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No Cops, No Cars, No Concrete: Gary Fisher’s Life on Two Wheels
2021/10/11
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Jack talks with founding father of the mountain bike Gary Fisher about his life in cycling, the subject of his new book “Being Gary Fisher”, published by Blue Train Publishing. After talking with Gary, Jack chats with Guy Andrews and … Continue reading →
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Are Modern Bikes Rubbish?
2021/03/30
Bike technology is changing at a dizzying pace. There’s a bike for everything, from road racing and time trialling to gravel grinding and bikepacking to heavyweight touring and every shade of mountain biking. And that’s not to mention electric assist … Continue reading →
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Planning Your Next Bike Adventure
2020/07/17
As we emerge from coronavirus lockdown, is there a better summer holiday, a better way to get a change of scene, than heading out on your bike to explore the country where you live? This episode of the podcast is … Continue reading →
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Rough Stuff in the North York Moors
2020/04/26
A ride report from the time before coronavirus. Jack heads into the wild uplands of the North York Moors on an audax event organised by Dean Clementson and hosted by Mike Metcalfe. “Don’t Keep to the Road” promises gravel tracks, … Continue reading →
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From Usk to Wye with Dr Ian Walker
2020/03/28
Jack goes for a ride with Dr Ian Walker, an environmental psychologist from the University of Bath and long-distance bike racer. Ian found global fame about fifteen years ago with an experiment he did to measure how close he was … Continue reading →
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A life in cycling with Isla Rowntree
2019/05/13
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As a bike racer Isla Rowntree took on almost every discipline in cycling, rode professionally for the Raleigh MTB team and won the British national championships in cyclocross on multiple occasions. But it is as a bike designer and entrepreneur that she's made the biggest impact, transforming the market for children’s bikes. The high quality kids bikes she designs have given a generation of children the best possible start to a life of cycling. Jack visits Islabikes HQ just outside Ludlow, Shropshire to find out about how Isla got into cycling, how she got where she is now, and where she's going in the future.
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So you want to go cycling in… WW1 battlefields?
2019/02/04
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Tom Isitt has spent the past few years cycling around the battlefields of the first world war. He talks about his experiences on the Western Front and the mountainous border between Italy, Austria and Slovenia and tells the story of the extraordinary bike race that was held in spring 1919 across the devastated lands of Northern France and Belgium. The Rough Stuff Fellowship is the oldest off road cycling club in the world and club archivist Mark Hudson talks about unearthing a photographic treasure trove of inspirational adventure cycling from the 1950s to the present day.
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This Is Not A Tour
2018/10/25
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Jack takes on his longest ever ride, as part of a weekend of audax events in memory and celebration of the late, great Mike Hall. Mike was the leading light in the current revival of self-supported long distance bike racing, twice winner of the Tour Divide, winner of the TransAm Bike Race and founder and organiser of the pan-European Transcontinental Race. In March 2017 Mike was killed by a driver while competing in a bike race across Australia Continue reading →
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Cycletouring the Tour de France
2018/07/05
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This year’s Tour de France starts on the island of Noirmoutier, on the Atlantic coast of western France. Jack rides the route of Stage one, in a touring style, taking in the rich landscape of sand dunes, beaches, tidal lagoons and salt marsh and sampling the gastronomic delights of the region.
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Preston by Bike with Gavin Renshaw
2018/07/02
Jack goes to Preston, Lancashire to ride with artist Gavin Renshaw. They ride out on some of the City of Preston’s bicycle infrastructure before heading for the wild uplands of the Forest of Bowland. Along the way they talk about … Continue reading →
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When Podcasts Collide
2018/04/23
Find out what happens when The Bike Show collides with its hipper and funnier younger sister the Wheelsuckers podcast, presented by Alex Davis from Look Mum No Hands! and Jenni Gwiazdowski from London Bike Kitchen. And hear frame-builder and cycle … Continue reading →
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Higher, Faster, Rougher, Wilder with Max Leonard
2018/03/15
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The return of The Bike Show sees Jack chewing the fat with Max Leonard, author of Higher Calling: Road Cycling’s Obsession with the Mountains. They talk a lot about climbing, about the evolution of cycling towards exploring and traveling to new places, about cycling in France, and about Max’s Kickstarter project to republish a long-lost cycling guide to the off-road paths and gravel tracks of the Alps. Continue reading →
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Can Cycling Save the World? with The Guardian’s Peter Walker
2017/04/27
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Peter Walker is a political reporter at the Guardian newspaper. He set up the Guardian's bike blog and his new book puts the case for a healthier, safer and more people-friendly nation. In short, a Bike Nation. In conversation with Jack Thurston, Peter talks about his past life as bike messenger, how his views on cycling have evolved and why he believes now is a critical tipping point in Britain's long and chequered history of cycling. Continue reading →
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200 Years of Cycling
2017/04/06
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This year marks 200 years since Karl Drais invented a two wheeled 'running machine'. Since then all sorts of people have ridden all sorts of bicycles for all sorts of reasons. Looking back at two centuries of cycling and cyclists is Dr Michael Hutchinson, former professional bike racer and author of several books about cycling. His latest is "Re:Cyclists - 200 years on two wheels" is an engaging and affectionate look back at the cyclists of the past two hundred years and has just been published by Bloomsbury.
