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View the full archive of The Bike Show from Resonance FM Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics This week’s show looks at the chronic lack of bicycle mechanics with the legendary Ninon Asuni of Bicycle Workshop. Ninon founded Bicycle Workshop nearly thirty years ago after deciding she’d had enough of working as a librarian. She’s now among London’s most highly regarded bicycle mechanics with a devoted following in London and the UK. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY) The Bike Show moves into advocacy mode this week with guest in the studio Debra Rolfe, Campaigns Director of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC), Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 60,000+ members. Debra is spearheading the CTC’s new campaign against bad driving by motorists called Stop SMIDSY. The aim is to draw attention to the dangers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Season Opener: Childhood Daze A youthful feel to this season opener with a visit to Lockleaze Primary School in Bristol, one of an number of Sustrans ‘Bike It’ schools acros the country. Plus childhood memories from Paul Fournel, reading from Need for the Bike in person at the Calder Bookshop. We get the inside scoop on the much-awaited Sturmey [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer antics: Cycle Camping in France 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. Part one: Part two: My route took me from Biarritz on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cycle Chic Riding with Amy Fleuriot, a young British fashion designer who’s Cyclodelic range of clothing and accessories is offering women a more stylish alternative to the typically drab clothing sold to cyclists. This is the final show in the current season. Thanks for listening! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Le Tour Redux 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Sublime to Ridiculous 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) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour de Farce? 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. Play on links below. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blazing Saddles For long-distance cycling they’re a must and they’ll improve the look of any bicycle. Brooks leather saddles date back to the 1870s and are still made in Birmingham where they were first invented. Steve Green of Brooks talks about the history and the craft of the most venerable and most comfortable bicycle saddle there is. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast only: Theatre Review - Pedal Pusher 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website London to Bristol (part two) 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website London to Bristol (part one) Part one of a ride from London to Bristol, in which presenter Jack Thurston is guided by listeners to the show. First stop is St Giles’ Church in Stoke Poges, home to the ‘bicycle window’ (pictured behind Jack and Denis Hartley, the Verger of the Church). One element of the window dates from 1642 and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Bike Week: What happened? 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiocycle The Bike Show emerges from its late spring hibernation into the bright sunlight of the summer season. This week’s show features a ride south from the Resonance FM studio to the southern limit of the station’s 5km FM broadcast signal at the Herne Hill Velodrome. With guests James Wilson, lecturer in radio at Glasgow Metropolitan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast only: Spring Classics Special Edition 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The end of the road 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16 March 2009: End of season finale - a bike pop epic In the last of the current season we drop in on a police bicycle auction to pick up a bargain. Plus a bike pop epic from the Grave Architects (pictured above) and we hear from Jo Upton, presenter of Bike Love, a bicycling radio show in Sydney, Australia. Play on links below. Other file formats on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22 August 2005 Show - a countryside trip A ride on the Kent-Sussex border with my old school friend, writer and wilderness guru Daniel Start. We evoke the Edwardian spirit of genteel cycle touring and our ride takes in a ruined castle, ancient woodland, a dangerous cliff excursion, an encounter with a barn owl and a visit to a man buried in a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9 March 2009: Legends of the Rás 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website