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Across Europe by Bike Updated: 2012-02-13 22:24:32 Description: Andrew Sykes tells of his six week summer journey from his home in Reading to the southern tip of Puglia, in Italy, along the Eurovelo 5 long-distance cycle route, and reads from Good Vibrations, the book he's written about the trip. Jen and Jack tal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Londoners On Bikes…with Votes! Updated: 2012-02-06 20:52:44 Description: In the studio with Stephen Taylor and Katherine Hibbert of Londoners On Bikes a new group of London cyclists who want to put cycling front and centre in the London Mayoral elections this May. Plus we hear about Ellie Carey, the 22 year old woman who ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Obree Way Updated: 2012-01-31 11:36:15 Description: Earlier this month, Graeme Obree was at Look Mum No Hands! for the London launch of The Obree Way, a training manual for cyclists. Obree is a two time individual pursuit world champion, has twice broken the world hour record … Continue reading ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Obree Way Updated: 2012-01-31 09:41:40 Description: Earlier this month, Graeme Obree was at Look Mum No Hands! for the London launch of his new training manual for cyclists. Obree is a two time individual pursuit world champion, has twice broken the world hour record and is multiple winner of Britis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Down at the London Bike Show Updated: 2012-01-23 20:12:12 Description: Jack goes down to the London Bike Show, an annual fair of bicycles and cycling paraphernalia. He eschews the latest electronic gear systems in search of novel products made by interesting people. The following products are featured on the show: ̷...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Lost Cyclist with David Herlihy Updated: 2012-01-16 20:14:10 Description: In 1892 a young accountant from Pittsburg, USA, quit his job and set off to cycle solo around the world. Frank Lenz rode a Rover Safety Bicycle, a revolutionary new design that would soon consign the traditional high wheeler – … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Looking back at 2011 and ahead to 2012 Updated: 2011-12-13 13:03:54 Description: Listeners write in with recollections of their favourite ride of 2011 and most exciting plans for riding in 2012. Plus clothing designer Amy Fleuriot tells of her new Cyclodelic boutique on Columbia Road and shows a few of the her … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading About Riding Updated: 2011-12-07 12:36:22 Description: A pre-Christmas books special is now a firmly entrenched tradition on The Bike Show. This year’s edition covers more literary ground than ever before. Amateur bicycle librarians Tim Dawson of The Sunday Times and Carlton Reid of Bike Hub join &...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Another day for you and me in Carradice Updated: 2011-11-28 20:29:26 Description: Jack travels over the Yorkshire moors to Nelson, Lancashire to visit one of the oldest and most venerable companies in British cycling. Cotton mill worker Wilf Carradice began producing his indestructible canvas saddlebags in the 1930s and in 2011 sa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is riding a bike as easy as riding a bike? Updated: 2011-11-23 16:18:27 Description: Jen Kerrison takes over the show for a week while Jack is away in Yorkshire, riding up hill and down dale. Jen asks if cycle training is necessary for adult cyclists. Or is riding a bike just like riding a … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Campaigning for a Civilised Cycling City Updated: 2011-11-14 23:25:04 Description: In the studio is Mustafa Arif, Chair of Campaigns at the 11,000 strong London Cycling Campaign. We look back at the weekend’s Tour Du Danger, a bicycle ride around ten of the most hazardous junctions for cyclists in London and … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is London Air Killing Us? Updated: 2011-11-07 20:45:08 Description: Some people say that air pollution in big cities like London is a public health emergency, contributing to 4,300 premature deaths a year. But nobody seems to talk about it. Is the Government doing anything to deal with it? Are … Continue readin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Competitive Impulse Updated: 2011-10-31 20:07:07 Description: Why do some people like to race their bicycles? We discuss the world of amateur bicycle racing with Ian Cleverly, deputy editor of Rouleur magazine and Lydia Boylan (pictured, above) of the Look Mum No Hands! race team and current … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Team GB rules the track and Patrick Field tells it like it is Updated: 2011-10-25 10:46:41 Description: In this week’s show, Jack attempts to feign interest in the European track cycling championships and Jen gets her geography all confused. Patrick Field saves the day with an inspirational talk at the Intelligence Squared cycling festival (view ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paris-Brest-Paris: part two Updated: 2011-10-18 12:11:18 Description: Following on from last week’s documentary feature by Kieron Yates is a studio discussion of Paris-Brest-Paris, the world’s most venerable long distance bicycle race. In the studio are PBP veterans Judith Swallow and Dave Minter, and PBP d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paris-Brest-Paris: part one Updated: 2011-10-10 23:08:33 Description: The 1200km Paris-Brest et retour was first raced in 1891 and is the oldest bicycle race still in existence, currently held as a brevet de randonneur every four years. Kieron Yates shares the agony and ecstasy of his second outing … Continue rea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jah Tweed Updated: 2011-10-05 13:03:26 Description: Jen meets Tim Jacques, one of the film-makers at this year’s Bicycle Film Festival, whose film “Peace and Lovely Tailoring” combines Rastafari, cycling and tweed clothing – a surefire winner here at The Bike Show. And we hear ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Season opener: Time Travelling Updated: 2011-09-26 19:23:44 Description: As Mark Cavendish wins the world championship road race for Britain for the first time since 1965, we’re back in the saddle for a new season. On this week’s show, a trip back in time. Blue Door Bicycles is a … Continue reading ͛...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blackfriars and Beyond Updated: 2011-08-08 16:41:48 Description: The ‘Battle for Blackfriars’ has united London cyclists and pedestrians in opposition to plans by the Mayor of London for an ‘urban motorway’ on a London bridge that is heavily used by cyclists yet has seen two fatalities in t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The 2011 Tour de France: a modern classic? Updated: 2011-07-27 16:32:22 Description: Looking back at the this year’s thrilling Tour de France are Lionel Birnie of Cycle Sport magazine and Alex Murray, London cyclist, amateur road racer and blogger at chasingwheels.com. Image by Neil Stevens, part of a series of illustrations fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dunwich Dynamo Redux Updated: 2011-07-18 19:20:17 Description: From here: …to here: The 2011 edition of the Dunwich Dynamo, the cult mass participation night ride from London to the Suffolk Coast, as experienced by listeners of The Bike Show. Thanks to everyone who recorded their audio snippets. Put …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All Night, All Right: Dunwich Dynamo 2011 Preview Updated: 2011-07-12 12:31:16 Description: In its 19th edition this year, the Dunwich Dynamo is London’s greatest mass participation ride – bar none. In the studio are Patrick Field, who first conceived the ride and two London cyclists planning to do just a little bit … Continue...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Road Danger Reduction with Dr Robert Davis Updated: 2011-07-05 14:30:34 Description: Each year on the roads of this country upwards of 2,000 people are killed and many tens of thousands more are injured in road crashes. The perception of danger is one of the most common reasons people have for not … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Midsummer Misadventure with Dixe Wills (and a podcast bonus) Updated: 2011-06-27 22:15:23 Description: On Midsummer’s Night Dixe Wills, travel writer and author of a new book on Britain’s tiny campsites, guides us on a ride from central London up the Lea Valley to a wild camping spot. Various pitfalls ensure that little goes … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Keep the Red Stuff In Updated: 2011-06-20 22:04:38 Description: In the studio is Bike Show regular ‘Buffalo’ Bill Chidley, who brings news of London’s burgeoning bicycle polo scene (note imminent rebranding as ‘urban bike hammer ball’). The London Open 2011 is on 30-31st July. Steve ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fix Your Own Bike Updated: 2011-06-14 13:01:30 Description: Community bike workshops are a beautiful idea. A place where anyone can learn the basics of bicycle repair by doing it for themselves with the help of volunteer mechanics – and have access to specialist bicycle tools. A stone’s throw R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Millar’s Tale Updated: 2011-06-06 19:09:44 Description: David Millar, the British road racer, one of the best riders in his generation, had it all. His first day of racing in the Tour De France brought him an impressive stage victory over Lance Armstrong and he was instantly … Continue reading ͛...