Kieron Yates and Matt Tempest report from Paris on the Vélib bike hire system that has brough 20,000 bicycles to the streets and transformed the French capital overnight into a cycling metropolis. Can it work in London?
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Entries Tagged as 'France'
25 February 2008: Will Vélib work in London?
February 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: France · London · Podcast
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 […]
Tags: Bicycle music · Events · France · London · People · Podcast · Style
11 June 2007: ‘Slow Bicycling’ in Italy; on two wheels in Provence
June 11th, 2007 · 6 Comments
The Bike Show this week has a distinctly Mediterranean and gastronomic feel. Kieron Yates reports from northern Italy, the world capital of the Slow Food movement, on a ’slow bicycle’ ride along the length of the River Po (for more on ABICI bikes, look here) Meanwhile, Jack Thurston is joined by William Greswell in the […]
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5 February 2007: Cyclosportives, bicycle podcasting and Budapest
February 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments
In this week’s show we hear from Patrick Field about how to survive the grueling Paris-Brest-Paris: by riding a recumbent. Also a look at the blossoming world of bicycle radio and podcasting and a look ahead to the best in cyclosportives in 2007.
Links:
Bikescape podcast from San Francisco.
Rapha’s ‘Culture Clash’ Roller Race at Shoreditch Town […]
Tags: France · Podcast · Sport · Touring
29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle
February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
First run in 1891 as a race designed to demonstrate the practicality of the bicycle, Paris Brest Paris has since become a four yearly event that attracts long distance cyclists from around the world. This year is a Paris Brest Paris year and Kieron Yates - this week standing in for Jack Thurston - talks […]
Tags: France · Podcast · Science · Touring
17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub
July 17th, 2006 · No Comments
This week’s show is a Tour De France special recorded at the Charles Lamb pub in north London. The Charles Lamb is one of the few places in London that is showing Le Tour this year. I am joined by Therese Bjorn, a former European Bicycle Messenger Champion and Matt Seaton, cycling correspondent at The […]
Tags: Bicycle messengers · Food · France · London · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France
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 […]
Tags: England · France · London · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France · Touring
21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Maillot Jaune
October 7th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Spotlight on a classic 1965 film about the Tour De France “Pour Un Maillot Jaune” (dir. Claude Lelouch). Guest in the studio is William Greswell.
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Tags: Film · France · Podcast · Tour de France
18 July 2005: Le Tour De France
August 13th, 2005 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: France · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France · Touring
18 April 2005: Paris-Roubaix Classic
August 4th, 2005 · No Comments
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
Tags: France · Podcast · Sport
25 July Show: Johnny Green
July 28th, 2005 · No Comments
In the studio is Johnny Green, former road manager of the Clash, talking about his other passion in life, Le Tour De France. In his new book ‘Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More’, Green gives a vivid and at times hilarious account of life backstage at Le Tour in 2003 and 2004 and finds […]
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