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The Indian Pacific Wheel Race: Overlanders of the 21st Century
2017/03/24
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The Indian Pacific Wheel Race is a gruelling 5,500 km coast-to-coast bicycle race across Australia. The race features the two leading long distance bike racers in the world as well as dozens of other cyclists determined to push themselves to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. Jack is joined by Australian cycling journalist Craig Fry and long distance cycling expert Chris White to discuss what it takes to win the race, or even to get to the finishing line in Sydney, plus the long history of overlanding in Australia and the possibilities of making the journey in a more leisurely cycle touring style. Continue reading →
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Under Monmouthshire Skies: Riding with Mike Parker
2017/02/16
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Mike Parker is the author of the best-selling Map Addict, an affectionate history of Ordnance Survey maps and the people who can’t get enough of their beautiful maps. He’s an accomplished guidebook writer, a former stand up comedian and has presented TV and radio programmes about Wales, his adopted homeland. In 2015 he stood for Parliament for Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales and has written a book, the Greasy Poll, about the experience. We go for a spin from Castle Meadows in Abergavenny, as it hosted the National Eisteddfod, a huge annual festival of Welsh language, culture, music and song. Continue reading →
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Decoding the Landscape with Mary-Ann Ochota
2016/12/15
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Every weekend many tens if not hundreds of thousands of people ride their bikes in the British countryside. But are we taking the time to really understand and appreciate the things we see and places we ride through? Or is it all day dreaming about the next cake stop or going hard for that next personal best on Strava?
Mary Ann Ochota has made it her mission to help people discover the history of the landscape by looking out for signs and clues that are often hidden in plain sight. She’s appeared on television presenting documentaries and archeology shows including Time Team and Britain’s Secret Treasures and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Bikelash!
2016/11/20
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fter the big victories for London cycle campaigners and the construction of two new fully segregated bike lanes in the centre of the city, the bikelash has begun. Lead by newspapers like the Daily Mail as well as a raft of celebrity commentators, taxi drivers and disgruntled business owners, the reaction to progress in cycle infrastructure has been vociferous.
What is bikelash, why is it happening and what can we do about it? Joining Jack Thurston are Clare Rogers of the Enfield Cycling Campaign and Robert Wright of the Financial Times. Continue reading →
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Riding the Iron Curtain, with Tim Moore
2016/10/28
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The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold is comic travel writer Tim Moore's third bicycle-based escapade, and perhaps his craziest. He attempts to ride the length of the Cold War's Iron Curtain, from the north of Finland to the Black Sea coast. It's near enough ten thousand kilometres, a challenge for any cyclist, and not least a slightly unfit middle aged man riding a secondhand East German shopping bike with small wheels and only two gears. Before a live audience at a book event in Monmouth, organised by Rossiters bookshop, Moore explains how he dreamed up the idea and how he got on. Continue reading →
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Transcontinental Race Wrap-Up
2016/10/12
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Wrapping up The Bike Show's coverage of this year's Transcontinental Race, Jack Thurston talks to race organiser Mike Hall and women's race winner Emily Chappell. Mike also tells the story of his record-breaking ride in the Tour Divide race earlier in the year and reflects on the growth of bikepacking, as a sport and a pastime. Continue reading →
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Transcontinental Race Update Special
2016/08/02
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Three days and three nights since setting out from Belgium, riders in the Transcontinental Race are deep in the Swiss Alps, en route for the finish in Turkey. The Transcontinental is one of the world's most extraordinary and compelling bicycle races. Jack Thurston is joined by two time Transcontinental finisher Gareth Baines for an update on this year's race and a discussion of the demands of a 4000 km non-stop bicycle race across Europe. Continue reading →
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Pushing the Limits
2016/07/29
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The Transcontinental Race is a test of body, mind and spirit. The format is simple. It’s a single stage race that begins on one side of the European continent (in Belgium) and ends on the other (in Turkey). Riders must plan their own routes and navigate themselves without any support. Jack hears from four riders readying themselves for the 2016 race. But not everyone is ready to race 4000km across Europe, and that's why Transcontinental organisers Mike Hall and Anna Haslock dreamed up a shorter, more accessible format, called the Valleycat. Jack spends a weekend in deepest mid-Wales to find out more. Continue reading →
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All Aboard! Cycle-touring with kids on the Devon Coast to Coast
2016/07/22
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The Devon Coast to Coast is a 99 mile long route across England's third largest county, from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south. It is 70 per cent traffic free and passes through the dramatic upland landscape of Dartmoor National Park, following the course of three old railway lines. It's an ideal route for family cycling tour and Jack and Sarah and Adam and Sarah discuss riding the route with a 3 year old, a 2 year old and an 11 month old. In addition Jack talks to some of the key players at Devon County Council who have worked to build the county's enviable network of traffic-free walking and cycling trails. Continue reading →
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Counting Cols
2016/07/10
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Acclaimed historian, biographer and lifelong cyclist Graham Robb joins Jack Thurston by phone to talk about his latest book, a comprehensive catalogue of the 2002 cols and passes of the British Isles. They also talk about Robb's earlier books The Discovery of France, The Ancient Paths and why the bicycle is the perfect vehicle for the historian in the field. Continue reading →
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Chris Boardman: A Life in Cycling
2016/06/29
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Chris Boardman has done it all. Born into a cycling family he became a domestic time trial demon and won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1992. He set world records for the Hour on the track and raced on the continent as a professional, wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. His R&D team helped British Cycling to world domination on the track and he founded Boardman Bikes, now the best selling brand of bikes in Britain. He has thrown himself into campaigning for everyday cycling with passion and is one of the most effective advocates for cycling, whether in the media or lobbying politicians. He has just written a new biography and is in conversation with the author Rob Penn, in front of a live audience in Monmouth, organised by Rossiter Books. Continue reading →
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What Goes Around
2016/04/18
Jack Thurston heads to mid-Wales to meet Emily Chappell, former London bike messenger turned author turned ultra endurance racer. Plus the social enterprise that's finding a new use for the Royal Mail's unwanted fleet of postal bikes, as Elephant Bikes. Continue reading →
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From Peace Race to Tour de France
2016/02/05
In a recording of a live event held as part of the CycleScreen bicycle film festival at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol, Jack Thurston talks with author Herbie Sykes about his highly acclaimed book The Race Against the Stasi. It’s … Continue reading →
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Adventures in Bikepacking
2016/01/04
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Is bikepacking the most exciting new thing in cycling since the invention of the mountain bike or a much needed rebranding of the venerable pastime of cycle touring? Or is just another cynical ruse to get us to buy more stuff, an attempt to commercialise that wonderful thing called adventure. Jack heads to mid-Wales for the Bear Bones Winter Event to find out, and meets up with Beth Barrington of WildCat Gear to hear about the homespun beginnings of a small company that makes some of the best bikepacking gear available.
