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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 · 9 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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Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics

November 16th, 2009 · 14 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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Tags: Gear · London · People · Podcast

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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Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · Events · London · People · Podcast · Road safety

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.
I’ll be publishing the digest, [...]

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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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16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession

February 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

With the UK mired deep in recession, unemployment on the rise, the value of the pound going down and consumer confidence at an all time low, we ask what effect this is having on the cycling business. We hear from the owners of two of London’s new breed of bicycle boutiques (Tour de Ville and [...]

 
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9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics

February 10th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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 [...]

 
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20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle

October 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The latest on moves by the London Assembly to reduce the dangers posed by lorries to cyclists. Plus an extended talk by Andrew Ritchey, inventor of the Brompton, the folding miracle that is the toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The talk was given over the summer at the iFest 08 in Barcelona. It tells the [...]

 
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6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two)

October 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The concluding episode of a two-part feature on the story of Dr Alex Moulton and the reinvention of the bicycle. We pick up the story with the launch of the Moulton space frame design (pictured left) in the early eighties. Featuring interviews with eaturing interviews with Dr Alex Moulton, Shaun Moulton, Tony Hadland, Michael Woolf, [...]

 
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29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one)

September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the way, continues to push the boundaries of cutting edge engineering. Moultons have been feted by architects and designers, won races and broken speed records, and are taken [...]

 
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22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’

September 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

 
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8 September 2008: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend

September 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Remembering Ian Hibell, the world’s most accomplished and intrepid long-distance cyclist and adventurer, who was run down and killed on a road in Greece last month, aged 74. He’d been on a ‘training ride’ which began in Hull (England) in preparation for his next trip to Nepal and Tibet. Nic Henderson talks about his friend [...]

 
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1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two)

September 3rd, 2008 · 12 Comments

Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure: from Mexico to Alaska, through Siberia, Japan, China and central Asia.
Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is [...]

 
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