http://thebikeshow.net Podcast and blog of the world's most popular bicycling radio show, rolling since 2004 Tue, 15 May 2012 14:22:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2012 bikeshow@resonancefm.com (Resonance FM) bikeshow@resonancefm.com (Resonance FM) bicycle, podcast, resonance, london, bike 1440 http://thebikeshow.net/images/logo144.png http://thebikeshow.net 144 144 Podcast of the bicycling radio show from Resonance FM in London, UK. Since 2004, The Bike Show has covered cycling, creativity and society from Kraftwerk to Critical Mass, from Le Tour de France to cycle touring in France, from bicycle poetry to bic[...] Resonance FM's bicycle radio show, in a podcast format. Since 2004, The Bike Show has covered cycling, creativity and society from Kraftwerk to Critical Mass, from Le Tour de France to cycle touring in France, from bicycle poetry to bicycle maintenance. bicycle, cycling, bike, london, resonance, cycle, touring, tour, de, france, cycle, sport Resonance FM Resonance FM bikeshow@resonancefm.com no no http://thebikeshow.net/do-it-yourself/ http://thebikeshow.net/do-it-yourself/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:14:40 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=1011 http://thebikeshow.net/do-it-yourself/feed/ 0 0:30:40 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 become the world’s elev[...] 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 become the world’s eleventh most visited cycling website. David talks about the success of the forum and gives pointers for anyone thinking of using the web to bring cyclists together including how to bridge the online and offline worlds. The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra combine music, theatre, sculpture and bicycles with a sometimes chaotic and often subversive DIY ethic. Their debut album Nine Doors is out next month as a free/flexible price digital download. Band members David Birchall, Zeke Clough, Josh Kopecek, Huw Wahl talk about the sonic potential of the bicycle, improvisation and creating culture out of nothing. Read a review onEast London Lines of the Orchestra’s performance last week at Barden’s Boudoir. Upcoming live dates are on the Orchestra’s MySpace page. This is the last show of the current season. The Bike Show returns to the airwaves on 5 May 2010. Podcast, Rides Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-childhood-daze/ http://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-childhood-daze/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:18:10 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=902 http://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-childhood-daze/feed/ 0 0:28:29 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* in p[...] 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* in person at the Calder Bookshop. We get the inside scoop on the much-awaited Sturmey Archer S3X, three speed fixed gear hub, from SA’s General Manager Alan Clarke. If you are a parent or teacher and want your school or your kids school to be a Bike It school, you can ask on the Sustrans website. Image credit: Cycling England 2008 Play on links below. Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) are here. *If you buy Need for the Bike by following the link (left), some of the money goes to Resonance FM! Advocacy, England, Gear, Literature, Podcast Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/the-end-of-the-road/ http://thebikeshow.net/the-end-of-the-road/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:52:36 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=552 http://thebikeshow.net/the-end-of-the-road/feed/ 34 0:17:40 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 me[...] 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 Repair Company. Please note that this special episode was broadcast on 1 April and is what is known, in France, as Un Poisson D’Avril. Advocacy, People, Podcast, Politics, Sport Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-polo-and-no-bike-week/ http://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-polo-and-no-bike-week/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:20:23 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=458 http://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-polo-and-no-bike-week/feed/ 11 0:29:37 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 Beauvoi[...] 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 Town to find out how the game is being played in 2009. The European Hard Court Bicycle Polo Championships will be held in London this August. For more on where to play, there are lots of listings here. No Bike Week – what happens to a cyclist when he or she can’t ride for a week? Let’s find out. More details soon. It’s likely that No Bike Week will take place at some point between now and Easter 2009. Expresssions of interest to bikeshow@resonancefm.com Picture credit: Roxy Erickson. Play on links below. Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) over here. London, Podcast, Sport Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/9-february-2009-british-cycling-bikesnobnyc/ http://thebikeshow.net/9-february-2009-british-cycling-bikesnobnyc/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:54:10 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=401 http://thebikeshow.net/9-february-2009-british-cycling-bikesnobnyc/feed/ 9 0:29:14 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 wit[...] 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 BMX and track racing. Someone who is all too familiar with the fixed wheel phenomenon is BikeSnob NYC, who regularly wins gold medals for “systematically and mercilessly disassembling, flushing, greasing, and re-packing the cycling culture”. Over a few ales, the BikeSnob offers his reflections on 2008 and his hopes and fears for the coming year. We talk penny farthings, the Opinionated Cyclist and how to survive the New York winter on two wheels. Photo credit: knackeredhack Play on links below (MP3). Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) over here. People, Podcast, Politics, Sport Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/18-february-2008-trixie-chix/ http://thebikeshow.net/18-february-2008-trixie-chix/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:25:39 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2008/02/19/18-february-2008-trixie-chix/ http://thebikeshow.net/18-february-2008-trixie-chix/feed/ 10 0:23:14 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 pl[...] 