The Plain Bicycle Project team is in Europe, about to travel to Utrecht to load a third shipping container with second hand Dutch Bicycles bound for Canada when COVID-19 becomes a global health concern and international travel is brought to a g

Part 5 – Bicycles Are For Everyone

May 25th, 2020 42m 58s

Host Erin Riediger attends the launch of Round 2 of the Plain Bicycle Project. The project team discuss where they see the future of the project going, speak about transportation culture and identity and reflect on what Plain Bicycle means for

Part 4 - Not Your Typical Consumer Experience

May 17th, 2020 35m 24s

The Plain Bicycle Project team discusses the experience of getting the Dutch bicycles in to the hands of their customers in round 1. A few years later, The Plain Bicycle team launches round 2 of the project and host Erin Riediger follows their

Part 3 - A Plan In Motion

May 11th, 2020 35m 4s

Anders Swanson, Leigh Anne Parry and Torrin Swanson travel to the Netherlands to carry out the project. They soon run in to issues with their planned accommodations and locating a bike supply. Chris and Melissa Bruntlett of Modacity speak to th

Part 2 - This Is About Culture, Not Business

May 4th, 2020 42m 22s

Anders Swanson and Leigh Anne Parry explain how the idea for the Plain Bicycle project emerged from an artist residency trip to the Hague in 2015. Host Erin Riediger investigates what Plain Bicycle culture in the Netherlands is like and why it

Part 1 - I'm Not A Cyclist, I'm Just Riding My Bike

Apr 27th, 2020 37m 44s

Host Erin Riediger meets the team behind the Plain Bicycle Project and begins to unravel why importing everyday bicycle culture from the Netherlands is important. This episode describes Dutch bicycles and what sets them apart from bicycles in N

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