Podcasts about detroit bikes

The Today's Machining World team is on vacation this week. We will be back next week with our regular blog and podcast. We hope you enjoy this edition of Swarfblog from August 7th, 2019! Our guest on today's podcast is Zak Pashak, founder of Detroit Bikes, the largest bike frame manufacturer in the United States. […] The post Best of Swarfcast: Ep. 46 – Building Bikes in Detroit, With Zak Pashak first appeared on Today's Machining World.

Mike Rataj explains how he got Kwame Kilpatrick crony Bobby Ferguson out of prison. Then Zak Pashak of Detroit Bikes […]

In this episode, we spoke to Zak about his story coming from Canada, manufacturing in the United States, and the future of retail!

Zak Pashak of Detroit Bikes talks about the US mini bike boom. Chuck Marohn from Strong Towns and Diane have an in-depth conversation about what cities might look like going forward.

Sled Island founder and Detroit Bikes owner Zak Pashak sits down with Robert for a wide ranging discussion. To keep up with Zak or order a bike head over to www.detroitbikes.com

Today, we take you to Motor City. Once a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, Detroit, Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline since the 1960s. The drastic drop in population created acres of emptiness—vacant lots, abandoned buildings and food deserts.  Detroit’s art scene is known for countering negative growth with a resilient DIY attitude. While locals respect and sustain the history of innovation in the place they call home, the gritty urban landscape has begun to attract newcomers. Creatives from other cities are heading here to seek affordable studios and fresh opportunities.  Education is evolving along with Detroit’s cultural character. At Wayne State University, degree programs are increasingly geared toward next generation art and design. Students taking the course Design for Urban Mobility work with local entrepreneurs to solve design problems. Past clients have been Detroit Bikes and the Detroit Department of Transportation with the Rehab Institute of Michigan. In fall 2019, juniors and seniors majoring in Industrial Design join forces with Dazmonique Carr, founder of Deeply Rooted Produce. In our conversation with these emerging designers, we discovered firsthand the impact of an educational opportunity that invites students to make a difference. Responding to the call, they are enabling and supporting mobility throughout the city—with actionable ideas that promote self-sufficiency and health literacy. Wayne State—Designing for Urban Mobility is one of our 2020 Student Edition episodes. Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Photography Monica McGivern, except where noted Related Episodes: SAIC—Imagining Tomorrow, OCAD University—Curating in the Digital Realm Related Links: Industrial Design, Wayne State University, Deeply Rooted Produce Design for Urban Mobility is a course offered through Wayne State University’s James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History. Students taking the course consider a variety of questions of how products, spaces and experiences enable and support our mobility through urban space. Each semester—often through client-based projects—they explore four distinct but interrelated concepts of urban mobility: mobility and community, mobility and discovery, mobility and economic vitality, and mobility and social justice. Deeply Rooted Produce, founded by Dazmonique Carr, is a mobile market with a mission: to provide fresh fruits and vegetables sourced locally and support Detroit’s economy towards self-sufficiency and health literacy. The market’s purpose is to Increase access to healthy foods without sacrificing quality for affordability. DPR Promise: Provide H.E.L.P. (Health Education Literacy for People of Color)  Siobhan Gregory, a senior lecturer at Wayne University, an industrial designer and applied anthropologist, living and working in Detroit. Her research focuses on the progress of a more human-centered design practice. In the business sector, she pulls from anthropological theory and methods to help organizations. The Student Edition began in 2019, with visits to art schools and universities in the United States and Canada, where we began recording voices of the future. In 2020, we present the first episodes in our Student Edition—conversations about creativity with emerging makers and producers. Given opportunities to explore and experiment, students are discovering how they can shape the world they live in. What issues and ideas spark their creative impulse?

