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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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Tags: England · Gear · History · London · People · Podcast

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

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

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

Un Tour de France de Londres with Stephen Bayley

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, Stephen Bayley leads a ride around the best of French architecture, art and design to be found on the streets of London. Stephen Bayley is the Observer’s architecture and design critic, the founding director of the Design Museum and in 1989 was a made a Chevalier [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · Art and design · History · London · Podcast · Rides · Tour de France

Now We Are Six (part one)

June 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

It’s time to blow out the candles on The Bike Show’s great big carbo-loaded birthday cake. 6 years old! To mark the occasion this week’s show features some of the more memorable moments from the first three years of experimental two wheeled art radio. Years four to six in due course.
In this mix you’ll hear [...]

 
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A Journey Into Tranquility

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Sustrans is the sustainable transportation charity and lobby group that pioneered the national cycle network. It is also one of the country’s biggest commissioners of public art. Today’s show is devoted to one of Sustrans’s new Prospectives series, a handful of deliberately experimental projects that are more conceptual and investigative in nature than the more [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Environment · Podcast · Science

A Life On Two Wheels

June 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

This week, a guest production by Stuart Watt. Life’s race from childhood to old age, as told by those who live it on two wheels. Original music by Chris Annetts. If you’d like to contribute material to The Bike Show, please get in touch bikeshow@resonancefm.com

 
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Tags: Podcast · Sport

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

Season opener: Berlin, bikes & public art, Dunwich Dynamo

May 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Can London ever be as good a cycling city as Berlin? Helen Pidd of the Guardian and Matt Tempest give their views. Artist Mila Lipowicz talks about East London Local(Eyes): an interactive video installation that recreates the feeling of riding a bike around East London. Katy Hallett of Sustrans on commissioning public art for the [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · London · Podcast

The Racing Year with Lionel Birnie

February 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments

In an off-season podcast-only extended episode, Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly joins me to talk about the year ahead in professional road racing. We talk about the season-openers in the Gulf, the Monuments and Cobbled Classics and of course the Grand Tours, where Britain’s Team Sky is hoping to make a big impact in its [...]

 
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Tags: Italy · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France

Do It Yourself

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

David Kitchen, aka Velocio, set up the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum almost three years ago. In a short time it has spawned an active and inventive cycling community and in the process the forum has grown to become the world’s eleventh most visited cycling website. David talks about the success of the [...]

 
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Tags: Art and design · Bicycle music · Fixed wheel · Podcast · Rides

If the bike fits…

January 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Following on from last week’s show on well-being, we look at the importance of getting a good fit between rider and machine. Scherritt Knoesen of The Bike Whisperer, is a leading London-based bike fitter. We talk geometry, contact points and pedaling action. Read Grant Peterson’sPetersen’s article The Shoes Ruse on the folly of clip-in pedals [...]

 
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Tags: Gear · Podcast · Science · Sport · Touring

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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Tags: London · People · Podcast · Science · Sport

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

Reading and riding: Christmas books special

December 8th, 2009 · 16 Comments

Tim Dawson, cycling columnist for the Sunday Times, runs the Cycling Books website, the most compendious review website for cycling books. He joins me in the studio to discuss the literature of cycling, from Tour de France to cycle touring. Paul Fournel reads another extract from Need for the Bike. Below is a list of [...]

 
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Tags: France · History · Literature · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France · Touring

Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part two)

November 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments

The cycle camping tour continues into the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, through Vermont and into Massachusetts. Struggles with thunderstorms and flying insects and a visit to the Crane paper mill where US dollar bills are made. Picture above shows the view back down the road from the summit of Whiteface Mountain.
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Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part one)

November 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

The first of two features on a north American cycle tour undertaken over the summer. Starting in cycle-friendly Montreal and Quebec’s routes vertes and camping on the shores of Lake Champlain, this episode ends with a mildly disturbing encounter with an over-talkative former NYPD officer and child abuse investigator.
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Tags: Podcast · Rides · Touring · United States