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Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang: Geraint Thomas’s World of Cycling
2015/12/14
In a live event Jack Thurston talks to double Olympic gold medallist and top Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas about his life in cycling as told in his new book The World of Cycling According to G. Continue reading →
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Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum
2015/11/25
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Tim Dawson has the lowdown on a major new exhibition of bicycles at London's Design Museum, including cargo bikes, city bikes and the bikes used by Merckx, Moser and Wiggins to break the Hour Record. He speaks with the shows curator Donna Loveday and consider the show's strengths and weaknesses. Tim and host Jack Thurston then wonder if it's right and proper to fall in love with a bicycle and discuss other great cycle collections in the UK and overseas. Continue reading →
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Bike Test: Crossover Fun with the Pinnacle Arkose 2
2015/10/07
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In the first ever rolling bike test on The Bike Show, Jack Thurston takes the Pinnacle Arkose 2 for a spin around the hills above Abergavenny and Blaenavon. The Pinnacle Arkose 2 is an 'adventure road' bike featuring a 1x10 drivechain, hyraulic disc brakes and 40mm tyres. Continue reading →
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Lost Lanes Wales: book launch events
2015/08/28
I’ll be doing some book talk events to mark the launch of Lost Lanes Wales: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Wales and the Borders. Come along, say hello, buy a book: Thursday 10th September. The Station Hotel, Abergavenny NP7 5UH. … Continue reading →
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Really Useful Bikes at the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show
2015/08/17
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Bespoked, the UK's Handmade Bicycle Show is Britain's biggest annual showcase for custom bike builders. It's full to the rafters of beautiful bikes but Jack Thurston went in search of the most useful bikes at the show, from an off-road porteur to a separable road bike to a childback tandem in titanium.
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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Simon Warren
2015/07/21
It’s the end of the second week of this year’s Tour de France, just time for us – and the riders – to catch our breaths before the final week and the showdown in the Alps. Joining Jack Thurston for … Continue reading →
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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Edward Pickering
2015/07/13
After eight varied and exciting days of bike racing, the riders in the Tour de France take a well-earned rest day. Cycling journalist and author Edward Pickering has been following the race and is on hand to review the first … Continue reading →
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Tour de France preview with Guy Andrews
2015/06/29
With just a few days until the start of the 2015 Tour de France, cycling author, journalist and photographer Guy Andrews joins Jack Thurston to look forward to one of the most eagerly anticipated grand tours in decades. With four … Continue reading →
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Put Me Back On The Trike
2015/04/03
Three months and 17,000 miles into his attempt to break the longest-standing record in cycling, Steve Abraham suffered a road crash with a moped, leaving him with two broken bones in his ankle. We hear more from Steve as well as from some of his many well-wishers. Continue reading →
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Bike Boom? What Bike Boom?
2015/03/02
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Bike sales are up, cycling is all over newspapers and magazines. We in Britain are in the middle of a bonafide bike boom. So says veteran cycling journalist Carlton Reid, who's writing a book about the bike boom, that's called, imaginatively, "Bike Boom". But fellow long-in-the-tooth cycling journalist John Stevenson of Road.CC disagrees. Cycling in Britain is far from booming, it's flat-lining. The pair lock horns on air, joining host Jack Thurston to debate the bike boom. Continue reading →
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The Listeners’ Hour Explained
2015/02/24
listen to ‘The Bike Show Listeners Hour Challenge – explained’ on audioBoom As described in this week’s podcast, the Listener’s Hour is a cycling challenge open to all listeners to The Bike Show. And the challenge is this: to … Continue reading →
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How to Ride Your Bike Faster
2015/02/23
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With the recent reawakening of interest in the Hour Record, host Jack Thurston is joined by Michael Hutchinson, a professional bike racer who has dominated the UK time trialling scene for more than a decade, setting national records for distances from 10 miles to 100 miles. He's also an accomplished writer and his latest book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists documents with forensic detail and wry humour his career-long quest to ride his bicycle very, very fast.