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rob Penn on Looking for the Perfect Bike Updated: 2011-05-27 14:38:10 Description: Cyclist, journalist and author Rob Penn travelled the world to put together his perfect bicycle. We talk about how his journey of discovery sheds light on the history of the bicycle and the contribution of bicycle technology to modern life. … C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Green Mayor? On the Campaign Trail with Jenny Jones Updated: 2011-05-17 10:37:39 Description: Jenny Jones is a member of the London Assembly and is standing as the Green Party’s candidate in the 2012 London Mayoral elections. We ride from her home in Walworth/Peckham borders to City Hall and discuss cycling, liveable cities and … ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Life and Times of the Cycling Jersey Updated: 2011-05-10 10:25:51 Description: The summer season kicks of with an entertaining and borderline nerdy discussion of the past, present and future of the cycling jersey. From Bianchi’s 1950s classic celeste blue to Mapei pushed the dye sublimation process to its limits and divid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD End of Season: The Best Bits, 2008-2010 Updated: 2011-02-21 13:16:48 Description: The final show of the winter season is a pleasurable romp through some of the best bits of the last three years of bicycle broadcasting. Featuring, in no particular order: Alistair Humphreys, Mark Miodownik, Cynthia Barlow, Klaus Bondam, Daniel Start...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shame and Scandal in Professional Cycling Updated: 2011-02-08 17:53:42 Description: Crusading, anti-doping sports journalist Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly gives his views on the latest revelations about professional cycling. You can read the 30,000-word transcript of Paul Kimmage’s interview with Floyd Landis at the NY Veloc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Up the ‘Uts: The Slow Death (and Rebirth?) of the British Cycling Club Updated: 2011-02-01 15:08:16 Description: Kieron Yates‘s documentary feature on the countryside huts of the 32nd Association of North London cycle clubs sparks a discussion on the demise of the traditional cycling club and the possibilities for renaissance. With Nigel Wood, Chairman of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bike Blogging with Mark Ames of ibikelondon / Jan Gehl / Eric Pickles MP Updated: 2011-01-24 22:56:13 Description: Mark Ames writes ibikelondon, one of the best of London’s blossoming bike blogs. We discuss the city planning ideas of Jan Gehl, the intellectual godfather of Copenhagenization. We hear what British Cabinet minister Eric Pickles MP has to say a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inside the 2012 Olympic Velodrome Updated: 2011-01-18 17:51:27 Description: On the day before the completion of the construction phase of London’s new 6,000-seat velodrome on the 2012 Olympic site, we are treated to a sneak peek. Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects presents the design vision and explains how he … C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bart Kyzar: Man on a Mission Updated: 2011-01-11 16:41:39 Description: The messenger bag is one of the defining elements of the “new urban bike culture” and Bart Kyzar has been making bombproof bags for bicyclists since the mid-1990s, first with Chrome and now with Mission Workshop, based in San Francisco. &...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Christmas Stocking: Apprenticeships, L’Eroica and MyBikeLane.com Updated: 2010-12-14 14:26:51 Description: In the last show before Christmas, Jacqui Shannon reports on new opportunities for paid bike mechanic apprenticeships and Matt Sparkes files a report from Italy on L’Eroica, the annual vintage cyclosportive (pictured, left). Civic hackers Greg ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Four Great Lives in Cycling: Kuklos, Robinson, Mustoe, Fignon Updated: 2010-12-07 13:49:47 Description: Studio discussion of four great lives in cycling: Kuklos, the prolific journalist who documented British cycling scene in the first half of the twentieth century; Brian Robinson (pictured, above), the first Brit to win stages in the Tour de France; &...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Season opener: Knutsford Great Race and all the fun of the Cycle Show 2010 Updated: 2010-11-30 11:54:19 Description: Window shopping at the Cycle Show 2010 taking in the latest offerings from Brooks (saddles), Bisignals (lights), Bike Dock (storage), Carradice (bags), Schmidt Maschinenbau (dynamo lights) and the Moulton Bicycle Company. Matt Sparkes reports from th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ron Cooper on Ron Cooper Updated: 2010-08-04 00:02:12 Description: Ron Cooper is a legend in frame-building. He started as a fifteen-year-old apprentice with A.S. Gillott, and his frames have come to define the very best of the British lightweight style. He talks about the early days learning from master … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Looking back at Le Tour and ahead to ‘Bicycle Thieves’ Updated: 2010-07-27 18:32:32 Description: Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly shares his best moments of this year’s sensational Tour De France. Plus we look ahead to Bicycle Thieves, which combines theatre and BMXing on the streets of London, as part of the InTransit festival. Book …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Talking Le Tour with Paul Fournel Updated: 2010-07-21 09:26:39 Description: An extended, hour long edition of the show featuring French writer, poet, cyclist and cultural ambassador Paul Fournel (pictured). We stroll from the French House in Soho to the Rapha Cycle Club in Clerkenwell, to visit an exhibition of a … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gavin Turk’s ‘Les Bikes du Bois Rond’ Updated: 2010-07-14 14:24:01 Description: Tim Dawson joins artist Gavin Turk on the first of two rides in the East Anglian countryside. Plus a detailed look at the Mayor of London’s new cycle hire bikes, with Transport for London’s Gary McGowan, technical adviser to the … C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Un Tour de France de Londres with Stephen Bayley Updated: 2010-07-08 11:34:43 Description: As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, Stephen Bayley leads a ride around the best of French architecture, art and design to be found on the streets of London. Stephen Bayley is the Observer’s architecture and design crit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Now We Are Six (part one) Updated: 2010-06-22 17:48:04 Description: It’s time to blow out the candles on The Bike Show’s great big carbo-loaded birthday cake. 6 years old! To mark the occasion this week’s show features some of the more memorable moments from the first three years of experimental ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lock it or lose it Updated: 2010-06-16 16:53:39 Description: Talking bicycle security with author and blogger Rob Ainsley and Anthony Lau, architect and designer of the excellent Cycle Hoop that cheaply converts street furniture into cycle racks. Anthony is also soon to unveil a new car-shaped bicycle storage ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Journey Into Tranquility Updated: 2010-06-08 12:46:10 Description: Sustrans is the sustainable transportation charity and lobby group that pioneered the national cycle network. It is also one of the UK’s biggest commissioners of public art. Today’s show is devoted to one of Sustrans’s new Prospecti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Life On Two Wheels Updated: 2010-06-02 11:41:02 Description: This week, a guest production by Stuart Watt. Life’s race from childhood to old age, as told by those who live it on two wheels. Original music by Chris Annetts. If you’d like to contribute material to The Bike Show, … Continue read...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Giro d’Italia at Look Mum No Hands Updated: 2010-05-25 09:19:33 Description: As the Giro d’Italia enters its third week, we discuss Italy’s great stage race with Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly, in an experimental live broadcast from Look Mum No Hands, London’s newest and best cycle-cafe. Sam Humpheson shows...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization? Updated: 2010-05-18 09:46:35 Description: A long, hard look at the Mayor of London’s plans for 12 cycle superhighways – bike routes from the outer boroughs along London’s main arterial roads. With Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson’s top transport adviser, Rob Ainsley of t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Season opener: Berlin, bikes & public art, Dunwich Dynamo Updated: 2010-05-10 17:44:43 Description: Can London ever be as good a cycling city as Berlin? Helen Pidd of the Guardian and Matt Tempest give their views. Artist Mila Lipowicz talks about East London Local(Eyes): an interactive video installation that recreates the feeling of riding …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lorries/HGVs/LGVs killing cyclists: an appeal to London listeners Updated: 2010-03-22 18:00:12 Description: Last Thursday, on what felt like a warm, sunny first day of Spring, I was witness to the immediate aftermath of a collision involving a cyclist and a 32 tonne articulated lorry. It was a truly horrible, chilling sight. The … Continue reading &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Racing Year with Lionel Birnie Updated: 2010-02-17 11:05:06 Description: In an off-season podcast-only extended episode, Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly joins me to talk about the year ahead in professional road racing. We talk about the season-openers in the Gulf, the Monuments and Cobbled Classics and of course the R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Do It Yourself Updated: 2010-01-26 17:14:40 Description: David Kitchen, aka Velocio, set up the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum almost three years ago. In a short time it has spawned an active and inventive cycling community and in the process the forum has grown to … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD If the bike fits… Updated: 2010-01-19 10:18:58 Description: