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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

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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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

London cycle hire scheme - the lowdown

February 12th, 2009 · 8 Comments

An accident of geography means that, official speaking, I’m a Lambeth Cyclist but I’m a Southwark Cyclist at heart, not least because of the dynamic Barry Mason, the quirky Rob Ainsley, the luminous Rebecca Lack and the feisty Ann Warren. I can even see the Southwark-Lambeth ‘county line’ from my doorstep. So I was delighted [...]

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Tags: Advocacy · England · London · Politics · Road safety

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

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

CycleSafeLondon.com

September 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Two cyclists have been killed and another injured in collisions with lorries on the streets of London in the past week. This brings the unofficial total fatalities in 2008 to 8 or 9, depending on whether you count someone killed while wheeling their bike a cyclist or pedestrian. Whichever way, it’s 8 or 9 too [...]

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Tags: Advocacy · Events · London · Politics · Road safety

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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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

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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Tags: Literature · People · Podcast · Politics · Rides · Rolling interview · Sport · Touring · United States

11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one)

August 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the first of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure from Yorkshire to South Africa and Chile to Colombia. Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is out now, [...]

 
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4 August 2008: Cycling, politics and ideology

August 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments

On this week’s show we ask whether the bicycle and cycling are inherently left-wing or right-wing. Featuring Ruth Beale and Karen Breneman, two artists who recently rode together from London to the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home in Liverpool in search of cycling’s socialist and non-conformist past, present and future. [...]

 
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7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A ride along the splendid London end of the Grand Union Canal with Rob Ainsley, London cyclist and author of 50 Quirky Bike Rides, a new book about weird and wonderful places to go on bicycles in England and Wales. We visit a canal that passes over a motorway and take advantage of a little [...]

 
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16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones

June 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments


 
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Resonance FM benefit 18 May: Robyn Hitchcock & more

May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Resonance FM presents a night of live music on Sunday 18 May, with all proceeds going to keep the radio station going in 2008 and beyond.
Headlining is English psychedelic folk rock legend and occasional bicyclist Robyn Hitchcock (pictured below) with Terry Edwards; Kiss Akabusi, masters of deconstructed Black Metal/Chinese pop/Reggae and special guests from [...]

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