Bike Talk with Dave: All things bike! Bikepacking, cyclocross, gravel, mountain bike, road & eventsExplicit

by Dave Mable

Bike Talk with Dave is a weekly podcast hosted by lifetime cyclist Dave Mable. It is a bicycle variety show, covering everything from racing to touring, from equipment to events. Follow Bike Talk with Dave on Instagram and Facebook or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Past episodes include USA Cycling CEO Branden Quirk, Emily Newsom, Peter Stetina, Iowa based road pro Matt Zimmer, Gravel pro Marisa Boaz, Mountain  ... 

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Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Ep. 103 Iowa Gravel Series: Ian Breitlow & Casey Ralston

    Ep. 103 Iowa Gravel Series: Ian Breitlow & Casey Ralston

    The 2024 Iowa Gravel Series (IGS) is a seven-race (six for the guys!), 5-month gravel race series featuring 100-or 50-K races in all corners of Iowa. IGS Board members Ian Breitlow and Casey Ralston brought the unofficial IGS mobile office to Clive, Iowa the week before Thanksgiving to record this episode - You can find information on the series at www.iowagravelseries.com The races begin on May 11 in Kalona and conclude on September 28 in Fairfield. The Sept. 21 Glenwood Superbloom is hosted by the Prairie Bloom Women's Cycling Club and is only open to women. This episode is brought to you by Tifosi Optics. Follow the Bike Talk with Dave podcast on Instagram and Facebook for late November (2023) sales on Tifosi sunglasses! Start your research at www.tifosioptics.com and be ready to order with some great sale codes!Consider supporting Bike Talk with Dave by rating, reviewing and sharing on your favorite podcast platform. We'd invite you to support the show financially at www.buymeacoffee.com or on Venmo @David-Mable. You'll receive a Bike Talk with Dave sticker! Bikeiowa.com is the online host of Bike Talk with Dave. Get your event listed on the extensive ride and race calendar for free! Create an account and add and edit your event to reach thousands of cyclists. Register for the core4 before Oct. 2 and get a 24% discount, and leave no surface untouched. New distances in 24 include a 20, 40, 60 or 100-mile option. Register at www.core4.bike Follow Bike Talk with Dave on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/biketalkwithdave/ and Facebook so you don't miss any of the fun, and you can now find every episode on your computer at www.biketalk.bike. And now available on YouTube on the Bike Talk with Dave YouTube channel!

  • Ep. 102 Kittie Weston-Knauer: BMX Legend

    Ep. 102 Kittie Weston-Knauer: BMX Legend

    If you haven't been in the U.S. BMX community for the past 35 years, you may not recognize the name of Kittie Weston-Knauer. But if you HAVE been manualing the rollers or clearing the step-ups on the four straights of a BMX track, you probably just call her Miss Kittie! Suffice it to say that, even if you haven't been tail-whipping the table-tops, you might have seen a thing or two on this BMX Grandmother as she's been featured in the news around the world: New York Times, US News and World Report, NPR, Bicycling Magazine and about every local paper or TV station within 50-miles of a BMX track! What a treat to take a tour of her home-town BMX track - 80-35 BMX in Des Moines, Iowa on a warm November night and dive deep into what makes this mother, grandmother, teacher and high school principal line up at the gate!This episode is brought to you by Tifosi Optics. Follow the Bike Talk with Dave podcast on Instagram and Facebook for late November (2023) sales on Tifosi sunglasses! Start your research at www.tifosioptics.com and be ready to order with some great sale codes!Consider supporting Bike Talk with Dave by rating, reviewing and sharing on your favorite podcast platform. We'd invite you to support the show financially at www.buymeacoffee.com or on Venmo @David-Mable. You'll receive a Bike Talk with Dave sticker! Bikeiowa.com is the online host of Bike Talk with Dave. Get your event listed on the extensive ride and race calendar for free! Create an account and add and edit your event to reach thousands of cyclists. Register for the core4 before Oct. 2 and get a 24% discount, and leave no surface untouched. New distances in 24 include a 20, 40, 60 or 100-mile option. Register at www.core4.bike Follow Bike Talk with Dave on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/biketalkwithdave/ and Facebook so you don't miss any of the fun, and you can now find every episode on your computer at www.biketalk.bike. And now available on YouTube on the Bike Talk with Dave YouTube channel!