Following on from last week’s show on well-being, we look at the importance of getting a good fit between rider and machine. Scherritt Knoesen of The Bike Whisperer, is a leading London-based bike fitter. We talk geometry, contact points and &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Well-being Updated: 2010-01-12 15:34:56 Description: January is the perfect month to take a closer look at how to stay feeling good on the bike. In the studio to share their expertise are Michael Crebbin, a sports physio specialising in cycling-related problems, and Rebecca Bogue who … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jumble Jumble Updated: 2010-01-04 19:41:29 Description: It’s the tenth day of Christmas and this week’s show is like a Christmas stocking with bulges in all the right places. Dr Steve Fabes is about to set off on a four and a half year cycle ride around … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Red light means go (or does it?) Updated: 2009-12-15 15:44:39 Description: Should cyclists stop at red lights? Why do we feel such a strong urge to keep rolling? Should our behavior be guided by the law of the land or the laws of common courtesy? What would Isaac Newton and Thomas … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading and riding: Christmas books special Updated: 2009-12-08 14:30:31 Description: Tim Dawson, cycling columnist for the Sunday Times, runs the Cycling Books website, the most compendious review website for cycling books. He joins me in the studio to discuss the literature of cycling, from Tour de France to cycle touring. … C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part two) Updated: 2009-11-30 21:44:57 Description: The cycle camping tour continues into the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, through Vermont and into Massachusetts. Struggles with thunderstorms and flying insects and a visit to the Crane paper mill where US dollar bills are made. Picture ab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part one) Updated: 2009-11-23 20:34:53 Description: The first of two features on a north American cycle tour undertaken over the summer. Starting in cycle-friendly Montreal and Quebec’s routes vertes and camping on the shores of Lake Champlain, this episode ends with a mildly disturbing encounte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics Updated: 2009-11-16 22:34:38 Description: This week’s show looks at the chronic lack of bicycle mechanics with the Ninon Asuni of Bicycle Workshop. Ninon founded Bicycle Workshop nearly thirty years ago after deciding she’d had enough of working as a librarian. She’s now am...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY) Updated: 2009-11-09 20:07:03 Description: The Bike Show moves into advocacy mode this week with guest in the studio Debra Rolfe, Campaigns Director of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC), Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 60,000+ members. Debra is spearheading the CTC̵...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Season Opener: Childhood Daze Updated: 2009-10-26 20:18:10 Description: A youthful feel to this season opener with a visit to Lockleaze Primary School in Bristol, one of an number of Sustrans ‘Bike It’ schools acros the country. Plus childhood memories from Paul Fournel, reading from Need for the Bike* …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cycle Chic Updated: 2009-08-03 19:00:07 Description: Riding with Amy Fleuriot, a young British fashion designer who’s Cyclodelic range of clothing and accessories is offering women a more stylish alternative to the typically drab clothing sold to cyclists. This is the final show in the current se...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Le Tour Redux Updated: 2009-07-28 00:27:35 Description: Joining me in the studio is Graeme Fife, author of the definitive account of Le Tour de France, updated each year. He’s also author of the beautiful Rapha Guide to the Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees. We discuss this … Continue reading ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD From Sublime to Ridiculous Updated: 2009-07-21 10:20:07 Description: Copenhagen is widely regarded as the world’s most cycle-friendly city. I ask Copenhagen’s Mayor Klaus Bondam what advice he gives to other city leaders in how to emulate the Danish capital. Multitalented musician, songwriter and cartoonis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher Updated: 2009-07-16 16:07:28 Description: Pedal Pusher is a play that follows three professional cyclists, Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong, in the most dramatic recent era of professional cycle sport. From the young prodigy Jan Ullrich winning the Tour in 1997, the doping R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blazing Saddles: Inside the Brooks factory Updated: 2009-07-13 20:21:02 Description: For long-distance cycling they’re a must and they’ll improve the look of any bicycle. Brooks leather saddles date back to the 1870s and are still made in Birmingham where they were first invented. Steve Green of Brooks talks about the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tour de Farce? Updated: 2009-07-06 19:18:55 Description: A long, hard look at doping in professional cycling, with journalist Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly and theatre director Roland Smith, whose play Pedal Pusher, opens in London on 7th July. Play on links below....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD London to Bristol (part two) Updated: 2009-06-29 23:05:42 Description: In an extended podcast edition of this week’s show, the journey from London to Bristol continues along the Ridgeway (pictured, left) to Avebury, one of the largest prehistoric stone circles in Europe. After a night by Lacock Abbey the route ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD London to Bristol (part one) Updated: 2009-06-22 22:53:32 Description: Part one of a ride from London to Bristol, in which presenter Jack Thurston is guided by listeners to the show. First stop is St Giles’ Church in Stoke Poges, home to the ‘bicycle window’ (pictured behind Jack and Denis … Cont...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD No Bike Week: What happened? Updated: 2009-06-08 22:00:29 Description: A report on No Bike Week, in which a handful of courageous cyclists agree to abstain from two wheels for seven days. Find out what happened. And to read how the No Bike Week meme is evolving into something more … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Radiocycle Updated: 2009-06-02 00:04:15 Description: The Bike Show emerges from its late spring hibernation into the bright sunlight of the summer season. This week’s show features a ride south from the Resonance FM studio to the southern limit of the station’s 5km FM broadcast signal ̷...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast only: Spring Classics Special Edition Updated: 2009-04-11 16:35:04 Description: The Bike Show may be off air, but come with us on a trip to Belgium, home of the Flemish hard men and De Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Along the way I get a surprise tour of the … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The end of the road Updated: 2009-04-01 04:52:36 Description: It’s the end of the road for The Bike Show. Find out why in this special podcast only final edition featuring many Bike Show favourites including Buffalo Bill, editor of Moving Target, cycle sport correspondent William Greswell, London bike mes...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 16 March 2009: End of season finale – a bike pop epic Updated: 2009-03-16 18:41:08 Description: In the last of the current season we drop in on a police bicycle auction to pick up a bargain. Plus a bike pop epic from the Grave Architects (pictured above) and we hear from Jo Upton, presenter of Bike … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 9 March 2009: Legends of the Rás Updated: 2009-03-10 13:31:25 Description: The Rás Tailteann is an 8 day stage race in the Republic of Ireland held each May since 1953. A particularly gruelling race, some say it is Ireland’s ‘Tour de France’ and it is a much cherished tradition, far more … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2 March 2009: Riding and writing Updated: 2009-03-03 13:53:11 Description: The Ride Journal was launched last year to widespread acclaim. Issue two is at the printers. Philip and Andrew Diprose, editor and art director, explain how they came to start a journal of personal stories about how bikes have changed … Continu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week Updated: 2009-02-23 20:20:23 Description: Bicycle polo. It’s the latest sensation that’s sweeping the nation. After an account of bicycle polo played with Hungarian counts in 1934 from Patrick Leigh Fermour’s classic Between the Woods and the Water, we travel to De Beauvoir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession Updated: 2009-02-17 15:00:10 Description: With the UK mired deep in recession, unemployment on the rise, the value of the pound going down and consumer confidence at an all time low, we ask what effect this is having on the cycling business. We hear from … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics Updated: 2009-02-10 17:54:10 Description: This week’s show features Dave Brailsford, Performance Director of British Cycling, explaining how his team achieved a record medal haul at the Beijing Olympics. We also discover that Shanaze Reade (pictured left, racing in the team sprint with...