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Entries Tagged as 'England'

16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones

June 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments


 
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Tags: Architecture · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Events · London · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Touring

Summer Solstice night ride to Stonehenge

May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you like night riding (and who doesn’t?) but find the marvelous Dunwich Dynamo just a little bit too mainstream for your tastes, then look no further than Rolling to the Stones, a summer solstice ride to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge. I can remember as a child being able to clamber all over the [...]

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Tags: Bicycle messengers · England · Events · Rides

4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps)

February 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 customisation possibilities, is entirely open source and in many parts of the world is rivaling the best online and [...]

 
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Tags: England · London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Science · Sport · Touring

28 January 2008: Transition Town Bicycling

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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 of changing lifestyles and mindsets. Totnes and the surrounding countryside - like many rural areas - remain [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · England · Environment · London · Podcast · Politics · Road safety

21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure

January 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments

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’s observed in the bicycle manufacturing industry (most of them bad) and grapples with a hoarder’s inner demon as he watches his huge stock literally pile [...]

 
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Tags: England · Gear · History · Podcast

24 April 2006 - Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex

April 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments

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.

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Tags: England · Literature · Podcast

27 February 2006 - Bicycles on trains

March 1st, 2006 · No Comments

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 also catch up with Tom Kevill-Davies aka The Hungry Cyclist on his epic ride around the [...]

 
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Tags: England · Food · London · Podcast · Politics · Touring · United States

20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media

February 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments

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? Featuring comment from Buffalo Bill who runs the Moving Target zine and Matt Seaton who [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · England · London · Podcast · Politics

13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007!

February 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

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 Ken Livingstone.
Also in the show is Kieron Yates’s impressionistic and thoughtful account of a winter [...]

 
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Tags: England · France · London · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France · Touring

21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown

November 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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 fixed gear tandem, a bike that allows its rider to choose between drop and straight handlebars whilst [...]

 
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Tags: England · Gear · Podcast

24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival

October 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments

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 the festival took London by storm.
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Tags: England · Podcast · Rolling interview · Touring

(Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry

October 7th, 2005 · No Comments

Guest is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills.
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Tags: Art and design · England · Podcast · Sport · Touring

(Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs

October 7th, 2005 · No Comments

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.
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Tags: England · Film · Podcast · Rolling interview · Touring

22 August 2005 Show - a countryside trip

September 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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, an encounter with a barn owl and a visit to a man buried in a [...]

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Tags: England · Podcast · Rolling interview · Touring