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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

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

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

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

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

Summer antics: Cycle Camping in France

September 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments

On this week’s show I promised some documentary evidence of my cycle tour in France last month. Well here it is. All filmed on a cheap and cheerful Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07 compact digital camera with a video mode, so please excuse some less than perfect audio quality.
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Part two:

My route took me from Biarritz on [...]

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Tags: Film · France · Sport · Touring

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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Tags: Bicycle music · England · People · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Touring

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

28 July 2008: Looking back at Le Tour 2008

July 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Looking back at this year’s Tour De France, with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and author and broadcaster Graeme Fife. As well as discussing the racing, we go into what it means for a small towns when it plays host to a stage of Le Tour de France. You can listen to an hour-long [...]

 
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Tags: France · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France

30 June 2008: London Lidos by Bicycle

June 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments

A tour of London lidos by bicycle with Jason Cobb, a lido enthusiast, cyclist, photographer and author of Onion Bag Blog, a blog devoted to life in the Stockwell-Oval-Brixton triangle. Taking in Brockwell Lido, the ghost of Kennington Lido, the Serpentine Lido, the refurbished London Fields Lido and an unexpected audience with Brixton’s wheelbuilding legend [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Sport

18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix

February 19th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Jack Thurston is away and in his place Amy Cooper presents a show devoted to the swashbuckling Trixie Chix, London’s female fixed wheel freestylers. Will Amy and her sit-up-and-beg town bike cut the mustard with the trackstanding, bike polo playing, long skidding, backwards circling Trixies? Find out…
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Tags: Fixed wheel · London · Podcast · Sport · Style · Women

4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps)

February 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikipedia for mapping and cartography. OSM offers endless customisation possibilities, is entirely open source and in many parts of the world is rivaling the best online and [...]

 
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Tags: England · London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Science · Sport · Touring

17 December 2007: London Olympics 2012

December 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Does the coming of Olympics in 2012 spell disaster for cycle sport in London or will it bring much needed regeneration of a neglected part of the city? A ride with Patrick Field around the perimeter fence of the construction site in north east London and an interview with Michael Humphreys, chair of the [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · Environment · London · Podcast · Rolling interview · Sport

2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives

July 2nd, 2007 · 5 Comments

In conversation with Julian Bray, a journalist and rider with the Rapha Condor team. Julian came to competitive cycling after falling in love with the continental tradition of the cyclosportive: mass-participation road races of historic or cultural significance, such as the annual Etape du Tour and the Gran Fondo Campagnolo. We discuss the appeal of [...]

 
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Tags: Podcast · Sport · Tour de France · Touring

25 June 2007: Flandrien

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Preview of a new exhibition of stunning photographs by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Stefan Vanfleteren that capture the essence of Flemish cycle racing. Interviews with Vanfleteren and with British former world champion Tony Doyle and three times Paris-Roubaix winner Johan Museeuw aka ‘The Lion of Flanders’. Live music from the sensational Orchestre International du Vetex. If [...]

 
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