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland Coast Updated: 2009-01-27 13:35:12 Description: Riding the Northumberland coast from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Daniel Start, author of the best-selling Wild Swimming, a guide to natural swimming spots in Britain. Wild Swimming Coast (the salt-water version) will be published i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle Updated: 2008-10-20 22:33:36 Description: The latest on moves by the London Assembly to reduce the dangers posed by lorries to cyclists. Plus an extended talk by Andrew Ritchey, inventor of the Brompton, the folding miracle that is the toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 October 2008: Emergency – Lorries Killing Cyclists Updated: 2008-10-14 12:24:57 Description: After a summer of fun on two wheels, we turn to more serious matters. The entire show this week is devoted to the problem of lorries killing cyclists in London. With Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists and Cynthia Barlow, chairwoman … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two) Updated: 2008-10-06 18:43:30 Description: The concluding episode of a two-part feature on the story of Dr Alex Moulton and the reinvention of the bicycle. We pick up the story with the launch of the Moulton space frame design (pictured left) in the early eighties. … Continue reading &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one) Updated: 2008-09-29 17:00:56 Description: The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the way, continues to push the boundaries of cutting edge engineering. Moultons ha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town Updated: 2008-09-27 16:37:31 Description: The Bicycle Film Festival comes to London from 1-5 October. Laura Fletcher is the BFF’s London ambassador and she previews a handful of highlights from the seven screenings at the Barbican Cinema plus all the parties, art shows, polo matches &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’ Updated: 2008-09-22 19:32:20 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport? Updated: 2008-09-15 19:53:03 Description: Do the rising oil price, the growing concern about man-made climate change and breakthroughs in cycle design mean we’re on the verge of a pedal-powered cargo revolution? Discussing the past, present and future of cargo bikes and pedicabs is Les...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 8 September 2008: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend Updated: 2008-09-08 22:59:45 Description: Remembering Ian Hibell, the world’s most accomplished and intrepid long-distance cyclist and adventurer, who was run down and killed on a road in Greece last month, aged 74. He’d been on a ‘training ride’ which began in Hull (...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two) Updated: 2008-09-03 07:43:51 Description: Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure: from Mexico to Alaska, through Siberia, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one) Updated: 2008-08-11 18:29:09 Description: Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the first of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure from Yorkshire to South Africa and …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 August 2008: Cycling, politics and ideology Updated: 2008-08-06 15:02:05 Description: On this week’s show we ask whether the bicycle and cycling are inherently left-wing or right-wing. Featuring Ruth Beale and Karen Breneman, two artists who recently rode together from London to the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 28 July 2008: Looking back at Le Tour 2008 Updated: 2008-07-28 23:32:33 Description: Looking back at this year’s Tour De France, with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and author and broadcaster Graeme Fife. As well as discussing the racing, we go into what it means for a small towns when it plays … Continue reading...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 July 2008: Sublime Nights: Dunwich Dynamo 16 and S24O with Grant Peterson Updated: 2008-07-21 21:42:36 Description: This year’s Dunwich Dynamo was perfect: a dry, moonlit night, a tail wind and a hot sunny morning on the beach. Around 500 people enjoyed the sixteenth edition of the classic British night ride that covers some 120 miles (190 … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14 July 2008: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets Updated: 2008-07-14 22:09:22 Description: Celebrating Bastille Day and the first week of Le Tour De France plus a discussion of civilised streets with Louise Duggan, streets advisor at the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Just six days until this year&...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides Updated: 2008-07-07 22:46:04 Description: A ride along the splendid London end of the Grand Union Canal with Rob Ainsley, London cyclist and author of 50 Quirky Bike Rides, a new book about weird and wonderful places to go on bicycles in England and Wales. … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 30 June 2008: London Lidos by Bicycle Updated: 2008-06-30 12:12:58 Description: A tour of London lidos by bicycle with Jason Cobb, a lido enthusiast, cyclist, photographer and author of Onion Bag Blog, a blog devoted to life in the Stockwell-Oval-Brixton triangle. Taking in Brockwell Lido, the ghost of Kennington Lido, the ̷...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive Updated: 2008-06-23 20:48:34 Description: Featuring an interview with Stephen Bayley, design editor of The Observer, about his guided cycle ride around the houses and homes of celebrated London artists and architects which kicks of a fantastic programme of bicycle tours as part of the …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones Updated: 2008-06-16 19:10:47 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours Updated: 2008-03-06 14:36:38 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours Updated: 2008-03-06 14:36:38 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix Updated: 2008-02-19 23:25:39 Description: Jack Thurston is away and in his place Amy Cooper presents a show devoted to the swashbuckling Trixie Chix, London’s female fixed wheel freestylers. Will Amy and her sit-up-and-beg town bike cut the mustard with the trackstanding, bike polo pla...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix Updated: 2008-02-19 23:25:39 Description: Jack Thurston is away and in his place Amy Cooper presents a show devoted to the swashbuckling Trixie Chix, London’s female fixed wheel freestylers. Will Amy and her sit-up-and-beg town bike cut the mustard with the trackstanding, bike polo pla...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 February 2007: Love Updated: 2008-02-11 20:10:19 Description: In a special Valentine’s Day edition, sultry Southwark Cyclist Miss Alex Crawford explains why cycling is so good for flirting while love goddess Venus Kamura tells of the fifth annual Reclaim Love ‘happening’ on Saturday 16 Februar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 February 2007: Love Updated: 2008-02-11 20:10:19 Description: In a special Valentine’s Day edition, sultry Southwark Cyclist Miss Alex Crawford explains why cycling is so good for flirting while love goddess Venus Kamura tells of the fifth annual Reclaim Love ‘happening’ on Saturday 16 Februar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps) Updated: 2008-02-04 19:56:10 Description: Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikipedia for mapping and cartography. OSM offers endless ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps) Updated: 2008-02-04 19:56:10 Description: Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikipedia for mapping and cartography. OSM offers endless ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 28 January 2008: Transition Town Bicycling Updated: 2008-01-28 21:12:53 Description: Totnes in South Devon is where the rapidly growing ‘transition town’ movement all began. Transition towns are a response to the problem of resource depletion, peak oil and climate change and embrace the practical and more esoteric aspects...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 28 January 2008: Transition Town Bicycling Updated: 2008-01-28 21:12:53 Description: Totnes in South Devon is where the rapidly growing ‘transition town’ movement all began. Transition towns are a response to the problem of resource depletion, peak oil and climate change and embrace the practical and more esoteric aspects...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure Updated: 2008-01-21 23:56:09 Description: Paul Wonnacott has been buying, repairing and selling on used bicycles in the English countryside for almost thirty years. In an extended interview he looks back at the changes he has observed in the bicycle manufacturing industry (most of them ̷...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure Updated: 2008-01-21 23:56:09 Description: Paul Wonnacott has been buying, repairing and selling on used bicycles in the English countryside for almost thirty years. In an extended interview he looks back at the changes he has observed in the bicycle manufacturing industry (most of them ̷...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14 January 2008: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat? Updated: 2008-01-14 21:45:04 Description: Southwark Council plans to ban cyclists from a key stretch of the Thames Path, which runs along the south bank of the Thames, alongside the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. Jack Thurston canvases the (mixed) opinions of passersby and … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14 January 2008: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat? Updated: 2008-01-14 21:45:04 Description: Southwark Council plans to ban cyclists from a key stretch of the Thames Path, which runs along the south bank of the Thames, alongside the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. Jack Thurston canvases the (mixed) opinions of passersby and … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 7 January 2008: New Year’s Resolutions Updated: 2008-01-08 12:47:30 Description: The closing of one year and start of another is the time where many of us resolve to turn over a new leaf, change our life or otherwise embark on a virtuous but most probably doomed attempt at self-improvement. London … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 7 January 2008: New Year’s Resolutions Updated: 2008-01-08 12:47:30 Description: The closing of one year and start of another is the time where many of us resolve to turn over a new leaf, change our life or otherwise embark on a virtuous but most probably doomed attempt at self-improvement. London … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17 December 2007: London Olympics 2012 Updated: 2007-12-18 00:08:06 Description: Does the coming of Olympics in 2012 spell disaster for cycle sport in London or will it bring much needed regeneration of a neglected part of the city? A ride with Patrick Field around the perimeter fence of the construction … Continue reading ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 December 2007: How to Win at Roller-Racing Updated: 2007-12-11 01:24:25 Description: Reigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV comedy-drama series Bike Squad (aka “The Bill...