Cyclosportives are the glamping of amateur cycling – but there is an alternative

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Jack Thurston

One of the highlights of the last season of the show was Kieron Yates’s feature Up the ‘Uts, looking at the historic 32nd Association of cycling clubs, whose membership is dwindling even at a time when cycling is booming. In the discussion that followed both Kieron and Nigel Wood, chairman of the Dulwich Paragon club, expressed concerns that the voluntarism of traditional clubs is being supplanted by a profit-driven motivation as cycling becomes ever more commercialised. Continue reading →

Abercrombie and all that

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Jack Thurston

Utterly brilliant primer on the post war history of road building in London. Better than TV.

Embacher Collection: Book Launch, 16 March

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Jack Thurston

Mayor of London’s Cycling Q&A: February 2011

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Jack Thurston

Again, thanks to the office of Jenny Jones, for distributing this batch of questions the Mayor of London and his answers. Please scour away and alert readers to anything of particular note in the comments. Continue reading →

End of Season: The Best Bits, 2008-2010

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Jack Thurston

The final show of the winter season is a pleasurable romp through some of the best bits of the last three years of bicycle broadcasting. Featuring, in no particular order:

Alistair Humphreys, Mark Miodownik, Cynthia Barlow, Klaus Bondam, Daniel Start, Rob Ainsley, Alex Moulton, Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes), Val Shawcross AM, Leslie Wacker, David Evans, Michael Woolf, Paul Fournel, ‘Buffalo’ Bill Chidley, Andy Allan, Tony Hadland, Patrick Field, Eben Weiss (Bike Snob NYC), Kieron Yates, Matt Tempest, Stephanie Laslett, Stephen Bayley, Jimbino Vegan & Triin Lemba (Too Dumb To Die), Jason Cobb, Clovis Salmon (Sam the Wheels), Ron Cooper, children from Lockleys Primary School and a few others whose I don’t know.

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Cycling Questions & Answers to the Mayor of London: January 2011

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Jack Thurston

Another batch, thanks to Ian Wingrove in the office of Jenny Jones, Green Party London Assembly Member and 2012 Mayoral Candidate. Continue reading →

Shame and Scandal in Professional Cycling

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Jack Thurston

Crusading, anti-doping sports journalist Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly gives his views on the latest revelations about professional cycling. You can read the 30,000-word transcript of Paul Kimmage’s interview with Floyd Landis at the NY Velocity blog. Mr NikBagTV presents the Lance Armstrong defence over on YouTube.

Plus an appeal to listeners in the European Union to write to their elected representatives in the European Parliament urging new measures to protect cyclists from lorries and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). For more, visit www.seemesaveme.com