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… MP3 | Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) London, Podcast, Sport, Style, Women Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/pay-your-tributes-to-the-mighty-sheldon-brown/ http://thebikeshow.net/pay-your-tributes-to-the-mighty-sheldon-brown/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:37:42 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2008/02/05/pay-your-tributes-to-the-mighty-sheldon-brown/ http://thebikeshow.net/pay-your-tributes-to-the-mighty-sheldon-brown/feed/ 18 http://thebikeshow.net/10-december-2007-how-to-win-at-roller-racing/ http://thebikeshow.net/10-december-2007-how-to-win-at-roller-racing/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:24:25 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2007/12/11/10-december-2007-how-to-win-at-roller-racing/ http://thebikeshow.net/10-december-2007-how-to-win-at-roller-racing/feed/ 3 0:29:40 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 Bil[...] 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 13 December at the RampArt Social Centre, London E1 and of course to Rollapaluza IX-mas at the Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1. MP3 128kb | Other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) London, Podcast Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/3-december-2007-fixed-fever/ http://thebikeshow.net/3-december-2007-fixed-fever/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:50:24 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2007/12/04/3-december-2007-fixed-fever/ http://thebikeshow.net/3-december-2007-fixed-fever/feed/ 2 0:30:16 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 exten[...] 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 Bike Snob NYC blog, Roxy Erickson of London’s Trixie Chix and Gabriel Nogueira, one of the prime movers in the small but growing fixed wheel crowd in Curitiba, southern Brazil. MP3 | Other file formats (Ogg Vorbis etc) This week’s show also features the soundtrack of the fantastic short film Bicycle Samba, by Sophie Clements and John Hendicott. Fixed Links: London Fixed Gear Forum Fixed Gear Gallery Sheldon “Coasting is bad for you” Brown Fixed Wheel UK London Bike Polo Update (5 December): ‘DVD extras’ from the Bike Snob NYC for podium finishers: On why he came to write the blog (MP3: 1’44″) On his true identity(MP3: 2’18″) London, Podcast, Style Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/12-march-2007-the-word-from-san-francisco-and-a-singing-bicycle-prototype/ http://thebikeshow.net/12-march-2007-the-word-from-san-francisco-and-a-singing-bicycle-prototype/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:07:35 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2007/03/12/12-march-2007-the-word-from-san-francisco-and-a-singing-bicycle-prototype/ http://thebikeshow.net/12-march-2007-the-word-from-san-francisco-and-a-singing-bicycle-prototype/feed/ 3 0:28:41 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 p[...] 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 everyone who made it happen, and to everyone who’s tuned in. We’ll be back in the early summer. Update (November 2007): The Symphony was performed in July 2007. You can hear a recording in this show. MP3 Download Ogg Vorbis Download Podcast Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/26-february-2007-calling-all-bicycle-filmmakers/ http://thebikeshow.net/26-february-2007-calling-all-bicycle-filmmakers/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:52:43 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/2007/02/27/26-february-2007-calling-all-bicycle-filmmakers/ http://thebikeshow.net/26-february-2007-calling-all-bicycle-filmmakers/feed/ 1 0:29:29 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[...] 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 all time grooviest soundtrack of a cycling film: a half hour film about the London-Holyhead road race, at the time the world’s longest single day race. Two great British-made bicycling short films that ought to be featured in this year’s Bicycle Film Festival are: Four Minute Tour, a stunning look at the Tour de France, featuring audio from The Bike Show. Country Commute, a hilarious and charming ride across the Cornish countryside, featuring plenty-o-helmet camera. MP3 Download Ogg Vorbis Download Film, Podcast, Sport Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/9-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-two/ http://thebikeshow.net/9-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-two/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:47:00 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=65 http://thebikeshow.net/9-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-two/feed/ 3 0:00:01 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 Katri[...] 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. MP3 DOWNLOAD Ogg Vorbis DOWNLOAD Podcast, Touring Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/2-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-one/ http://thebikeshow.net/2-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-one/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:33:00 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=64 http://thebikeshow.net/2-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-one/feed/ 1 0:00:01 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 [...] 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 conversation and we play music and interviews from along the way. The journey took in frozen Mormons, naked yoga, Klan-survivors, sweat and heat, roadkill, cheap motels and plenty of down home blues. Second half next Monday the 9th October. MP3 DOWNLOAD Ogg Vorbis DOWNLOAD Podcast, Touring Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/26-june-2006-extreme-cycling/ http://thebikeshow.net/26-june-2006-extreme-cycling/#comments Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:27:00 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=56 http://thebikeshow.net/26-june-2006-extreme-cycling/feed/ 3 0:00:01 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-[...] 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 rider. MP3 DOWNLOAD OGG VORBIS DOWNLOAD London, Podcast, Sport, Touring Resonance FM no no http://thebikeshow.net/17-april-2006-cycling-in-new-york-city-part-two/ http://thebikeshow.net/17-april-2006-cycling-in-new-york-city-part-two/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:54:00 +0000 Jack Thurston http://thebikeshow.net/?p=50 http://thebikeshow.net/17-april-2006-cycling-in-new-york-city-part-two/feed/ 5 0:29:49 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 analy[...] 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. Ogg Vorbis Podcast, Style Resonance FM no no