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 December 2007: How to Win at Roller-Racing Updated: 2007-12-11 01:24:25 Description: Reigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV comedy-drama series Bike Squad (aka “The Bill...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 December 2007: Fixed Fever Updated: 2007-12-04 14:50:24 Description: Over the past five years a craze for riding bicycles with only one gear and no freewheel has taken off, in New York, London, Sydney and cities all around the world. We take a long hard look at the merits … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 December 2007: Fixed Fever Updated: 2007-12-04 14:50:24 Description: Over the past five years a craze for riding bicycles with only one gear and no freewheel has taken off, in New York, London, Sydney and cities all around the world. We take a long hard look at the merits … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 November 2007: Christmas books special Updated: 2007-11-27 18:25:09 Description: A Christmas books special with guests George Theohari (author of the newly published Cyclist’s Companion), Guy Andrews (editor of Rouleur) and Graeme Fife (among the UK’s leading cycle writer whose memoirs were published this year). Inclu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 19 November 2007: Tales of the summer Updated: 2007-11-21 13:38:38 Description: The Bike Show returns for its winter season with guest in the studio Buffalo Bill reporting on this year’s Cycle Messenger World Championship in Dublin and Kieron Yates on taking part in the epic and grueling 1200 kilometer non-stop race …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 19 November 2007: Tales of the summer Updated: 2007-11-21 13:38:38 Description: The Bike Show returns for its winter season with guest in the studio Buffalo Bill reporting on this year’s Cycle Messenger World Championship in Dublin and Kieron Yates on taking part in the epic and grueling 1200 kilometer non-stop race …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives Updated: 2007-07-02 17:27:49 Description: In conversation with Julian Bray, a journalist and rider with the Rapha Condor team. Julian came to competitive cycling after falling in love with the continental tradition of the cyclosportive: mass-participation road races of historic or cultural s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives Updated: 2007-07-02 17:27:49 Description: In conversation with Julian Bray, a journalist and rider with the Rapha Condor team. Julian came to competitive cycling after falling in love with the continental tradition of the cyclosportive: mass-participation road races of historic or cultural s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 25 June 2007: Flandrien Updated: 2007-06-26 00:21:44 Description: Preview of a new exhibition of stunning photographs by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Stefan Vanfleteren that capture the essence of Flemish cycle racing. Interviews with Vanfleteren and with British former world champion Tony Doyle and th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 25 June 2007: Flandrien Updated: 2007-06-26 00:21:44 Description: Preview of a new exhibition of stunning photographs by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Stefan Vanfleteren that capture the essence of Flemish cycle racing. Interviews with Vanfleteren and with British former world champion Tony Doyle and th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 June 2007: Style on two wheels Updated: 2007-06-19 02:04:20 Description: T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. Andrea Casalotti of Velorution and Jean-Marie Orhan (Frenchman-about-town and founding member of the Tweed Cycling Club) offer sartorial advice to urban cyclists. Tribute is paid to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 June 2007: Style on two wheels Updated: 2007-06-19 02:04:20 Description: T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. Andrea Casalotti of Velorution and Jean-Marie Orhan (Frenchman-about-town and founding member of the Tweed Cycling Club) offer sartorial advice to urban cyclists. Tribute is paid to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 June 2007: ‘Slow Bicycling’ in Italy; on two wheels in Provence Updated: 2007-06-11 11:37:58 Description: The Bike Show this week has a distinctly Mediterranean and gastronomic feel. Kieron Yates reports from northern Italy, the world capital of the Slow Food movement, on a ‘slow bicycle’ ride along the length of the River Po (for more …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling Updated: 2007-05-30 22:33:56 Description: This week features a ride in the hills of north Kent hills with writer, broadcaster and cyclist Graeme Fife. Graeme is the author of several of the best English language books about cycling and Le Tour de France. His new … Continue reading U...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell Updated: 2007-05-22 00:37:01 Description: The Bike Show returns to Essex and Martin Newell, writer, poet, musician and horticultural assassin, for another helping of Spoke N Word. This year’s programme features a new route from Wivenhoe to Bentley Green, reported to be the largest vill...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell Updated: 2007-05-22 00:37:01 Description: The Bike Show returns to Essex and Martin Newell, writer, poet, musician and horticultural assassin, for another helping of Spoke N Word. This year’s programme features a new route from Wivenhoe to Bentley Green, reported to be the largest vill...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis Updated: 2007-05-15 00:06:51 Description: Returning for the summer season, The Bike Show turns to the trials of US cycling star Floyd Landis, whose sensational victory in the 2006 Tour de France was thrown into doubt after he failed a test for the banned drug … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis Updated: 2007-05-15 00:06:51 Description: Returning for the summer season, The Bike Show turns to the trials of US cycling star Floyd Landis, whose sensational victory in the 2006 Tour de France was thrown into doubt after he failed a test for the banned drug … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 1 May 2007: Podcast special: ‘Stannerd’ comes out for cycling Updated: 2007-05-01 18:22:46 Description: The Bike Show is officially off air at the moment, but I couldn’t resist a podcast-only edition to discuss the Evening Standard’s Damscene conversion to the way of the bicycle. For years, London’s leading daily newspaper has been in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype Updated: 2007-03-12 23:07:35 Description: We test out Andy Cox’s prototype singing bicycle, for use in the performance of Godfried Willem Raes’s Second Symphony. Down the line from San Francisco, Jon Winston fills us in on Bay Area cycle culture and his own Bikescape bicycling &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype Updated: 2007-03-12 23:07:35 Description: We test out Andy Cox’s prototype singing bicycle, for use in the performance of Godfried Willem Raes’s Second Symphony. Down the line from San Francisco, Jon Winston fills us in on Bay Area cycle culture and his own Bikescape bicycling &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 5 March 2007: Green London? Updated: 2007-03-07 10:19:33 Description: A look at London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ambition for London to be the greenest major city in the world. Host Jack Thurston and Erica Jobson of Futerra, the London-based sustainable development communications consultancy discuss the role of gov...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 5 March 2007: Green London? Updated: 2007-03-07 10:19:33 Description: A look at London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ambition for London to be the greenest major city in the world. Host Jack Thurston and Erica Jobson of Futerra, the London-based sustainable development communications consultancy discuss the role of gov...