy her house. She does almost everything on her e-bike, and before that, her various bicycles :) In episode 11 of the Wheels and Beyond Podcast, we chat about SO many incredible bicycle-related topics, and even SOME topics I bet you've never heard of before! Things like… - her AMAZING artwork that focuses on envisioning the world that we want to live in, - how not owning a car allowed her to save up for a down payment on her house - how bicycles are OBVIOUSLY the best post-apocalyptic vehicles, - how our society victimizes women and cyclists in similar ways – think “but what were they wearing?!” and this is something she longs to change for the better through how she lives her daily life. - and more topics like, walkability, super blocks, a CRAZY bike theft story, safety, risk aversion, cycling pretentious, and much more! All-in-all, cycling gives Hailey the freedom, happiness, and peace of mind that getting around by car never could. So have a watch/listen :) –––––––– SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261 ⏰ APPROXIMATE TIMESTAMPS ⏰ 00:00 Introduction 01:21 The Sun is setting 01:40 Who is Hailey? 02:00 Hamilton Road Pedestrian Zone 03:00 Hailey's Art 04:40 Post-Apocalyptic Vehicles 101 05:40 Oil is powerful and we need to preserve it 09:00 The Future is Eclectic Not Electric 11:00 Ebikes expands your life 15:00 Safety on the TVP 22:00 What makes Hailey an outlier? 25:40 What Were You Wearing? - Cyclists VS Women 41:00 City staff are finally getting it 42:00 Biking community in London Canada 46:50 A joke and final thoughts

Matthew Tremblay is a mechanical engineering technologist and long-time friend, whose passion for all things transportation runs deep. On Episode 10 of the Wheels and Beyond podcast, we dive into Matt’s unique approach to reducing his carbon footprint, even as a car commuter. Matt shares his strategy of buying and restoring well-used vehicles, and his recent adventure in building his own ebike—which came along with his diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. We also take a trip down memory lane to 2018, when Matt was the first person I turned to while building my own electric assist bicycle. But can his love for cars coexist with active transportation and public transit? Tune in to hear us debate whether a car enthusiast can truly support a more sustainable transportation future. SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868 » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261

Holly Evans is a mom of four from London, Canada who swapped her luxury SUV for a cargo bike and never looked back. On Episode 9 of the Wheels and Beyond podcast, we talk about how she, her husband, and their daughters live a car-lite lifestyle, clocking in an impressive 10,000 kilometres over two years on their Urban Arrow cargo bike! From daily school runs to grocery hauls—with all four kids and even their dog in the cargo bucket—Holly shares how their family navigates the city by bike year-round. Tune in to hear how ditching the SUV has transformed their day-to-day life and sparked conversations about the freedom and feasibility of biking with kids. SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/bendurham SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Wheels and Beyond on: » Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheels-and-beyond/id1761207261 » Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2XgnlWWDihE1WFvEEC1868

Today, we have Sebastian on as our guest for Episode 8 of the Wheels and Beyond Podcast. We sat and chatted on a bench under one of the only bits of shade that we could find in White Oaks Park. Sebastian is an architectural technologist and urban planning graduate from Fanshawe College, here in London Canada and developed a passion for cycling at the start of the pandemic and hasn’t stopped ever since. And now he tries to do his 40-km round-trip commute to work as often as he can on his road bike. Having been able to live and travel to different places, he’s also got some interesting things to say about various aspects of everyday life in London, Montreal, Banff, and Bogotá, Columbia. So, in this episode, we cover topics like: - being a tourist in your own city, - park design, - street design, - being active, - bulldozing Montreal’s downtown, - building cities for people, not cars And far more than I can list here without it getting excessive! So have a listen :) –––––––– This episode's guest: Sebastian M Host: Ben Durham 🌟 Join my Patreon to get ad-free videos, behind-the-scenes content, and support the production of these podcasts: https://patreon.com/bendurham Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/bendurham.ca/ Check out https://bendurham.ca to ground yourself and see what I'm up to.