Bicycling fans share their reasons for riding, we explore “complete streets,” and we discuss safety and infrastructure issues for bicyclists and pedestrians – in this conversation recorded live on Bike to Work Day. This is from the first hour of our live stream from the Studio 809 Podcasts breakfast station at The Next Us on June 24, 2026.

See the video live stream replay here

We'll share hours 2 and 3 in future episodes.

GUESTS:

3:18 - Judy Pearring Davila, The Next Us

7:06 - Beth Roalstad, CEO of Homeward Pikes Peak, Host of a Place for everyone podcast, Co-host of Elevating Pikes Peak Women podcast

20:37 - Allen Beauchamp, ride leader, Community Engagement Manager, Trails and Open Space Coalition

24:41 - Nancy Henjum, Colorado Springs City Councilor

31:24 - Kimberly Gold, Colorado Springs City Councilor

36:34 - Torie Giffin, Founder of Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort, Host of Pedal the Springs podcast

42:06 - Nate Nassif, Manitou Springs City Councilor

44:54 - Konrad Schlarbaum, Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future, Colorado Green Business Network, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

LINKS:

Episode of Loving the Springs featuring Judy Pearring of The Next Us

Studio 809 Podcasts T-shirts

Colorado Springs Bike Map

Colorado Springs Bike to Work Day

Complete Streets

Thanks to These Sponsors of Our Breakfast Station:

Crumb & Kiln - 2140 Cooper Ave, Just west of I25 and North of Centennial

Starbucks - in front of COS City Hub – on Austin Bluffs Parkway just east of Academy

Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort

The Next Us – 525 N. Cascade

MENTIONED:

The Next Us

Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments

Melissa Marts

Aging with Altitude podcast

Pat Rigdon

Clean and Safe Program

Downtown Colorado Springs

Pikes Peak Women

Brenda Morrison

Mary Lou Makepeace

KOAA

Liv Wood

Motorless Morning in Garden of the Gods

UpaDowna Pedal Party

Manitou Spokes

Wednesday Women’s Ride

Peak Environment podcast

Legacy Plaza

Monument Valley Park

Mesa Springs Greenway

U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum

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Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

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