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 February 2007: Calling All Bicycle Filmmakers! Updated: 2007-02-27 14:52:43 Description: Looking ahead to the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival, which has plans for screenings in 15 countries including a third year in London. In the studio is the BFF’s London coordinator Roxy Erickson. We discuss how to make a great bicycle … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 February 2007: Calling All Bicycle Filmmakers! Updated: 2007-02-27 14:52:43 Description: Looking ahead to the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival, which has plans for screenings in 15 countries including a third year in London. In the studio is the BFF’s London coordinator Roxy Erickson. We discuss how to make a great bicycle … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music Updated: 2007-02-14 19:30:07 Description: Another thrilling dip into the world of experimental music involving bicycles. With guest in the studio Andy Cox, guitarist in The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals and Cribabi, who is known to play the occasional bicycle. We feature Frank Zappa’s fir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music Updated: 2007-02-14 19:30:07 Description: Another thrilling dip into the world of experimental music involving bicycles. With guest in the studio Andy Cox, guitarist in The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals and Cribabi, who is known to play the occasional bicycle. We feature Frank Zappa’s fir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 5 February 2007: Cyclosportives, bicycle podcasting and Budapest Updated: 2007-02-08 15:06:56 Description: In this week’s show we hear from Patrick Field about how to survive the grueling Paris-Brest-Paris: by riding a recumbent. Also a look at the blossoming world of bicycle radio and podcasting and a look ahead to the best in … Continue read...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle Updated: 2007-02-02 19:17:00 Description: First run in 1891 as a race designed to demonstrate the practicality of the bicycle, Paris Brest Paris has since become a four yearly event that attracts long distance cyclists from around the world. This year is a Paris Brest … Continue readin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle Updated: 2007-02-02 19:17:00 Description: First run in 1891 as a race designed to demonstrate the practicality of the bicycle, Paris Brest Paris has since become a four yearly event that attracts long distance cyclists from around the world. This year is a Paris Brest … Continue readin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling Updated: 2007-01-23 11:19:00 Description: Could 2007 be the best year yet for cycling in London? In the studio with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. We discuss the coming of Le Tour de France to London, the 15th … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling Updated: 2007-01-23 11:19:00 Description: Could 2007 be the best year yet for cycling in London? In the studio with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. We discuss the coming of Le Tour de France to London, the 15th … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 15 January 2007: Women bike messengers and a ride through a very long tunnel Updated: 2007-01-16 20:07:00 Description: Women bike messengers might cut a better figure on the roads than their grungy, bearded and tattooed male counterparts, but are the girls better at their jobs than the boys? The answer is yes, if a handful of London’s women … Continue rea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 15 January 2007: Women bike messengers and a ride through a very long tunnel Updated: 2007-01-16 20:07:00 Description: Women bike messengers might cut a better figure on the roads than their grungy, bearded and tattooed male counterparts, but are the girls better at their jobs than the boys? The answer is yes, if a handful of London’s women … Continue rea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 8 January 2007 – Doorstep Adventures with Patrick Field (part two) Updated: 2007-01-09 13:41:00 Description: In the second half of a ride with London cyclist Patrick Field, we cruise on the Woolwich Ferry, ride along the Thames Path through Greenwich before crossing in a tunnel under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and from … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 8 January 2007 – Doorstep Adventures with Patrick Field (part two) Updated: 2007-01-09 13:41:00 Description: In the second half of a ride with London cyclist Patrick Field, we cruise on the Woolwich Ferry, ride along the Thames Path through Greenwich before crossing in a tunnel under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and from … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 December 2006: Doorstep adventures with Patrick Field (Part one) Updated: 2006-12-19 02:01:00 Description: Riding with Patrick Field, legendary London cyclist, thinker and writer, on a leisurely route east from Hackney along the top of a giant Victorian sewerage outflow pipe towards the River Thames. We take in ancient trading routes, cross the River R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 18 December 2006: Doorstep adventures with Patrick Field (Part one) Updated: 2006-12-19 02:01:00 Description: Riding with Patrick Field, legendary London cyclist, thinker and writer, on a leisurely route east from Hackney along the top of a giant Victorian sewerage outflow pipe towards the River Thames. We take in ancient trading routes, cross the River R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 December 2006 – The Christmas edition Updated: 2006-12-15 00:36:00 Description: Back in the Resonance FM studio with Danish bike messenger elf Therese Bjorn to talk Christmas on bicycles. What to buy, what to do… and we take a look at the new London Scorcher bicycle from Velorution and Therese gives … Continue readin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 11 December 2006 – The Christmas edition Updated: 2006-12-15 00:36:00 Description: Back in the Resonance FM studio with Danish bike messenger elf Therese Bjorn to talk Christmas on bicycles. What to buy, what to do… and we take a look at the new London Scorcher bicycle from Velorution and Therese gives … Continue readin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 December 2006: Sur le pavé in Brussels Updated: 2006-12-04 18:33:00 Description: In the Belgian capital of Brussels, road-testing Cyclocity, a new concept in bicycle hire – sturdy bikes you can pick up and leave in different places around the city that cost just one euro an hour. Jack Thurston and William … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 December 2006: Sur le pavé in Brussels Updated: 2006-12-04 18:33:00 Description: In the Belgian capital of Brussels, road-testing Cyclocity, a new concept in bicycle hire – sturdy bikes you can pick up and leave in different places around the city that cost just one euro an hour. Jack Thurston and William … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 November 2006: Berlin special Updated: 2006-11-27 22:49:00 Description: A special edition from the German capital city and well-known haven for cyclists. Riding with Berlin blogger Maisie Hitchcock, we discuss the changing face of Berlin, the legacy of the Cold War and the achingly hip Berlin music scene, all … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 November 2006: Berlin special Updated: 2006-11-27 22:49:00 Description: A special edition from the German capital city and well-known haven for cyclists. Riding with Berlin blogger Maisie Hitchcock, we discuss the changing face of Berlin, the legacy of the Cold War and the achingly hip Berlin music scene, all … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 November 2006: Experimental music and the bicycle Updated: 2006-11-20 22:56:00 Description: It’s cold outside, so stay at home and turn your bicycle into a musical instrument! Featuring performances by Stephen Schweitzer’s Bikelophone (pictured left), electro-acoustic composer David Berezan and the Tea and Toast Band. And we set...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 November 2006: Experimental music and the bicycle Updated: 2006-11-20 22:56:00 Description: It’s cold outside, so stay at home and turn your bicycle into a musical instrument! Featuring performances by Stephen Schweitzer’s Bikelophone (pictured left), electro-acoustic composer David Berezan and the Tea and Toast Band. And we set...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities Updated: 2006-11-14 18:58:00 Description: This week’s studio guest is none other than David Thurston, my very own dad. A London cyclist since the 1970s when he lost his driving license, he explored China in the early 1980s on a Bickerton folder and is now … Continue reading ͛...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities Updated: 2006-11-14 18:58:00 Description: This week’s studio guest is none other than David Thurston, my very own dad. A London cyclist since the 1970s when he lost his driving license, he explored China in the early 1980s on a Bickerton folder and is now … Continue reading ͛...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 6 November 2006: Edinburgh by train, low carbon travel Updated: 2006-11-07 00:27:00 Description: It makes perfect sense to travel to Ediburgh with a bicycle overnight on the sleeper train. Once there, I find out what it’s like on two wheels in Scotland’s capital city – watch those cobblestones! Also chatting with Ed Gillespie, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 6 November 2006: Edinburgh by train, low carbon travel Updated: 2006-11-07 00:27:00 Description: It makes perfect sense to travel to Ediburgh with a bicycle overnight on the sleeper train. Once there, I find out what it’s like on two wheels in Scotland’s capital city – watch those cobblestones! Also chatting with Ed Gillespie, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 – Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets Updated: 2006-10-24 21:41:00 Description: Jack Thurston and Jo Upton in search of the best bicycle gadget at Cycle 2006, the UK’s biggest cycling exhibition and trade fair. Glow in the dark pedals, GPS tools, bike storage, heart rate monitors and lights galore. We are … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 – Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets Updated: 2006-10-24 21:41:00 Description: Jack Thurston and Jo Upton in search of the best bicycle gadget at Cycle 2006, the UK’s biggest cycling exhibition and trade fair. Glow in the dark pedals, GPS tools, bike storage, heart rate monitors and lights galore. We are … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 9 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part two) Updated: 2006-10-09 20:47:00 Description: Second half of Kieron Yates’s ride down the