the bike show

As we enter the final week of Le Tour De France 2005, I am joined in the studio by Bike Show regular William Greswell. Interviews with Guy Andrews, editor of Road Cycling UK and Rouleur magazine. Also talking with Kent Benson who is watching roadside in the Alps. Kent runs If Hannibal Had, organising cycling [...]

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This week’s show features an interview with David Herlihy, author of ‘Bicycle‘ the recently published definitive history of the bicycle (Yale University Press). Kieron Yates reports on the London-Edinburgh-London audax/endurance ride.
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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) and has run a prominent campaign to reduce the risks to cyclists posed by Heavy [...]

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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 of London.
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Track List:
Cars - Desperate Bicycles
First Love Never Dies - The Cascades
Natural Harmony - The [...]

 

 4 April 2005 - Rosie Walford: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Riding with Jeremy Deller, London-based artist and recent winner of the Turner Prize, who dedicated his win to ‘all London cyclists’.
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Track list:
Voodoo Ray - Williams Fairey Brass Band
It’s Turned Out Nice Again - George Formby
Our Paths Will Cross Again - Jeremy Deller, feat. William Whitmore and Jennie Olsen
Hanged I Shall Be - Albion Country Band
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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.

 

 27 December 2004 - Mark Ellen [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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Following the Bike Show’s January 2005 feature on Kraftwerk and bicycling, I was invited to write an article for a new road racing magazine called Rouleur, looking deeper into the obsession that the German godfathers of technopop have for cycling.
Rouleur is published by those fabulous people at Rapha and is now out - £9 - [...]

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Special on-location feature on the 2005 Paris-Roubaix classic race (L’Enfer du Nord) with William Greswell. Look ahead to this month’s 11th birthday of London’s Critical Mass bike ride.
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Track list:
Cars - Desperate Bicycles
Coeur Vagabond - unknown accordionist
Triplets of Belleville - The Triplets of Belleville
Rockin’ Bicycle - Fats Domino

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In the studio with Tom Kevill-Davies, aka The Hungry Cyclist. We talk about his imminent bike ride around the American continent.
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Track list:
Cycling Is Fun - Shonen Knife
Ice Cream Man - Leslie Uggams
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Woodie Guthrie
Rueda De Fuego - Texas Tornados
No Hay Manteca - Celia Cruz
Gopher Mambo - Yma Sumac
Vuelvo Al [...]

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The July bomb attacks on the London underground and bus network has resulted in a massive increase in the numbers of people cycling to work instead of taking public transport. In this week’s Bike Show, Lucy Nandris from Cycle Training UK and Buzz from Tower Hamlets Wheelers discuss the implications.
Track list:
The Sound of Silence - [...]

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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 Bike Show.
The show was 90 minutes long, so this is a larger-than-usual download. Streaming Real [...]

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