Zak Pashak - Take a walk with me down Fascination Street as I get to know Zak Pashak. Zak is the founder and CEO of Detroit Bikes. In this episode, we chat about some of his other ventures, which include a music venue and a bar in Canada. Zak tells us about the time a 2020 presidential candidate announced the campaign from the Detroit Bikes warehouse, plus we discuss why Zak started Detroit Bikes, and who the target demographic is for his bikes. If you have some time, I highly recommend you check out these gorgeous bicycles at DetroitBikes.comFollow Zak on social media:Twit: @ZakPashakInsta: @ZakPashakFB: Zak PashakDetroitBikes.com

On this weeks show we have… Zak Pashak of Detroit Bikes, he tells his story of how he fell in love with Detroit and started the biggest U.S. manufacturer of bicycles. And their mission “To encourage cycling by making an accessible, enjoyable bicycle while continuing Detroit’s legacy of quality manufacturing and design.” Building Bikes in Detroit - Detroit Bikes https://detroitbikes.com/blogs/detroit-bikes/building-bikes-in-detroit Chixdiggit: Greatest punk rock songwriters of all time (technically) – Daze Magazine City Cyclery – Sales, repair & service of any & all bikes http://citycyclery.ca/ The Man Behind the E.T. Bike | Momentum Mag   A series of tubesDetroitByCyle.com For the Grams @DetroitByCycle Face Space  Detroit By-Cycle Twitter Us @DetroitByCycle Survey Says!? https://survey.libsyn.com/detroitbycycle

Our guest on today’s podcast is Zak Pashak, founder of Detroit Bikes, the largest bike frame manufacturer in the United States. All bikes that the company sells are assembled in Detroit, and its high-end models have frames constructed of high quality American Chromoly steel. Zak lamented to us that he couldn’t find many companies in […]

The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast Episode 212 In Conversation With Danny Cowe and Zak Pashak Thursday, 25th April 2019 SPONSOR: Jenson USA • The Latest Gear. The Best Prices. All In One Place. HOST: Carlton Reid. GUESTS: Danny Cowe, Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland Zak Pashak, Detroit Bikes, USA TOPICS: Danny talks about plans for the world's first MTB Innovations Centre, soon to take shape in the Tweed Valley town of Innerleithen, a Mecca for mountain bikers. Zak discusses why he moved from Canada to found Detroit Bikes in Motown, USA.

