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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

Reading and riding: Christmas books special

December 8th, 2009 · 15 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

Getting to Le Grand Départ

October 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments

They may still be testing the syringes used by riders in the 2009 Tour De France but that hasn’t stopped the organisers announcing the course for the 2010 edition. And it’s a cracker. I didn’t much care for this year’s figure-of-eight route with its anticlimactic ascent of Le Ventoux and total neglect of northern France [...]

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Tags: Sport · Tour de France

Le Tour Redux

July 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Joining me in the studio is Graeme Fife, author of the definitive account of Le Tour de France, updated each year. He’s also author of the beautiful Rapha Guide to the Great Road Climbs of the Pyrenees.
We discuss this year’s Tour de France, the most spectacular for some time, featuring the drama over the [...]

 
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Tags: Sport · Tour de France

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

Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher

July 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Pedal Pusher is a play that follows three cyclists — Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong — in the most dramatic recent era of professional cycle sport: from the young prodigy Jan Ullrich winning the Tour in 1997, the doping scandals of 1998, Armstrong’s conquest of cancer and ending with Pantani’s exile from the [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Events · History · Literature · London · Podcast · Politics · Sport · Tour de France

Tour de France books list

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve made a list of my top 12 books for reading during the Tour de France. Apparently if you buy any of these books from Amazon after following the link from here, then Resonance FM gets some money. Cool, isn’t it? Get a great book and help keep the world’s best radio station on air. [...]

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Tags: Literature · Tour de France

Tour de Farce?

July 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A long, hard look at doping in professional cycling, with journalist Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly and theatre director Roland Smith, whose play Pedal Pusher, opens in London on 7th July.

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Tags: Podcast · Science · Sport · Tour de France

No Bike Week: What happened?

June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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

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

14 July 2008: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets

July 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Celebrating Bastille Day and the first week of Le Tour De France plus a discussion of civilised streets with Louise Duggan, streets advisor at the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Just six days until this year’s Dunwich Dynamo….
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Tags: Advocacy · Architecture · Environment · Events · France · London · Podcast · Rides · Rolling interview · Tour de France

23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive

June 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Featuring an interview with Stephen Bayley, design editor of The Observer, about his guided cycle ride around the houses and homes of celebrated London artists and architects which kicks of a fantastic programme of bicycle tours as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Stephanie Laslett of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios explains why architects love [...]

 
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Tags: Architecture · Art and design · Events · Literature · London · People · Podcast · Rides · Style · Tour de France

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

18 June 2007: Style on two wheels

June 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. Andrea Casalotti of Velorution and Jean-Marie Orhan (Frenchman-about-town and founding member of the Tweed Cycling Club) offer sartorial advice to urban cyclists. Tribute is paid to the stylish riders of the golden era of professional bicycle racing, including a pilgrimage up Le Mont Ventoux [...]

 
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Tags: Podcast · Sport · Style · Tour de France · Touring

11 June 2007: ‘Slow Bicycling’ in Italy; on two wheels in Provence

June 11th, 2007 · 6 Comments

The Bike Show this week has a distinctly Mediterranean and gastronomic feel. Kieron Yates reports from northern Italy, the world capital of the Slow Food movement, on a ’slow bicycle’ ride along the length of the River Po (for more on ABICI bikes, look here) Meanwhile, Jack Thurston is joined by William Greswell in the [...]

 
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Tags: Food · France · Italy · Podcast · Tour de France · Touring

28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

This week features a ride in the hills of north Kent hills with writer, broadcaster and cyclist Graeme Fife. Graeme is the author of several of the best English language books about cycling and Le Tour de France. His new book has just been published. It’s a very personal memoir entitled The Beautiful Machine: A [...]

 
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Tags: Literature · Podcast · Rolling interview · Sport · Tour de France · Touring

14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Returning for the summer season, The Bike Show turns to the trials of US cycling star Floyd Landis, whose sensational victory in the 2006 Tour de France was thrown into doubt after he failed a test for the banned drug testosterone. We also hear an extended talk on road danger in a global context by [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle music · Podcast · Politics · Road safety · Tour de France · United States

22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling

January 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments

Could 2007 be the best year yet for cycling in London? In the studio with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. We discuss the coming of Le Tour de France to London, the 15th Dunwich Dynamo and other group rides organized by Southwark Cyclists and ask whether London cycling [...]

 
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Tags: London · Podcast · Roller racing · Sport · Tour de France · Touring

17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub

July 17th, 2006 · No Comments

This week’s show is a Tour De France special recorded at the Charles Lamb pub in north London. The Charles Lamb is one of the few places in London that is showing Le Tour this year. I am joined by Therese Bjorn, a former European Bicycle Messenger Champion and Matt Seaton, cycling correspondent at The [...]

 
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Tags: Bicycle messengers · Food · France · London · Podcast · Sport · Tour de France

13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007!

February 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Bike Show returns after a winter break to the news that the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour De France will be in London!!
Featuring the formal presentation by ASO’s Jean-Marie Leblanc and a press conference by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.
Also in the show is Kieron Yates’s impressionistic and thoughtful account of a winter [...]

 
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