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Entries Tagged as 'Gear'

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

11 December 2006 - The Christmas edition

December 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Back in the Resonance FM studio with Danish bike messenger elf Therese Bjorn to talk Christmas on bicycles. What to buy, what to do… and we take a look at the new London Scorcher bicycle from Velorution and Therese gives a thumbs up to Pac Designs messenger bags.

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Tags: Gear · London · Podcast

13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities

November 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

This week’s studio guest is none other than David Thurston, my very own dad. A London cyclist since the 1970s when he lost his driving license, he explored China in the early 1980s on a Bickerton folder and is now discovering that with Parkinson’s Disease, cycling is more fun than walking.
Also featuring an interview with [...]

 
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Tags: Gear · Podcast · Science · Touring

23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 - Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets

October 24th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Jack Thurston and Jo Upton in search of the best bicycle gadget at Cycle 2006, the UK’s biggest cycling exhibition and trade fair. Glow in the dark pedals, GPS tools, bike storage, heart rate monitors and lights galore.
We are also granted an exclusive audience with the legendary champion of all cycling champions, Eddy Merckx. Eddy [...]

 
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Tags: Gear · Podcast · Sport

31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory

August 1st, 2006 · 2 Comments

In this last show of the current season we’re getting technical, with a visit to the Brompton factory. Bromptons are the best all round folding bicycles in the world and the invention of Andrew Ritchie, who started making them in his flat more than 25 years ago. They are still made in west London - [...]

 
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Tags: Gear · London · Podcast · Science

19 June 2006: It’s Bike Week!

June 19th, 2006 · 2 Comments

This year’s Bike Week coincides with the London Architecture Biennale, which has got a lot of cyclists thinking about architecture and a lot of architects thinking about cycling. At the launch of the Reinventing The Bike Shed exhibition, I speak with organisers Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff and Stephanie Laslett of Feilden Clegg Bradley and Associates [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Gear · London · Podcast · Touring

28 November 2005: Surviving the winter on two wheels

November 29th, 2005 · 2 Comments

This week newbie cyclist Alex Crawford and veteran London bike messenger Buffalo Bill swap notes on how to survive the winter on two wheels. Featuring interviews with Simon from Brixton Cycles and Simon Mottram from Rapha. We also discuss the distressing news of yet another killing of a London cyclist by a left-turning heavy goods [...]

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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Gear · London · Podcast · Road safety · Style

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

20 December 2004

October 7th, 2005 · No Comments

Featuring the Rinky-Dink Bicycle Powered Sound System, comedy from George Lopez and bicycle advice from Tall Jurgen of the London Bicycle Repair Shop in Waterloo.
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Tags: Bicycle music · Gear · Podcast · Science