Join Frank and Mere for a delightful conversation with Echelon Rider, Strider, Rower, and Fitpasser, Kami Young! Learn valuable tips for outdoor riding and bike commuting, hear how Kami and her family made history in the best way, and find out Buddy's origin story. We delve into a major health issue that Kami faced and her experiences with all that was involved including an Echelon comeback.

After the interview, Frank and Mere discuss pupdates and TV, along with an enthralling tale about a Donut Run!

Thanks for listening!

Frank Truong and Meredith Willis head up this new season of the podcast. We're bringing new segments including pupdates and have a list of Echelon community, instructors, and team members a mile long to interview.

This episode reminds you a little bit about who we are (Frank & Mere) and why we're doing this (we're mad for all things Echelon).

Many thanks to Sheldon Young for re-recording our amazing theme song that he wrote, played, and sang and to Abe Kelledjian for helping us get up and running and assisting us with publishing!

This podcast is truly a team effort and YOU the community are part of that team! Thank you for joinging us on this amazing journey and we'll try to keep the workout words to a minimum!

Recorded June 20, 2024

***NOTE: The s-bomb is dropped a couple of times during this episode***

Welcome to the last episode before our summer hiatus! The podcast will resume September 2nd, 2024.

In this episode......

[0:45] Meredith's bidding doers

[4:00] The 4th of July....in Canada, and, fireworks and sparklers

[10:00] Sharkside of the Moon and other things we're watching/have watched

[15:46] Echelon cruise and swimming with pigs

[16:27] Hockey update...or not

[17:10] Echelon news (upcoming rides)

[17:56] Abe gets a package in the mail

[27:38] Some sad news

[29:44] Meredith found someone to do her bidding

[35:19] Special correspondent Kelli Quinn (Pig Mom) reporting from the Spartan race

[47:04] Did You Know

Record date - June 14, 2024

Meredith is back from Italy and we start this episode with a recap of her amazing trip to Firenze (Florence)!

[9:19] - Abe recaps his year-end show

[13:15] - Highlight of Meredith's trip

[17:07] - Uncrustables; or as Abe called them, Unrustables

[22:11] - Abe does the Foster Threshold Tal kTest

[33:22] - Echelon News

[41:09] - Fun LB names

[47:10] - Shoutouts

[53:45] - Did You Know preamble

[55:23] - Actual Did You Know

Recorded May 30, 2024

Well, it's finally happened. The showdown you've all been waiting (maybe?) for! After weeks, nay months, of Abe calling his clock "institutional", Matthew Ogus joins the podcast to set the record straight. Will Abe get his comeuppance, or will there be "peace" between our conflicted Canadians? And what do cheese knives, horseradish, and Wapakoneta, Ohio, have to do with anything? Find out on this episode of the Bike That Goes Nowhere podcast!

In this week's episode, we chat with Rick Pialet - a retired USAF and United Airlines pilot . Shortly after trading in his wings for spin shoes, Rick came face to face with a life changing event - long COVID. Meredith and Abe chat with Rick about this long road to recovery, and his experiences as a pilot.

Happy Memorial Day to our American friends!

In this episode, Meredith recaps her visit to The Flying Pig Bed 'n Breakfast*, and all the fun things she did while in Missouri. We have some cruise news, as well as our usual segments to round out this episode.

00:55 Meredith thinks she's a princess!

2:25 Meredith recaps her Missouri trip

7:59 Aquarium yoga

10:36 Watcha listenin' to?

14:40 Hillbilly Handfishin' (and yes - we googled it)

19:04 Color Guard, Harry Potter, and Meredith

22:23 Is Abe a robot?

24:06 Echelon news - Who's cruisin' who?

28:47 Meredith, the world traveller

34:33 More Echelon news

37:35 Do you chunk or chuck?

40:26 Fun LB names

46:24 Shoutouts

51:10 Did You Know?

*Disclaimer - the Flying Pig Bed 'n Breakfast is not an actual Bed 'n Breakfast

Welcome to this special 100th episode of the Bike That Goes Nowhere podcast! To help us celebrate this milestone, Alex Zelin (Hufflepuffle), and Kelli Quinn (Pig Mom) join us for some "pre-arranged by Meredith" shenanigans who is recording from the Flying Pig Bed and Breakfast in Missouri!

[3:15] Meet Hoss

[7:40] Who is going on the Margaritaville cruise?

[11:00] "Relics" - Antiquing with Alex, Kelli, and Meredith

[14:59] Putting our special guests to work

[15:37] Abe flips the tables on Meredith on the Q&A which includes questions like "Who would win in a bar fight if Meredith and Abe fought each other", and "What is your Roman Empire"

[37:55] Alex's OD adventures with her cat stroller

[40:56] What is Kelli training for?

[42:13] Spring into Action challenge

[43:00] Watcha watchin'/readin'?

[48:41] Fun LB names

[53:45] Shoutouts

[1:00:44] Did You Know

*The show Abe was referencing at the end is "The Boy from Oz"