{"podcast":{"title":"Cycle World Podcast","slug":"cycle-world-podcast-6850183","podcast_index_feed_id":6850183,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f21971c8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.cycleworld.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/40517538/40517538-1708031741773-291ca4fee196.jpg","author":"Cycle World","episode_count":122,"summary":"Join Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer for the weekly Cycle World podcast for lively conversations about motorcycles and the people who build and ride them. Cameron’s legendary knowledge and ability to describe highly technical subjects in ways that are easy to understand allies with Hoyer’s massive testing background and hands-on work in the CW garage.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183"},"episode":{"title":"Are HYBRID Motorcycles Dumb?","slug":"are-hybrid-motorcycles-dumb","published_at":"2025-12-24T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/are-hybrid-motorcycles-dumb","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cycle-world/episodes/Are-HYBRID-Motorcycles-Dumb-e3colfm","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f21971c8/podcast/play/113054646/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-23%2F414924351-44100-2-065bbb1614211.mp3","summary":"Hybrid power can bring the best of electric and combustion power together, but does it make sense for motorcycles? Benda recently showed a hybrid prototype and Kawasaki has already taken the plunge. Technical Editor Kevin Cameron and Editor-in-Chief Mark Hoyer discuss hybrid power, including diesel electric trains and a Canadian company doing similar work on semi-trucks and a diesel hybrid pickup truck to retrofit your full-size bike hauler. Hop on and ride with us!","meta_description":"Hybrid power can bring the best of electric and combustion power together, but does it make sense for motorcycles? Benda recently showed a hybrid prototyp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3985,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/episodes/are-hybrid-motorcycles-dumb/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/are-hybrid-motorcycles-dumb.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}