Gary Lichtman, Director of Media Relations University of Detroit-Mercy has over recent years educated me not just about the University however about how many alumni are doing good things in Detroit. Like Tom Page a long time mutual friend. Each year, University of Detroit Mercy honors seven alumni — one from each of the colleges and schools at the University — with a Spirit of Detroit Mercy award. Tom is one of the honorees this year from the College of Liberal Arts & Education. These honorees are alumni who have marked themselves with distinction in their career and in their personal life. I thought it was a good time to catch up and talk with Tom. Tom and I talk story about his love of Detroit, his committment to give back to University of Detroit/Mercy and his family roots in Detroit. He shares having been with the Detroit Police Dept., and the challenge and success he experience of going to LAPD as a result of a layoff in Detroit. And it's obvious since he has come back to Detroit, he continues to do what he can to make a difference in Detroit and contribute to his University of Detroit/Mercy in gratitude for the education he received in many ways. . Meanwhile... this is a good read I think. I took it from the udmercy.edu/alumni page.... Thomas E. Page describes himself as a regular guy — “Call me Tom,” he says — but he’s much more than that. The former Detroit and Los Angeles police officer — now retired — has taken on the roles of ad hoc ambassador for the city of Detroit and promoter and devotee of bicycling in the city. These two activities keep him very busy. He is also a major booster of University of Detroit Mercy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1971 and a master’s degree in Urban Studies in ’76 from University of Detroit and he credits his education for his success. “One of the things I learned here is that education is much more than knowledge of facts,” Page said. “A person needs to be able to adapt to changes in technology, in society and to think for themselves. Things change so rapidly in society today that we have to look at things in a circular way, not a linear way, because one issue is affected by so many other things — it’s not just ‘this happened then that happened.’ ” That kind of global thinking, he said, made him a good police officer. His career in law enforcement began with the Detroit Police Department before he headed out to Los Angeles where he worked for about 20 years with the LAPD. It was there he began work on a new initiative, helping to create a standardized, effective approach to combat drug-impaired driving. “It became very important for police to know what they were dealing with in terms of drug use,” Page said. He helped create the first formal Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) curriculum for police officers and has taught drug influence recognition and criminal justice topics to police and prosecutors across the country and around the world. In his current role as a law enforcement consultant and DRE Emeritus, Page regularly provides expert testimony on the impairing effects of alcohol and legal and illegal drugs on driving in courts around the United States. Page has written extensively about techniques officers can use to determine what types of drugs a person may be under the influence of. After retiring from the LAPD as the Officer-in-Charge of the department’s Drug Recognition Expert program, Page realized it was time to put his Urban Studies degree to use and moved back to Detroit’s Midtown area. “I saw all the things that were happening in Detroit and started to get more involved, and I wanted to vote here,” he said. “I wanted a say in what was going on.” As he reacquainted himself with his hometown, he began hosting bicycling events around the city — he’d long been a bicycling enthusiast — and getting involved with neighborhood organizations, he found himself drawn back to Detroit Mercy’s McNichols Campus. He served on the Board of Advisors for the College of Liberal Arts & Education and attends many University-sponsored events. He even makes sure some of his bike tours make their way to campus, just to show it off to people who don’t know its beauty. He recently showed just how he feels about the University and its students by giving two significant gifts designed with the same goal in mind. “I’ve realized what’s important to me,” he said. “I’m secure; I don’t need more stuff. But what I could do is to create a legacy that gets carried on at this University, which I care deeply about.” One gift is designed to have an immediate impact on the current student experience. Each year for five years, Page has pledged to support a project designed to build an energized student body and campus. Last year, his gift paid for two bicycle repair stations on the McNichols campus; this year, the gift will be used to establish a bicycle loan program. Four bicycles, specially designed by Detroit Bikes in Detroit Mercy colors, will be available on campus for students to borrow. The details of this program are still a work in progress, but the bicycles will be ready to use this fall. This year’s gift also supports a dean-designated initiative in the College of Liberal Arts & Education as well as the women’s soccer team. In addition to Page’s generous five-year annual gift commitment, he has also included the University in his estate planning, leaving a significant and transformational gift to enhance student life on the McNichols Campus. “This gift is in support of the morality, the ethics, the very DNA of Detroit Mercy,” Page said. “This place serves a very wonderful purpose for our community and our society, and we need to support that.” “I want the students on campus to feel the same way about this University that I do,” Page said. “I want them to know there are alumni who care about them and care about this city.” “Tom Page’s significant gifts to University of Detroit Mercy are reflections of the love he has for his alma mater and the high value he has placed on the education he received,” said Detroit Mercy President Antoine M. Garibaldi, Ph.D. “His generous ways of supporting current and future students will undoubtedly inspire others to express appreciation for their successful and boundless careers.” Page acknowledges there is yet another motive for the gifts: To provide inspiration. “I still have many friends — many of them Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity brothers — I met at the University, and we’re at the stage in our lives where it’s time for some of them to give back to the school because of what it has meant to them,” Page said. “I want them to say, ‘If Tom Page can do this, I can do something.’ ” “I want my gifts to go to something that’s actually useful,” he said. “I want to help create a vibrant campus experience for the students.”

Hear how this young Canadian serial entrepreneur moved to Detroit, USA, to start the largest US-based bicycle manufacturer, Detroit Bikes.  Learn what drove him to start a bike company (it wasn’t primarily about bikes) and the personal and professional obstacles that he faced in his quest.  Listen as he describes how starting Detroit Bikes helped build his confidence and taught him key lessons about entrepreneurship. Leave a Rating & Review in iTunes for the Product Launch Rebel Podcast (http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1136273740)

Celebrating 25 Years of Fat Tire and our collaborations in Chicago and throughout. Join us for a celebration of collaboration featuring our work with Sick Fisher, a Chicago focused muralist and painter, the introduction of our 2016 New Belgium Cruiser manufactured in the US by Detroit Bikes and the official launch of our 25th Anniversary Beer Collaboration series, Fat Tire & Friends.

Host Quin Hoffman talks with the president of Detroit Bikes. Later, reporter Audrey Matusz sits down with MRULE, the multi-racial student organization on campus.

Host Quin Hoffman talks about the charity project, "Classroom for Benson," with the founders. Then he get the President of Detroit Bikes on the phone to talk about having a business in a city like Detroit. To wrap up the show he talks about sexual assault with Mara Abramson, a protest organizer, and Marie Rose and Bee Queener, the founders of Lansing V-day.

Host Quin Hoffman talks about the charity project, “Classroom for Benson,” with the founders. Then he get the President of Detroit Bikes on the phone to talk about having a business in a city like Detroit. To wrap up the show he talks about sexual assault with Mara Abramson, a protest organizer, and Marie Rose...