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 messenger Nhatt Attack, Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists, and Joe and Wes from the London Bicycle [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Bicycle music'
The end of the road
April 1st, 2009 · 34 Comments
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16 March 2009: End of season finale - a bike pop epic
March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 Love, a bicycling radio show in Sydney, Australia.
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Tags: Bicycle music · London · People · Podcast
16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession
February 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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 the owners of two of London’s new breed of bicycle boutiques (Tour de Ville and [...]
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9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics
February 10th, 2009 · 9 Comments
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 Victoria Pendleton) has never heard of fixed gear freestyling despite being a world champion cyclist in both [...]
Tags: Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · United States
13 October 2008: Emergency - Lorries Killing Cyclists
October 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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 of RoadPeace, the national campaign against deaths on Britain’s roads. We also hear from London [...]
Tags: Advocacy · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Rolling interview
6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two)
October 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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. Featuring interviews with eaturing interviews with Dr Alex Moulton, Shaun Moulton, Tony Hadland, Michael Woolf, [...]
Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Touring
29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one)
September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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 have been feted by architects and designers, won races and broken speed records, and are taken [...]
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27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town
September 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 and roller-racing that make the Festival a veritable jamboree of bicycle culture. Plus a very [...]
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22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’
September 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Grant Peterson on overnight trips and a visit to London's 'anti-bike shop' [31:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · Italy · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Sport · Style · Touring · United States
8 September 2008: Ian Hibell - Paying respects to a legend
September 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 (England) in preparation for his next trip to Nepal and Tibet. Nic Henderson talks about his friend [...]
8 September 2008: Ian Hibell - Paying respect to a legend [29:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Bicycle music · England · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Touring
11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one)
August 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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 Chile to Colombia. Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is out now, [...]
11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one) [29:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · People · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · Touring
4 August 2008: Cycling, politics and ideology
August 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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 at Home in Liverpool in search of cycling’s socialist and non-conformist past, present and future. [...]
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7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides
July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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. We visit a canal that passes over a motorway and take advantage of a little [...]
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16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones
June 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments
The Bike Show - 16 June 2008 - From the Tropics to the Stones [30:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Architecture · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Events · London · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Touring
3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours
March 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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11 February 2007: Love
February 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 February at the Eros Statue on Piccadilly Circus. Over the past few days, all across the bicycling world, there [...]
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21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell
May 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments
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 village green in England. We cross fields, pass through woodland and finish on a series of [...]
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14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis
May 15th, 2007 · No Comments
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 testosterone. We also hear an extended talk on road danger in a global context by [...]
Tags: Bicycle music · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Tour de France · United States
12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype
March 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments
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 podcast.
This is the last in the current season of the Bike Show. Thanks to [...]
The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype [28:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTags: Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · Podcast · United States
12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music
February 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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 first ever TV appearance (see below) - playing a bike! Plus music made by Sylvia Hallett, [...]
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