Jack and Michael also reveal the Listeners' Hour Challenge. Continue reading →
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Cycling and Modernity in 1930s London
2015/02/16
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Historians often regard the defining events of the 1930s as the Great Depression and the march towards the second world war. Yet the decade also saw something of a consumer boom, at least among well-to-do inhabiting the suburbs of London and the south east. Historian Dr John Law of the University of Westminster joins Jack Thurston to share his research into the a new suburban lifestyles of the interwar years, including the dramatic increase in private, personal mobility though the use of cars, motorcycles and bicycles. They discuss how these new transport technologies shaped London and Londoners and how drivers and cyclists fought for the right to the road.
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A Year on Two Wheels
2015/02/11
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It's the toughest and longest standing record in cycling. Only a handful of people have attempted to break the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the greatest distance ridden on a bike in one year. But this year two extraordinary cyclists are having a crack at it. In an in-depth interview with British long distance legend Steve Abraham, who is already almost six weeks into his record attempt, Jack Thurston finds out what kind of person takes on the challenge of riding an average of 205 miles for 365 days in a row. Author Dave Barter is on hand to put the year record in historical and sporting context. Continue reading →
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The Politics of Adventure
2015/02/07
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Jack Thurston’s guest this week is self-confessed angry young man, Julian Sayarer, who, five years ago, set a new record for cycling around the world. Having taken a strong dislike to Mark Beaumont, the previous record-holder, whose record attempt was backed by big business and, according to Sayarer, represented everything that was wrong with the world. He wanted to beat Beaumont and take the record back ‘for the people’.
They meet on on the banks of the River Wye a few miles downstream from the city of Hereford. Julian Sayarer’s book Life Cycles is published by John Blake and available in paperback and on the Kindle. Continue reading →
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The Near Miss Project
2015/01/26
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Statistics tell us that for the same distance travelled you're more likely to come to physical harm on a bike than on most other modes of transport. But even so, crashes are quite rare. Much more common yet much less studied and understood, are the almost crashes, the near misses, that are so much a part of the experience of cycling in Britain. The Near Miss Project is an academic-led study that seeks to find out more about the experience of near misses.
Joining host Jack Thurston to look more deeply at near misses and perceptions of road safety among cyclists are Dr Rachel Aldred, of University of Westminster, Dr Kat Jungnickel of Goldsmiths College and John Dales, a leading UK traffic engineer and transport planner.
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Your Near Miss Audio Stories
2015/01/12
As part of a partnership between The Bike Show and the University of Westminster’s Near Miss Project, we want to hear your audio stories of near misses you’ve experienced while out riding. We’ll play them on an upcoming edition of … Continue reading →
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Christmas Books Special
2014/12/16
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Jack Thurston is joined by a galaxy of stars from the world of cycling literature to pick over the cream of this year's crop of bike books. Nominating their cycling book of the year are Feargal McKay, Ned Boulting, Herbie Sykes, Daniel Friebe, Tom Southam, Richard Moore, Max Leonard and Emma O'Reilly. Guy Andrews, founding editor of Rouleur magazine, is on hand with his crystal ball to look at what cycling books we might expect in 2015 and years to come. Continue reading →
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Come the E-Bike Revolution?
2014/12/02
Electric bikes are a rapidly growing area of the bicycle industry, offering the promise of effortless two-wheeled travel. Professor Mark Miodownik of University College London tests a Smart E-bike (pictured, above) as part of an in-depth look at e-bike technologies, … Continue reading →
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Severn Serenade
2014/09/16
Jack rides with singer-songwriter and cycle-tourist Jet McDonald, setting out from Bristol on a summer evening, riding along the banks of the River Avon, through the industrial landscape of Avonmouth to the banks of the River Severn and beyond. Continue reading →
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Rapha at 10 and L’Eroica comes to Britain
2014/07/12
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The Bike Show and the cycle clothing company Rapha share a birthday, and while The Bike Show keeps on keeping on, Rapha has grown into a global brand and is toasting its success on the Champs-Élysées as suppliers of clothing to the Sky Pro Cycling Team. Jack checks in with Laura Bower and James Fairbank at Rapha to talk about Chris Froome's fishnets and what the company is doing to encourage more women to ride bikes. Summer is festival time and Jack chews over the Rapha Tempest and the Eroica Britannia with Howard Smith, author of The Jersey Pocket cycling blog. Continue reading →
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Rolling with Klaus
2014/07/08
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Klaus Bondam, Director of the Danish Cyclists Federation and former deputy mayor in charge of cycling in Copenhagen rides with 'Buffalo' Bill Chidley to the Hackney Cycling Conference. En route they try to find out how London's roads compare with cycling cities like Copenhagen. Then Bill joins Kieron Yates and Jack Thurston to discuss what happened at the conference, and where things are with the Mayor of London's much heralded cycling revolution. Continue reading →
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Woods and Wildflowers
2014/06/08
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Enjoying nature has always been one of the pleasures of cycling. This week we hear from two organisations working to protect and improve Britain's natural places. Andy Byfield of the charity Plantlife explains his charity's new campaign about road verges while Garfield Kennedy of the Woodland Trust, which manages hundreds of woods and forests across the country, explains why mountain-bikers and other cyclists are welcome in their woods. Continue reading →
