Pedal Powered Talk Show
After watching a giant news van drive around Portland one day, I started thinking about whether it might be possible to build a television show into a bicycle.
I mentioned the idea to local bike builder, Phil Ross, and he started sketching up plans. A few months later, we launched the Pedal Powered Talk Show, an internet talk show built into a bicycle. With our unique vehicular format, we pedaled across cities, through herds of buffalo and even down class III white water rapids. Since 2012, I've hosted, produced and edited over 60 episodes of the show. Here’s a look at some of the places we’ve biked to:
In 2015, a crew from Oregon Public Broadcasting followed us around for a few days and produced this piece about the Pedal Powered Talk Show.
The Pedal Powered Talk Show ventured into branded content when we partnered with South Dakota Tourism on a series of episodes filmed at Mount Rushmore, Badlands National Park and other popular South Dakota destinations.
The Pedal Powered Talk Show collaborated with Keen Footwear on a series of "unique" episodes to celebrate the launch of their new "Uneek" shoe.
We also partnered with Visit Seattle for a series of episodes that we filmed at some of the city's beloved landmarks:
In honor of the Bike More Challenge, we produced a series of PSAs in conjunction with Street Trust, a bike advocacy organization in Portland, OR.
In June of 2021 we donated the talk show bike to the Oregon Historical Society, where it now resides in their permanent collection. But before the bike transformed into a museum artifact, we took it for one last ride: