Welcome to the working athlete podcast. On the occasion of 150th episode on the podcast, I thought I'd share an interview I have done with Bangalore's cycling mayor and urban mobility activist Sathya Sankaran and his cohost Knerav Kodolikar. Sathya was on this podcast talking about cycling activism and policy among other things in episode #52. He recently started a podcast called Oorulabs where he addresses various issues related to urban mobility. In this episode we talk about where we were 10 years ago w.r.t cycling, where we are currently and where we can go in the next 10 years an beyond. We talked about what we can do to improve cycling culture in general in India. It was fun. I hope you enjoy it. ===From OoruLabs=== @bikeyvenky talks to us about how India can produce top class cyclist who can compete in events like the Tour de France or Giro de Italia, which is considered the top events in cycling. What are the attitudes and misconceptions around cycling. What is scale, how do we define scale, how do we create leagues and how all this ties down to culture of cycling. How do we compare against countries in Europe like Netherlands or Belgium. Of course we talk about how all this rubs off on urban cycling and transform cities. Welcome to the OoruLabs podcast (https://podcast.oorulabs.com). Ever complained how bad our cities are? How bad your commute is? You’ll get to hear from people who are working to solve these problems. This is your weekly soapbox for Urban Sustainability with Sathya Sankaran and his co-host for this show Knerav Kodolikar Timecodes 00:00 - Intro 04:00 - Decade to TdF 04:50 - The cycling circuit 11:00 - The gateway drug 16:46 - Scaling the culture 21:40 - City celebration with cycling events 26:45 - Cycling league overkill? 32:32 - How to find talent? 42:18 - Racing to commuting 44:48 - The challenges in the city 46:34 - The safer network 47:30 - The attitudes 50:30 - Concluding thoughts ------------ Working Athlete podcast with Bikey Venky - / @bikeyvenky Sathya Sankaran on the Working Athlete Podcast : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzO8gguhy8 Tour de France - https://www.letour.fr/en/ Bangalore Bicycling Championships - BBCh.in Bangalore Amateur Racing - https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreAmateurRacing/ Tour of Nilgiris - https://www.tourofnilgiris.com/ Tour of Karnataka - https://tourofkarnataka.com/ Great Malnad Challenge - https://www.greatmalnadchallenge.in/ Bangalore Randonneurs - https://www.audaxindia.in/bangalore-randonneurs-bangalore-c-9 SMN Network map - https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1heZETc7zV2KKllSsMWxMShygJIvvMRE&entry=yt&ll=12.971001759254378%2C77.57444622842634&z=12 write to [email protected] if you would like to contribute

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