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Taking the Long View of the Giro d’Italia
2014/05/14
In the opening week of the Giro d'Italia, or Tour of Italy, Feargal McKay joins Jack Thurston to cast a historian's view over the race, looking into its origins, its rivalry with the Tour de France and where the race is heading in the years to come. Continue reading →
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Space for Cycling: The Big Campaign
2014/05/11
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In what may well be the biggest electoral campaign ever mounted by a cycle campaign group in Britain, Space for Cycling makes a very clear series of demands on candidates for local councils. To talk about Space for Cyclingand about the changing landscape of cycle campaigning is Ashok Sinha, chief executive of the London Cycling Campaign. Continue reading →
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Cycling and the Countryside
2014/04/29
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Cycling in the countryside can be an unparalleled joy. But too often fast, hostile roads and make it worse than cycling in Britain’s urban streets. What’s gone wrong? And more importantly, what can be done about it? Ralph Smyth, transport campaigner at the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, explains what the problems are and what his organisation is doing to improve conditions for cycling in the countryside. Continue reading →
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Lance Armstrong: My Part in His Downfall
2014/04/16
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New York Times reporter Juliet Macur has covered the Lance Armstrong doping story for almost a decade. Her bestselling new book Cycle of Lies, reveals how he won a record seven Tour de France victories and how the truth about his team's doping finally came out. We discuss whether cycling is cleaning up its act and the risks of sports journalists becoming over-invested in the success of the stars they report on. Continue reading →
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Spring Season Opener: Iron Horse, Steel Condor
2014/04/07
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Mary Erskine of the band Me for Queen talks about their forthcoming album 'Iron Horse', inspired by cycling. And Grant Young, MD of London's Condor Cycles explains why steel bikes are selling like hotcakes, and how the London firm is helping breathe new life into the Italian bicycle manufacturing scene. Continue reading →
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Resofund Special Show
2014/02/15
Resonance FM needs your help to stay on air. Anyone who donates £2 or more to the station will receive a special edition of The Bike Show "A Night on a Bare Mountain". Continue reading →
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School level data on cycling to school
2014/01/09
A recent flurry of twitter discussion on the very low level of cycling to school in Britain, and how poorly this country compares to more cycling-friendly places, prompted me to look for school level data on how children travel to … Continue reading →
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The Healing Machine
2013/11/18
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What makes a 40-year-old man take up bike racing? Jack Thurston talks with Bill Strickland, American cycling journalist, author of a clutch of cycling books including a memoir, Ten Points, which tells of how his quest to make a mark on his local amateur bike racing scene helped him come to terms with his own inner demons caused by the torture he suffered as a child at the hands of an abusive father. Bill also talks about the fallout from the disgrace of Lance Armstrong, the state of doping in today's pro peloton and his #CapsNotHats campaign. Plus Jon Spencer tells of his journey to become a Super Randonneur. Continue reading →
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Campaigning for Cycling
2013/11/16
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In the middle of possibly the worst week for cycling fatalities in London Mike Cavenett of the London Cycling Campaign talks about what his organisation is doing to change things in the city and how an effective cycling campaign requires a single, simple message clearly and imaginatively presented, mass mobilisation and relentless pressure on political decision-makers Continue reading →
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High Tech and High Stakes in the Bicycle Boom
2013/11/04
Hub gear manufacturer Sturmey Archer sits in the pantheon of iconic bicycle brands, most famous for its hugely popular three speed hub gears. Tony Hadland tells the intriguing story of the invention of the hub gear, a story of gifted … Continue reading →
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Going the Distance
2013/10/28
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For many cyclists, breaking through the 100 mile barrier opens up a whole new world of long distance cycling. Kieron Yates, a two time finisher of 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris, joins Jack Thurston to talk about the allure of going the distance, with advice from a handful of members of the global randonneuring scene. Continue reading →
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High on a Mountain Top
2013/10/22
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Since the very earliest years of the bicycle, adventurous cyclists have been unable to resist the allure of the mountains - the challenge of riding up and the thrill of freewheeling down the other side. Mountains are also the crucible of many of the most dramatic moments in professional bike racing. Daniel Friebe and Pete Goding, the authors of 'Mountain Higher: Europe's Extreme, Undiscovered and Unforgettable Cycle Climbs' join host Jack Thurston to talk about the quest for ever more exhilarating climbs and breathtakingly beautiful places. In a podcast-only extra, Bill Chidley reports back from the Annual General Meeting of the London Cycling Campaign, where important details of the Space 4 Cycling campaign were agreed. Continue reading →
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Cakes and Ale
2013/09/03
“And sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorn hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode … Continue reading →
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A Ride in Border Country
2013/07/30
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In the last show of the summer season, Jack goes for a leisurely spin around the Welsh borders with local cyclist Owen Davies as his guide, from Abergavenny to Monmouth and back, past Raglan Castle, Rockfield recording studios and the unlikely Welsh residence of the notorious Nazi politician Rudolf Hess.
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C’est Magnifique! C’est le Tour de France!
2013/07/23
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This year's Tour de France was the hundredth edition of the world's biggest and best bicycle race - and it proved to be a race to remember. Jack Thurston talks with 'Buffalo' Bill Chidley about three weeks of outstanding bike racing. Next year the Tour will begin in Yorkshire and cycling journalist Peter Cossins is already excited about the race passing right by his house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
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Boardman versus Obree
2013/07/18
The sporting rivalry between Chris Boardman and Graeme Obree is among the greatest in history, on a par with Ovett and Coe, Borg and McEnroe or Ali and Frazier. Twenty years on from their record-breaking exploits, Jack Thurston and Edward … Continue reading →
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Uphill State of Mind
2013/07/08
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Cyclists have a strange fascination with riding up hills and it's definitely a pleasure/pain thing. Jack goes in search of the hill climb junkies, first at the Catford Hill Climb on Kent's North Downs, the oldest continuously held bicycle race in the world, and then to Abergavenny where a new course has revived the local cycling club's flagging hill climb event. Continue reading →
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How Britain Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Bike Racing
2013/07/01
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In the first show of the new season, Jack takes a leisurely ride in the Welsh Borders with Ned Boulting, one of the faces of ITV's coverage of the Tour de France. They discuss Ned's new book "On the Road Bike: the Search for a Nation's Cycling Soul", an engaging and ideosyncratic history of British bike racing. Continue reading →
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Podcast special: Reading Le Tour de France
2013/06/25
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It's just a few days until the start of the hundredth edition of the world’s greatest bike race, the Tour de France. Book publishers have taken this historic milestone as their cue to commission and produce an enormous quantity of books about the race, its history and legend.
To help sort the wheat from the chaff is Feargal McKay, a man who’s read more books about professional bike racing than there are hairpin bends in the Pyrenees. As the resident book reviewer at the Podium Cafe website, Feargal Mckay has built a reputation for outstanding book reviews that are both thorough and thought provoking. Continue reading →
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Soon We’ll Be Wheelbuilding
2013/05/20
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The spoked wheel is the unsung hero of the bicycle. Jack Thurston embarks on a journey of discovery, to understand how a bicycle wheel works with the help of engineer and materials scientist Professor Mark Miodownik, and then tries to learn how to build one, taking a class at London's Cycle Systems Academy. Continue reading →
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Eileen Sheridan: The Mighty Atom
2013/05/18
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Land's End to John O'Groats is a classic cycle touring route. But it was also the blue riband distance among the long distance record-breaking heyday of the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1954 Eileen Sheridan, a diminutive cyclist from Coventry sponsored by the huge Hercules Bicycle Company, set a new record that stood for decades. Now 89, Eileen recounts a truly epic journey and tells the story of how she became one of the best-known, and best-paid, cyclists in Britain. Continue reading →
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What It Really Means to Go Dutch
2013/05/02
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To many UK cycling campaigners, David Hembrow is a Moses-type figure, handing down tablets of smooth, car-free red asphalt from the streets of Assen in the Netherlands where he lives and writes the blog A View from the Cycle Path. He's also a controversial figure, arguing that separation of cars and bikes is essential for mass cycling and that many UK campaigners are either on the wrong track or suffering from hopelessly low expectations. In an extended interview David explains why he moved from England to the Netherlands in search of cycling nirvana and what the Dutch have got to teach the rest of the world when it comes to making cycling friendly towns and cities. Continue reading →
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Live from the V&A: Bike V Design
2013/04/22
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Contemporary bike culture is blossoming into a mesmerising kaleidoscope of bicycle-related art, craft and graphic design. Small artisans are leading the way while big brands try to cash in on the action. Alice Marsh of Bike V Design leads a discussion recorded in front of a live audience at the Victoria and Albert Museum, bringing together a panel that includes Tom Donhou, a former product designer turned bicycle frame-builder, the founders of The Ride Journal and Boneshaker magazine and James Greig, a graphic designer and bike blogger. Continue reading →
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A Bright New Dawn for Cycling in London?
2013/04/16
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London Mayor Boris Johnson's new Vision for Cycling has won widespread praise for its ambition of making London streets more inviting for people on bikes, following the successes of cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Jack Thurston is joined by three cycling activists for a look at the details and to share their views on what really needs to be done to make London a safer and more pleasant place to ride a bike. Featuring Trevor Parsons, coordinator of Hackney Cyclists, blogger Mark Treasure and ex-London bike messenger Buffalo Bill Chidley Continue reading →
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When Will We Stop Lorries Killing Cyclists?
2013/04/08
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As another cyclist is killed by a lorry in central London, Jack Thurston asks whether it's time to take a harder line to make the city's streets safer. Featuring Cynthia Barlow of RoadPeace, former bike messenger Bill Chidley and Mike Cavenett of the London Cycling Campaign, which has recently proposed a new design for lorries working in London.
Plus news of Jack's new book, Lost Lanes: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Southern England. Continue reading →
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Issue 2 of the Bicycle Reader
2013/04/02
Somewhat later than planned, the second issue of the Bicycle Reader is out, and available for Kindle, Kobo and other ebook readers. It can be read on Apple and Android tablets and phones using the free Kindle app. Continue reading →
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Edward Thomas on waterproof cycling gear
2013/03/22
A hundred years ago, on Good Friday, 1913, a London-born Welshman, writer and cyclist set out on an Easter cycle tour from Clapham Common to the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Four years later, having enlisted in the British Army to … Continue reading →
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Buy the book! Lost Lanes: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Southern England
2013/03/14
I've been taking some time off The Bike Show to write a book about the best places to ride a bike in Southern England. Read more about it. Continue reading →
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Turning back the clock to 1948
2013/02/13
Today, in an evidence session before Parliament, Chris Boardman said Britain’s 2012 Olympic legacy should be a return to the levels of cycling last seen in 1948, the previous time Britain hosted the Olympic Games. It’s an appealing proposition, and … Continue reading →
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Podcast special: Did Cycling Kill Kraftwerk?
2013/01/31
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On the eve of Kraftwerk's eight night residency at the Tate Modern, Jack is joined by David Buckley, music writer and author of a new biography of the German electronic pop pioneers. Among the revelations in his book is evidence that a serious obsession with cycling contributed to the slowing of the band's musical output in the 1980s and, ultimately, the break-up of the group's classic line-up. Jack and David talk about Kraftwerk's journey from experimental music-making to the pinnacle of influence over pop, rock, hip-hop and dance music as well as their love affair with riding their bikes. Continue reading →
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Happy Christmas from the Vulpine Christmas Fête
2012/12/19
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In a seasonal podcast special, Jack heads to Balham, Gateway to the South, for the Christmas Fête organised by Vulpine, the London-based cycle clothing company. Featuring The Ride Journal, Artcrank, Michaux Club, Pannier.cc, Marsh-Mallows Cycling Holidays, Fresh Tripe and Nick Hussey of Vulpine. Continue reading →
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Podcast Special: The Gospel According to St Grant
2012/12/10
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Grant Petersen thinks most cyclists need to 'unrace themselves', that is to say, stop following what professional racing cyclists do. Instead we should all ride more comfortable bikes in more comfortable clothes and be more relaxed about the whole experience. He's written a book called Just Ride and, in an extended interview, he tells Jack Thurston exactly what he means. Grant Petersen is a highly regarded bicycle designer, formerly of Bridgestone USA and founder and owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works in northern California. Continue reading →
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Vulpine Cycling Fête: 1 December 2012
2012/11/20
Vulpine is a young London company that makes nice clothes for cycling in. They’re holding a Christmas Fête on Saturday 1st September at the Balham Bowls Club. The Bike Show will be there, along with the cream of the London … Continue reading →
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Across Africa by Bike (part two)
2012/11/12
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Pete Gostelow rode twenty thousand miles across Africa and passed through dozens of countries. In doing so he showed that the bicycle is the best way to travel. In this episode we continue our ride to Battersea Park and talk along the way about where he slept, what he ate, what his motivations were for making the journey and what it’s like to be back home after such a long trip. Pete also explains the inspiration he thinks ordinary cyclists can take from his long African adventure. Continue reading →
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Across Africa by Bike (part one)
2012/11/05
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As November brings cold, dark cycling conditions to Britain, there's no better time to get out the maps and start dreaming up adventures for next year. How about 20,000 miles across Africa? That's a journey recently completed by Pete Gostelow. After crossing the Sahara, the Congo and the Namibian badlands, will Pete survive the mean streets of south London in a rolling interview? This is the first of a two-part feature.
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Raleigh Recall
2012/10/30
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In the third and final instalment of the Raleigh mini-season, listeners to The Bike Show share their recollections of Raleigh bicycles they have loved - and loathed. Jack Thurston is joined by broadcaster and artist Ruby Wright and London man-about-town and Raleigh Twenty owner Jean-Marie Orhan. In a podcast-only bonus feature, Tony Hadland shares his thoughts on restoring old, neglected Raleigh bicycles.
Apologies to 'Fun Run' Robbie who is of course not 'Fun Boy' Robbie at all (or maybe he is?!) and yes, the town of Hawick in the Scottish Borders is pronounced like this. Continue reading →
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Raleigh (part two): The Fall
2012/10/23
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In the second of a two-part feature on the Raleigh Bicycle Company, historian Tony Hadland and Jack Thurston look at Raleigh's post-war success as the world's biggest bicycle manufacturing company and its long decline to a point where it was sold off to overseas investors and abandoned manufacturing in its home town of Nottingham. The Raleigh name lives on as a brand owned by Accell, a larger Dutch company. Continue reading →
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Raleigh (part one): The Rise
2012/10/15
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In the first of a two-part feature on the Raleigh Bicycle Company, historian Tony Hadland and Jack Thurston chart the rise of the company from a small backstreet workshop in Nottingham in the mid-1880s to the mid-1950s when it was seemingly unassailable as the world's biggest bicycle manufacturer.
Tony Hadland is the author of Raleigh: Past and Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand. Continue reading →
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Dopefiend
2012/10/12
Spilling the Beans
2012/10/08
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Nick Larsen is founder and creative director at Charge Bikes of Frome in the west of England. Charge is a fairly new company, remarkable for many things and not least the fact that all its products are named after something you would normally find in the kitchen. There’s the Juicer (a road bike), the Spoon (a saddle), the Bowl (a pair of handlebars) and of course The Plug, a simple single speed bicycle that launched the company into the big time a few years ago.
Nick talks candidly about the bike industry, his own motivations and inspirations, where future trends are coming from and the potential of the exciting new technology of ‘3D printing’.