Mississippi. He crosses the Mason-Dixon line and enters the realm of the South. On the way he encounters juke joints, folk art, learns about the role of bicycles in the aftermath of … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 9 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part two) Updated: 2006-10-09 20:47:00 Description: Second half of Kieron Yates’s ride down the Mississippi. He crosses the Mason-Dixon line and enters the realm of the South. On the way he encounters juke joints, folk art, learns about the role of bicycles in the aftermath of … Continue r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part one) Updated: 2006-10-03 20:33:00 Description: This week’s show is the story of a long, long ride from Fargo, North Dakota to New Orleans, Louisiana following the Mississippi River. Kieron Yates made this journey over the summer just passed, on a fixed wheel bike with just … Continue ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory Updated: 2006-08-01 12:12:00 Description: In this last show of the current season we’re getting technical, with a visit to the Brompton factory. Bromptons are the best all round folding bicycles in the world and the invention of Andrew Ritchie, who started making them in … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory Updated: 2006-08-01 12:12:00 Description: In this last show of the current season we’re getting technical, with a visit to the Brompton factory. Bromptons are the best all round folding bicycles in the world and the invention of Andrew Ritchie, who started making them in … Contin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 24 July 2006: Remembering Major Taylor – the fastest man on the planet Updated: 2006-07-24 16:07:00 Description: In this week’s show we remember ‘Major’ Marshall Taylor, a world champion cyclist from the 1890s and the first black American sports superstar. Kieron Yates talks about Major Taylor’s life with Lynne Tolman of the Major Taylor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 24 July 2006: Remembering Major Taylor – the fastest man on the planet Updated: 2006-07-24 16:07:00 Description: In this week’s show we remember ‘Major’ Marshall Taylor, a world champion cyclist from the 1890s and the first black American sports superstar. Kieron Yates talks about Major Taylor’s life with Lynne Tolman of the Major Taylor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub Updated: 2006-07-17 13:49:00 Description: This week’s show is a Tour De France special recorded at the Charles Lamb pub in north London. The Charles Lamb is one of the few places in London that is showing Le Tour this year. I am joined by … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub Updated: 2006-07-17 13:49:00 Description: This week’s show is a Tour De France special recorded at the Charles Lamb pub in north London. The Charles Lamb is one of the few places in London that is showing Le Tour this year. I am joined by … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson Updated: 2006-07-11 22:08:00 Description: This week the Bike Show is in the presence of time trial greatness and (almost) sporting immortality. Michael Hutchinson has just written a book about his recent attempt to enter the pantheon of cycling legend by breaking the record for … Conti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson Updated: 2006-07-11 22:08:00 Description: This week the Bike Show is in the presence of time trial greatness and (almost) sporting immortality. Michael Hutchinson has just written a book about his recent attempt to enter the pantheon of cycling legend by breaking the record for … Conti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 July 2006: Creativity, design and the bicycle Updated: 2006-07-07 15:42:00 Description: Riding with London-based desiger and artist Julia Lohmann. We begin at the Velorution bike shop in the West End, where Julia’s giant backlit illustration of animal-bicycle metamophosis is on display. We ride down through the park via the Serpen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 July 2006: Creativity, design and the bicycle Updated: 2006-07-07 15:42:00 Description: Riding with London-based desiger and artist Julia Lohmann. We begin at the Velorution bike shop in the West End, where Julia’s giant backlit illustration of animal-bicycle metamophosis is on display. We ride down through the park via the Serpen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling Updated: 2006-06-27 10:27:00 Description: This week’s show has an extreme flavour. Kieron Yates visits Sheldon Brown for advice on fixed gear touring and Alex Murray tells us about his preparations for taking on this year’s Etape Du Tour. Plus Dominic Gabellini on the new …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling Updated: 2006-06-27 10:27:00 Description: This week’s show has an extreme flavour. Kieron Yates visits Sheldon Brown for advice on fixed gear touring and Alex Murray tells us about his preparations for taking on this year’s Etape Du Tour. Plus Dominic Gabellini on the new …...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 19 June 2006: It’s Bike Week! Updated: 2006-06-20 01:49:00 Description: This year’s Bike Week coincides with the London Architecture Biennale, which has got a lot of cyclists thinking about architecture and a lot of architects thinking about cycling. At the launch of the Reinventing The Bike Shed exhibition, I spea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 19 June 2006: It’s Bike Week! Updated: 2006-06-20 01:49:00 Description: This year’s Bike Week coincides with the London Architecture Biennale, which has got a lot of cyclists thinking about architecture and a lot of architects thinking about cycling. At the launch of the Reinventing The Bike Shed exhibition, I spea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 June 2006: A ride in the Royal Parks Updated: 2006-06-19 23:59:00 Description: London’s eight Royal Parks stretch from Greenwich in the east to Richmond in the west and make London one of the greenest big cities in Europe. Between them, the parks’ 5500 acres of land are the lungs of the capital. … Continue rea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 12 June 2006: A ride in the Royal Parks Updated: 2006-06-19 23:59:00 Description: London’s eight Royal Parks stretch from Greenwich in the east to Richmond in the west and make London one of the greenest big cities in Europe. Between them, the parks’ 5500 acres of land are the lungs of the capital. … Continue rea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 24 April 2006 – Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex Updated: 2006-04-24 08:44:00 Description: In the last of the current season of the Bike Show, Kieron Yates rides around Essex with poet, musician and horticultural assassin Martin Newell, as part of the Spoke N Word project....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 17 April 2006: Cycling in New York City (part two) Updated: 2006-04-18 08:54:00 Description: As he crosses the Hudson River into Brooklyn, things take a turn for the weird on Jack Thurston’s bicycle adventure in New York City. A visit to the drummers’ circle in Prospect Park, a one man bicycle soul machine and … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 April 2006: Cycling in New York City (part one) Updated: 2006-04-11 03:50:00 Description: In the first of two shows devoted to cycling in the NYC, Jack Thurston takes to the streets of Manhattan on a sunny spring Sunday and meets cyclists and assorted Gotham oddballs. Listen to Part Two....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 April 2006: Standing up for Cycling; Tall Bikes Updated: 2006-04-04 09:30:00 Description: Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists is on hand this week to demolish all those annoying arguments used against cyclists by angry petrol-heads. Plus we witness the beginning of a 4,600 mile ride around Britain on tall bikes. MP3 DOWNLOAD OGG … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 3 April 2006: Standing up for Cycling; Tall Bikes Updated: 2006-04-04 09:30:00 Description: Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists is on hand this week to demolish all those annoying arguments used against cyclists by angry petrol-heads. Plus we witness the beginning of a 4,600 mile ride around Britain on tall bikes. MP3 DOWNLOAD OGG … Con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 March 2006: Bicycle recycling Updated: 2006-03-30 12:40:00 Description: Owing to a technical meltdown at Resonance fm HQ, we have no archived version of Monday’s show on the Waltham Forest Bicycle Recycling Project. In it’s place we have a special podcast-only version of the show recorded at the Scooterworks ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 March 2006: Bicycle recycling Updated: 2006-03-30 12:40:00 Description: Owing to a technical meltdown at Resonance fm HQ, we have no archived version of Monday’s show on the Waltham Forest Bicycle Recycling Project. In it’s place we have a special podcast-only version of the show recorded at the Scooterworks ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session Updated: 2006-03-28 00:02:00 Description: This week’s show features a long-awaited live session by London’s best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys. MP3 DOWNLOAD...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session Updated: 2006-03-28 00:02:00 Description: This week’s show features a long-awaited live session by London’s best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys. MP3 DOWNLOAD...