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Ron Cooper on Ron Cooper

August 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Ron Cooper is a legend in frame-building. He started as a fifteen-year-old apprentice with A.S. Gillott, and his frames have come to define the very best of the British lightweight style. He talks about the early days learning from master frame-builders like Jim Collier and Bill Philbrook, his own racing career and his commercial success [...]

 
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Looking back at Le Tour and ahead to ‘Bicycle Thieves’

July 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly shares his best moments of this year’s sensational Tour De France. Plus we look ahead to Bicycle Thieves, which combines theatre and BMXing on the streets of London, as part of the InTransit festival. Book tickets for just £4 here or by calling 0845 230 9769.

 
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Tags: Events · Film · London · People · Podcast · Tour de France

Velocio’s 7 Commandments for the Wise Cyclist

July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Paul de Vivie (1853-1930), who wrote as ‘Velocio’, was an early advocate of the bicycle, supposed inventor of the derailleur and the father of French cycle touring. Here are his seven commandments for the wise cyclist:
1. Keep your stops short and few.
2. Eat before you’re hungry, drink before you’re thirsty.
3. Never get too tired [...]

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Tags: France · History · People · Touring

Talking Le Tour with Paul Fournel

July 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments

An extended, hour long edition of the show featuring French writer, poet, cyclist and cultural ambassador Paul Fournel (pictured). We stroll from the French House in Soho to the Rapha Cycle Club in Clerkenwell, to visit an exhibition of a hundred years of racing bicycles. The exhibition runs for two more weeks and is well [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · France · Gear · History · Literature · London · People · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France

London Assembly Member Jenny Jones rides the Cycle Superhighway

July 16th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Jenny Jones asks all the right questions. Good, campaigning stuff from the Green Party Assembly member.

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Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Road safety

Gavin Turk’s ‘Les Bikes du Bois Rond’

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments

Tim Dawson joins artist Gavin Turk on the first of two rides in the East Anglian countryside. Plus a detailed look at the Mayor of London’s new cycle hire bikes, with Transport for London’s Gary McGowan, technical adviser to the special projects team.
To join the second of Gavin Turk’s rides, starting in Ipswich, on 17 [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · London · People · Podcast

Giro d’Italia at Look Mum No Hands

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments

As the Giro d’Italia enters its third week, we discuss Italy’s great stage race with Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly, in an experimental live broadcast from Look Mum No Hands, London’s newest and best cycle-cafe. Sam Humpheson shows us around the premises. The show also features a look back at Fausto Coppi, one of the [...]

 
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Tags: Italy · London · People · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France

Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization?

May 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments

A long, hard look at the Mayor of London’s plans for 12 cycle superhighways – bike routes from the outer boroughs along London’s main arterial roads. With Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson’s top transport adviser, Rob Ainsley of the Real Cycling blog, and Charlie Lloyd of the London Cycling Campaign.

 
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Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Road safety

We’re all Aristoteleans now

February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Nigel Warburton, whose Philosophy Bites is among the brightest stars in the podcasting firmament, appeared on The Bike Show late last year, talking about the ethics of running red traffic lights.
In the current issue of Prospect Magazine, he takes a deeper look at whether breaking the law can ever be morally justified. In a passage [...]

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Tags: Advocacy · People · Politics · Road safety

Well-being

January 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments

January is the perfect month to take a closer look at how to stay feeling good on the bike. In the studio to share their expertise are Michael Crebbin, a sports physio specialising in cycling-related problems, and Rebecca Bogue who teaches a yoga class designed especially for cyclists.
Contact Rebecca via the Bodywise studio in the [...]

 
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Jumble Jumble

January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

It’s the tenth day of Christmas and this week’s show is like a Christmas stocking with bulges in all the right places. Dr Steve Fabes is about to set off on a four and a half year cycle ride around the world, crossing six continents. He talks about his route, preparations and apprehensions. Any lover [...]

 
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Tags: Literature · People · Podcast · Touring

Red light means go (or does it?)

December 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments

Should cyclists stop at red lights? Why do we feel such a strong urge to keep rolling? Should our behavior be guided by the law of the land or the laws of common courtesy? What would Isaac Newton and Thomas Aquinas have to say about the matter? Bringing their expertise to a discussion of the [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · People · Podcast · Road safety · Science

Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics

November 16th, 2009 · 15 Comments

This week’s show looks at the chronic lack of bicycle mechanics with the Ninon Asuni of Bicycle Workshop. Ninon founded Bicycle Workshop nearly thirty years ago after deciding she’d had enough of working as a librarian. She’s now among Britain’s most highly regarded bicycle mechanics with a devoted following in London and the rest of [...]

 
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Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY)

November 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Bike Show moves into advocacy mode this week with guest in the studio Debra Rolfe, Campaigns Director of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC), Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 60,000+ members. Debra is spearheading the CTC’s new campaign against bad driving by motorists called Stop SMIDSY. The aim is to draw attention to the dangers [...]

 
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Cycling questions and answers from the Mayor of London: Oct 09

October 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Here are the cycling-related questions from the London Assembly answered by the Mayor this month. The questions cover a wide range of subjects, from lorries killing cyclists (including a question specifically about the Vallance Road/Whitechapel Road junction) to the new cycle superhighways, the London cycle hire scheme and much more.
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Tags: Advocacy · London · People · Politics

Cycle Chic

August 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

Riding with Amy Fleuriot, a young British fashion designer who’s Cyclodelic range of clothing and accessories is offering women a more stylish alternative to the typically drab clothing sold to cyclists. This is the final show in the current season. Thanks for listening!

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · History · London · People · Podcast · Rolling interview · Style · Women

From Sublime to Ridiculous

July 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Copenhagen is widely regarded as the world’s most cycle-friendly city. I ask Copenhagen’s Mayor Klaus Bondam what advice he gives to other city leaders in how to emulate the Danish capital. Multitalented musician, songwriter and cartoonist Peter Blegvad reads Alfred Jarry’s proto-absurdist short story “The Crucifixion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race”. Jarry (pictured, above) [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · France · History · Literature · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Tour de France

The end of the road

April 1st, 2009 · 34 Comments

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 [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport

16 March 2009: End of season finale – a bike pop epic

March 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In the last of the current season we drop in on a police bicycle auction to pick up a bargain. Plus a bike pop epic from the Grave Architects (pictured above) and we hear from Jo Upton, presenter of Bike Love, a bicycling radio show in Sydney, Australia.
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9 March 2009: Legends of the Rás

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Rás Tailteann is an 8 day stage race in the Republic of Ireland held each May since 1953. A particularly gruelling race, some say it is Ireland’s ‘Tour de France’ and it is a much cherished tradition, far more so than the Tour of Ireland. John Herety, Directeur Sportif of the Rapha-Condor road racing [...]

 
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