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London to Bristol (part two)

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

In an extended podcast edition of this week’s show, the journey from London to Bristol continues along the Ridgeway (pictured, left) to Avebury, one of the largest prehistoric stone circles in Europe. After a night by Lacock Abbey the route follows the Avon to Bath and the old railway track to Bristol. Featuring David Evans [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · England · History · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Touring

London to Bristol (part one)

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Part one of a ride from London to Bristol, in which presenter Jack Thurston is guided by listeners to the show. First stop is St Giles’ Church in Stoke Poges, home to the ‘bicycle window’ (pictured behind Jack and Denis Hartley, the Verger of the Church). One element of the window dates from 1642 and [...]

 
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Tags: England · History · Podcast · Rides · Touring

No Bike Week: What happened?

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

A report on No Bike Week, in which a handful of courageous cyclists agree to abstain from two wheels for seven days. Find out what happened. And to read how the No Bike Week meme is evolving into something more akin to a direct action protest, check out No Cycle Day over at Crap [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · London · Podcast · Tour de France

Radiocycle

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

The Bike Show emerges from its late spring hibernation into the bright sunlight of the summer season. This week’s show features a ride south from the Resonance FM studio to the southern limit of the station’s 5km FM broadcast signal at the Herne Hill Velodrome. With guests James Wilson, lecturer in radio at Glasgow Metropolitan [...]

 
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Tags: London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Science

Podcast only: Spring Classics Special Edition

April 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

The Bike Show may be off air, but come with us on a trip to Belgium, home of the Flemish hard men and De Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Along the way I get a surprise tour of the legendary showers at the Roubaix velodrome (pictured left).
Don’t forget to take The Bike Show’s [...]

 
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Tags: France · History · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Sport

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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Tags: Bicycle music · London · People · Podcast

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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Tags: History · People · Podcast · Sport

2 March 2009: Riding and writing

March 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

The Ride Journal was launched last year to widespread acclaim. Issue two is at the printers. Philip and Andrew Diprose, editor and art director, explain how they came to start a journal of personal stories about how bikes have changed people’s lives.
Among the articles in Issue 2 of The Ride Journal is Rediscovered by [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · France · Literature · Podcast · Sport

23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week

February 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments

Bicycle polo. It’s the latest sensation that’s sweeping the nation. After an account of bicycle polo played with Hungarian counts in 1934 from Patrick Leigh Fermour’s classic Between the Woods and the Water, we travel to De Beauvoir Town to find out how the game is being played in 2009. The European Hard Court Bicycle [...]

 
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Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Sport

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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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Gear · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · Style

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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Tags: Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · United States

26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland Coast

January 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Riding the Northumberland coast from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Daniel Start, author of the best-selling Wild Swimming, a guide to natural swimming spots in Britain. Wild Swimming Coast (the salt-water version) will be published in the late spring. To enter the competition to win a signed copy, send an email detailing your favourite wild swimming [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · England · Podcast · Rides · Sport · Touring

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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Tags: Art and design · Gear · London · People · Podcast

13 October 2008: Emergency - Lorries Killing Cyclists

October 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

After a summer of fun on two wheels, we turn to more serious matters. The entire show this week is devoted to the problem of lorries killing cyclists in London. With Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists and Cynthia Barlow, chairwoman of RoadPeace, the national campaign against deaths on Britain’s roads. We also hear from London [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · London · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Rolling interview

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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Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Touring

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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Tags: Art and design · Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Style · Touring

27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town

September 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Bicycle Film Festival comes to London from 1-5 October. Laura Fletcher is the BFF’s London ambassador and she previews a handful of highlights from the seven screenings at the Barbican Cinema plus all the parties, art shows, polo matches and roller-racing that make the Festival a veritable jamboree of bicycle culture. Plus a very [...]

 
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Tags: Advocacy · Art and design · Bicycle messengers · Bicycle music · England · Events · Film · London · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview

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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Tags: Bicycle music · England · Gear · History · Italy · London · People · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Sport · Style · Touring · United States

15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?

September 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Do the rising oil price, the growing concern about man-made climate change and breakthroughs in cycle design mean we’re on the verge of a pedal-powered cargo revolution? Discussing the past, present and future of cargo bikes and pedicabs is Leslie Wacker, a Chicago native who placed second in the cargo bike race at this year’s [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · England · London · Podcast · Politics · Rolling interview · United States · Women