{"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":"Hello Sparky! History of Ignition, Spark! Open Flame! Hot Tube! What?!","slug":"hello-sparky-history-of-ignition-spark-open-flame-hot-tube-what","published_at":"2026-02-11T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/hello-sparky-history-of-ignition-spark-open-flame-hot-tube-what","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cycle-world/episodes/Hello-Sparky--History-of-Ignition--Spark--Open-Flame--Hot-Tube--What-e3eu79n","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f21971c8/podcast/play/115333879/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-11%2F417875244-44100-2-20f017610dc5e.mp3","summary":"We just want to light the fire, that's it! Kevin and Mark dive into all the different ways internal combustion engine builders have found to light the combustible air/fuel mixture. There has been spark, open flames(!), a thing called "hot tube" and more. Even compression can light off the charge, and we'll talk about that too. From magnetos to coil and points to fully electronic coil-on-plug ignitions with upward of 60,000 volts, we try to cover it all. Join us for the latest Cycle World podcast!","meta_description":"We just want to light the fire, that's it! Kevin and Mark dive into all the different ways internal combustion engine builders have found to light the com…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4532,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cycle-world-podcast-6850183/episodes/hello-sparky-history-of-ignition-spark-open-flame-hot-tube-what/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/hello-sparky-history-of-ignition-spark-open-flame-hot-tube-what.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}