the bike show

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 [...]

 

 21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure [30:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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In this week’s show we remember ‘Major’ Marshall Taylor, a world champion cyclist from the 1890s and the first black American sports superstar. Kieron Yates talks about Major Taylor’s life with Lynne Tolman of the Major Taylor Association. We also ride the 2006 Etape Du Tour with Alex Murray.
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 Remembering Major Taylor - the fastest man on the planet: Play Now | Play in Popup

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This week’s show features an interview with David Herlihy, author of ‘Bicycle‘ the recently published definitive history of the bicycle (Yale University Press). Kieron Yates reports on the London-Edinburgh-London audax/endurance ride.
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Following the Bike Show’s January 2005 feature on Kraftwerk and bicycling, I was invited to write an article for a new road racing magazine called Rouleur, looking deeper into the obsession that the German godfathers of technopop have for cycling.
Rouleur is published by those fabulous people at Rapha and is now out - £9 - [...]

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Feature on the more than century-old London Velodrome at Herne Hill, and interview with Graeme Geddes of the Friends of the London Velodrome. A 1961 IBM computer playing ‘Daisy Daisy’, Velorution weblog, The Mountains to the South by Simon Kunath and Richard Kunath.
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