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part two Updated: 2006-03-16 16:25:00 Description: Second half of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’. Cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young joins Alex Crawford and Jack Thurston in casting a critical ear at another cluch of bicycle-themed songs. Find out which come out top and which are the h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part two Updated: 2006-03-16 16:25:00 Description: Second half of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’. Cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young joins Alex Crawford and Jack Thurston in casting a critical ear at another cluch of bicycle-themed songs. Find out which come out top and which are the h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part one Updated: 2006-03-16 15:41:00 Description: Part one of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’, with cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young and Alex Crawford joining Jack Thurston to listen to a selection of bike-related songs. Which are hits and which are misses? MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part one Updated: 2006-03-16 15:41:00 Description: Part one of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’, with cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young and Alex Crawford joining Jack Thurston to listen to a selection of bike-related songs. Which are hits and which are misses? MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 February 2006 – Bicycles on trains Updated: 2006-03-01 18:57:00 Description: In this week’s show we discuss the growing problems cyclists are experiencing in putting bikes on trains. In the studio is Dave Holladay of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) which is running a campaign to improve cycle-rail integration. We...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 February 2006 – Bicycles on trains Updated: 2006-03-01 18:57:00 Description: In this week’s show we discuss the growing problems cyclists are experiencing in putting bikes on trains. In the studio is Dave Holladay of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) which is running a campaign to improve cycle-rail integration. We...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media Updated: 2006-02-21 23:49:00 Description: In this week’s show we look at cycling and the media. Do newspapers, TV and radio do justice to cyclists? Does it matter? As more and more people get on two wheels, is media coverage of cycling changing at all? … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media Updated: 2006-02-21 23:49:00 Description: In this week’s show we look at cycling and the media. Do newspapers, TV and radio do justice to cyclists? Does it matter? As more and more people get on two wheels, is media coverage of cycling changing at all? … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007! Updated: 2006-02-17 18:28:00 Description: The Bike Show returns after a winter break to the news that the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour De France will be in London!! Featuring the formal presentation by ASO’s Jean-Marie Leblanc and a press conference by London Mayor … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007! Updated: 2006-02-17 18:28:00 Description: The Bike Show returns after a winter break to the news that the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour De France will be in London!! Featuring the formal presentation by ASO’s Jean-Marie Leblanc and a press conference by London Mayor … Continue re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown Updated: 2005-11-24 14:31:00 Description: Featuring the mighty Sheldon Brown on the marvels of classic English 3-speed bicycles. Sheldon Brown is the technical guru at Harris Cyclery and owns one of the world’s greatest collections of weird and wonderful bikes, including a bizarre fixe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown Updated: 2005-11-24 14:31:00 Description: Featuring the mighty Sheldon Brown on the marvels of classic English 3-speed bicycles. Sheldon Brown is the technical guru at Harris Cyclery and owns one of the world’s greatest collections of weird and wonderful bikes, including a bizarre fixe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 31 October 2005: Roller-racing, Ghostcycle and Critical Mass London Updated: 2005-11-01 16:38:00 Description: Joining Buffalo Bill and the hardcore of London’s bike messengers for chaotic indoor racing action at Rollapalooza IV (and live music from the Deadley Treadleys). In the studio Scott and Steve explain their Ghostcycle project to mark and map tr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival Updated: 2005-10-27 12:00:00 Description: Kieron Yates joins Southwark Cyclists for the inaugural John Peel Memorial Ride in homage to the great British broadcaster and champion of the underdog. Jack rides with Brendt Barbur, founding director of the Bicycle Film Festival on the day after &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry Updated: 2005-10-07 18:10:00 Description: Guest is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills. MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs Updated: 2005-10-07 18:06:00 Description: Christmas Day ride across the south downs of East Sussex, including a climb up Ditchling Beacon with writer and film-maker Nicky Hamlyn. Followed by hot bath. MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs Updated: 2005-10-07 18:06:00 Description: Christmas Day ride across the south downs of East Sussex, including a climb up Ditchling Beacon with writer and film-maker Nicky Hamlyn. Followed by hot bath. MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo Updated: 2005-09-21 16:43:00 Description: Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo Updated: 2005-09-21 16:43:00 Description: Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 22 August 2005 Show – a countryside trip Updated: 2005-09-05 19:37:00 Description: A ride on the Kent-Sussex border with my old school friend, writer and wilderness guru Daniel Start. We evoke the Edwardian spirit of genteel cycle touring and our ride takes in a ruined castle, ancient woodland, a dangerous cliff excursion, … ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 16 May Show: Riding with Buffalo Bill Updated: 2005-08-11 14:39:00 Description: Today’s show features the first part of a two-part interview/ride with ‘Buffalo’ Bill Chidley, Chair of the London Bicycle Messengers Association. The LBMA works for London’s 400-500 bicycle messengers (also known as couriers)...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 April 2005: Rosie Walford Updated: 2005-08-11 14:17:00 Description: This week’s show features Rosie Walford, psychologist and founder of The Big Stretch explaining how cycling helps improve your powers of creative thinking by moving your brain into an alpha state. We take a ride around Islington and the City &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 4 April 2005: Rosie Walford Updated: 2005-08-11 14:17:00 Description: This week’s show features Rosie Walford, psychologist and founder of The Big Stretch explaining how cycling helps improve your powers of creative thinking by moving your brain into an alpha state. We take a ride around Islington and the City &#...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 24 January 2005 – Jeremy Deller Updated: 2005-08-08 09:41:00 Description: Riding with Jeremy Deller, London-based artist and recent winner of the Turner Prize, who dedicated his win to ‘all London cyclists’. MP3 Track list: Voodoo Ray – Williams Fairey Brass Band It’s Turned Out Nice Again – G...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD (Archive) 24 January 2005 – Jeremy Deller Updated: 2005-08-08 09:41:00 Description: Riding with Jeremy Deller, London-based artist and recent winner of the Turner Prize, who dedicated his win to ‘all London cyclists’. MP3 Track list: Voodoo Ray – Williams Fairey Brass Band It’s Turned Out Nice Again – G...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 December 2004: Mark Ellen Updated: 2005-08-06 00:21:00 Description: Riding across London with Mark Ellen, bon rouleur and editor of Word Magazine. Mark is the founder of Q Magazine, a former presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test and the bassist in Tony Blair’s college band Ugly Rumours....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 27 December 2004: Mark Ellen Updated: 2005-08-06 00:21:00 Description: Riding across London with Mark Ellen, bon rouleur and editor of Word Magazine. Mark is the founder of Q Magazine, a former presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test and the bassist in Tony Blair’s college band Ugly Rumours....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 January 2005: Kraftwerk and Cycling Updated: 2005-08-05 16:09:00 Description: Discussing German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk and their love of the bicycle. With Kraftwerk aficionados Maisie Hitchcock and Chris Bloor. MP3 format and Real Audio. Read Jack Thurston’s feature on Kraftwerk and cycling first published in Rou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 10 January 2005: Kraftwerk and Cycling Updated: 2005-08-05 16:09:00 Description: Discussing German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk and their love of the bicycle. With Kraftwerk aficionados Maisie Hitchcock and Chris Bloor. MP3 format and Real Audio. Read Jack Thurston’s feature on Kraftwerk and cycling first published in Rou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 13 June 2005: Bike Week Special Updated: 2005-08-01 10:40:00 Description: This is the audio for the Bike Week special, recorded on 13 June. Guest in the studio is Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. Features recordings of Bike Fest in the Square and highlights from the past 12 months of The … Continue reading →...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 23 May Show: Buffalo Bill // Giro D’Italia Updated: 2005-05-24 02:46:00 Description: Today’s show is a Giro D’Italia special, recorded from Bar Italia in Soho. Also featuring the second half of my ride with Buffalo Bill Chidley, chair of the London Bicycle Messengers Association. Music: Adriatica – Calicanto Hung Up...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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