  • Ep. 101 Chase Wark, Gravel Pro and Cycling Entrepreneur

    Ep. 101 Chase Wark, Gravel Pro and Cycling Entrepreneur

    A gravel pro on the Mazda-Lauf Cycling Team, Chase Wark endured his way to the lead group of three at the wet 2023 Garmin Gravel Worlds, finishing second to three-time winner John Borstelmann. In addition to being fast on gravel, the ambitious and creative Minnesotan runs his cycling-related business from his SW Minnesota (read: Driftless region) home - which includes coaching, two gravel events and a cycing-friendly Air B&B. Connect with him at www.warkcyclingservices.com or on instagram at @chasethebiker. Consider supporting Bike Talk with Dave by rating, reviewing and sharing on your favorite podcast platform. We'd invite you to support the show financially at www.buymeacoffee.com or on Venmo @David-Mable. You'll receive a Bike Talk with Dave sticker! Bikeiowa.com is the online host of Bike Talk with Dave. Get your event listed on the extensive ride and race calendar for free! Create an account and add and edit your event to reach thousands of cyclists. Register for the core4 before Oct. 2 and get a 24% discount, and leave no surface untouched. New distances in 24 include a 20, 40, 60 or 100-mile option. Register at www.core4.bike Follow Bike Talk with Dave on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/biketalkwithdave/ and Facebook so you don't miss any of the fun, and you can now find every episode on your computer at www.biketalk.bike. And now available on YouTube on the Bike Talk with Dave YouTube channel!

  • Ep. 100 Torbjorn Roed, BWR & Big Sugar Champ!

    Ep. 100 Torbjorn Roed, BWR & Big Sugar Champ!

    Torbjorn Roed followed his brother to the U.S. from Norway to go to school at Colorado Mesa University - and pursue, not just a degree, but also a career in cycling. While in college he landed a spot on one of the top amateur teams in the U.S. Above and Beyond Cancer - or ABC. It was this summer of 2023, while riding with ABC that he not only wore the leaders jersey at the Tour of the Gila, but also won the Kansas Belgian Waffle Ride and then took on the 35 pros in the Lifetime Grand Prix and won the final Lifetime GP event in Bentonville - the Big Sugar gravel race in October! He’s looking forward to some time off now, but also to next year as he’s landed a spot on one of the top domestic professional teams Project Echelon! Follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/torbjornroed/Consider supporting Bike Talk with Dave by rating, reviewing and sharing on your favorite podcast platform. We'd invite you to support the show financially at www.buymeacoffee.com or on Venmo @David-Mable. You'll receive a Bike Talk with Dave sticker! Bikeiowa.com is the online host of Bike Talk with Dave. Get your event listed on the extensive ride and race calendar for free! Create an account and add and edit your event to reach thousands of cyclists. Register for the core4 before Oct. 2 and get a 24% discount, and leave no surface untouched. New distances in 24 include a 20, 40, 60 or 100-mile option. Register at www.core4.bike Follow Bike Talk with Dave on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/biketalkwithdave/ and Facebook so you don't miss any of the fun, and you can now find every episode on your computer at www.biketalk.bike. And now available on YouTube on the Bike Talk with Dave YouTube channel!

  • Ep. 99 Wendy Hermans, Father of World Tour rider Quinten Hermans

    Ep. 99 Wendy Hermans, Father of World Tour rider Quinten Hermans

    Traveling with his son, Quinten Hermans to the three-round UCI Cyclocross World Cups in the U.S. in 2021, Wendy Hermans took time to talk with Dave about how his son rose to the top of the World Cyclocross stage at the Jingle Cross World Cup. Since that time, Quinten has migrated to road racing with Mattiew van der Poel on the Alpecin-Deceuninck UCI World Tour Team.