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 playing, long skidding, backwards circling Trixies? Find out…
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Entries Tagged as 'Fixed wheel'
18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix
February 19th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Sport · Style · Women
Pay tribute to the mighty Sheldon Brown
February 5th, 2008 · 17 Comments
Earlier this evening I learned with great sadness that Sheldon Brown, the mighty, generous and wonderfully eccentric cyclist and repository of so much bicycle knowledge, has died. On behalf of everyone who helps to make The Bike Show, I extend our deepest sympathies to Sheldon’s family and friends.
Despite being a regular visitor to his encyclopedic [...]
Tags: Fixed wheel · People · Touring · United States
10 December 2007: How to Win at Roller-Racing
December 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments
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 on bikes”) with Robert Collins of the Daily Telegraph.
Get down to the Bicycology film night on Thursday [...]
Tags: Bicycle messengers · Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Roller racing · Rolling interview
3 December 2007: Fixed Fever
December 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 and excesses of the scene. Featuring an extended interview with the mystery man behind the [...]
Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Style · 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. Come back soon for details of the London 2007 performance of the Symphony for [...]
Tags: Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · Podcast · United States
26 February 2007: Calling All Bicycle Filmmakers!
February 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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 film, even if you’re not an experienced filmmaker. We also tap our feet to the [...]
Tags: Film · Fixed wheel · Podcast · Sport
9 October 2006 - Mississippi Tales (part two)
October 9th, 2006 · 3 Comments
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 Hurricane Katrina and has an fascinating encounter with The Voice.
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Tags: Fixed wheel · Podcast · Touring · United States
2 October 2006 - Mississippi Tales (part one)
October 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
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 a saddlebag for all his worldly possessions. Safely back home, he joins me in in [...]
Tags: Fixed wheel · Podcast · Touring · United States
26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling
June 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments
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 Rapha-Condor cycle racing team and a 43 inch bunnyhop by Rich Johnson, Britain’s leading trick/stunt [...]
Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Sport · Touring · United States
17 April 2006: Cycling in New York City (part two)
April 18th, 2006 · 4 Comments
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 sociological analysis of ‘hipsters’ in Williamsburg.
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Fixed wheel · Podcast · Rolling interview · Style · United States
18 February 2008: Trixie Chix [23:14m]: 
