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Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part one) The first of two features on a north American cycle tour undertaken over the summer. Starting in cycle-friendly Montreal and Quebec’s routes vertes and camping on the shores of Lake Champlain, this episode ends with a mildly disturbing encounter with an over-talkative former NYPD officer and child abuse investigator.
Plus more from Paul Fournel’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wanted: Bicycle MechanicsThis 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 Cycle ChicRiding 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!
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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 RidiculousCopenhagen 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 Podcast only: Theatre Review - Pedal PusherPedal 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 Blazing SaddlesFor 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 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.
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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 RadiocycleThe 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 EditionThe 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 roadIt’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 epicIn 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 9 March 2009: Legends of the RásThe 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 2 March 2009: The best in cycling writingThe 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike WeekBicycle 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16 February 2009: Cycling and the recessionWith 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 16 February 2009: Cycling and the recessionWith 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9 February 2009: At the top of their games: British Cycling & BikeSnobNYCThis week’s show features a talk given by 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 head of fixed gear freestyling despite being a world [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the OlympicsThis 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland CoastRiding 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland CoastRiding 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycleThe latest on moves by the London Assembly to reduce the dangers posed by lorries to cyclists. Plus an extended talk by Andrew Ritchey, inventor of the Brompton, the folding miracle that is the toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The talk was given over the summer at the iFest 08 in Barcelona. It tells the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20 October 2008: The invention of the perfect folding bicycleThe latest on moves by the London Assembly to reduce the dangers posed by lorries to cyclists. Plus an extended talk by Andrew Ritchey, inventor of the Brompton, the folding miracle that is the toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The talk was given over the summer at the iFest 08 in Barcelona. It tells the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13 October 2008: Emergency - Lorries Killing CyclistsAfter 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 13 October 2008: Emergency - Lorries Killing CyclistsAfter 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two)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, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two)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, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one)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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one)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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to townThe 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to townThe 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CycleSafeLondon.comTwo 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22 September 2008: Grant Peterson on overnight trips and a visit to Londons anti-bike shopListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer antics: Cycle Camping in FranceOn 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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My route took me from Biarritz on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer antics: Cycle Camping in FranceOn 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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My route took me from Biarritz on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8 September 2008: Ian Hibell - Paying respects to a legendRemembering 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 8 September 2008: Ian Hibell - Paying respects to a legendRemembering 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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two)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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two)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 [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one)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, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one)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, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |
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