This conversation was recorded live at last month’s Bike V Design night at the Design Museum. Continue reading →
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Bicycle Polo, Cosmic-style
2012/10/02
Bicycle polo has been played for more than a century but the ‘hard court’ variety is a relatively new, urban development. Todd, Mat and Rupert of London’s Cosmic Bike Polo team (pictured, above) explain how the sport came about, how … Continue reading →
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Podcast special: Lionel Birnie’s People’s Grand Tour
2012/08/09
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On the eve of the summer edition of the People's Grand Tour, Jack goes for a spin around the back lanes of rural Hertfordshire with cycling journalist Lionel Birnie, a regular guest on The Bike Show, who writes about professional bike racing for the Sunday Times and Cycle Sport magazine. The People's Grand Tour is open to anyone willing to commit to riding at least ten days over a 23 day period, starting this Saturday 11 August. It's free to enter and a great way of increasing the amount of riding you're doing.
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Cycle-touring at the Olympics
2012/08/07
There’s a lot of cycling at the Olympics. On the road, on the track, BMX and mountainbiking too. But there is one aspect of cycling that is quite neglected by the UCI and the IOC: cycle-touring. I propose for the … Continue reading →
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Live from Belgium House
2012/07/31
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In a live broadcast from Belgium House, a temporary Olympic Village and 'cycling paradise' in London's Middle Temple, Jack finds out about Flandrien cycling culture from Rik Vanwalleghem, director of the Tour of Flanders centre in Belgium. At the launch of the Rapha Cycle Club in Soho, Rapha founder Simon Mottram reflects on the eight years since the company was launched in 2004. London cyclist Nick Hussey of the recently launched Vulpine clothing brand talks about designing and making top quality, stylish apparel for the discerning cyclist. And Resonance FM engineer Chris Dixon rides up a virtual Koppenberg.
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Remembering Albert Winstanley and announcing the Bicycle Reader
2012/07/23
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Tim Dawson and Jack Thurston talk about Albert Winstanley, the Lancashire writer, broadcaster and cycletourist who died earlier this year aged 95. Winstanley was a top notch nature writer and had the rare talent to convey in his writing the pleasures of a simple bicycle ride. One of Winstanley's articles features in the first edition of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about riding, co-edited by Jack Thurston and Tim Dawson, and available for Kindle and other e-book readers for the very modest price of £1.53. Continue reading →
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Tour de France Rest Day Chit-Chat with Lionel Birnie
2012/07/17
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Today is the last rest day in the Tour before the race heads into the Pyrenees for tomorrow's frighteningly gruelling mountain stage around the Circle of Death. The rest gave Jack Thurston time to catch up with Lionel Birnie, The Bike Show's favourite cycling journalist. Lionel writes for Cycle Sport Magazine and the Sunday Times. You can follow him on twitter at lioneljbirnie and read his articles in Cycle Sport Magazine and in the Sunday Times. Continue reading →
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Taking the Long View of The Tour de France
2012/07/09
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This year's Tour de France is the 99th edition of a bicycle race that is rich in meaning and symbolism for the French nation. Christopher Thompson is professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and author of a widely acclaimed cultural history of the Tour de France. He discusses how the race came about in an era of rising nationalism and how the route itself was loaded with political meaning. Professor Thompson argues the race projected carefully constructed role models and entrenched traditional gender archetypes. More recently, controversies over doping in cycle sport can be linked to concerns about recreational drug use in wider society. Continue reading →
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How Ned Boulting Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Tour de France
2012/06/30
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It's July, that means it's the Tour de France. Jack Thurston talks with Ned Boulting, a sports reporter who has been covering the Tour for ITV since 2003. He talks about the rise in popularity of cycle sport and everyday cycling over the past decade and the high jinks he's got up to while covering the last nine Tours de France Ned's book, How I Won the Yellow Jumper, is out now, published by Yellow Jersey Press. Continue reading →
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Touring tips #6: Maps revisited: computer mapping
2012/06/27
In the first of these touring tips I wrote about Ordnance Survey paper maps (specifically the 1:50k Landranger series) and why I thought these are the most useful and satisfying UK maps for the touring cyclist, and how they can … Continue reading →
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Over the col du Tourmalet, 1879 style
2012/06/25
This is an extract from an account of a summer touring trip to the Pyrenees, published in the London Bicycle Club Gazette (1879). The group of London cycle tourists rode their machines, or more likely pushed them, up all the … Continue reading →
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Vous Faites le Tour de France?
2012/06/25
With this year's Tour de France just a few days away, Kieron Yates and Jack Thurston talk about the best places to go touring by bicycle in France. They share their ideas on where to go, where to stay and how to get there and back. Continue reading →
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Stephen Roche, twenty five years later
2012/06/19
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1987 was an annus mirabilis for Stephen Roche, one of a wave of world class Irish athletes that rose to fame that decade. He won the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the World Championship road race. The only other rider to have accomplished this feat, know as the 'triple crown', is Eddy Merckx. Roche has a new book out called 'Born To Ride' and talks about his life in cycling, winning the triple crown, as well as his thoughts on today's peloton, the scourge of doping and his own implication in an EPO doping conspiracy.
His new autobiography, Born to Ride, is out now, published by Yellow Jersey Press. Continue reading →
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Touring tip #5: Resist the multitool
2012/06/18
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Superficially, multitools are very attractive. They’re small, light and there’s definitely a Swiss Army Knife wow factor as you unfold the various blades, revealing one handy function after another. And this… for removing a stone from a horse’s hoof! But … Continue reading →
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Touring tip #4: Star water carriers
2012/06/14
Not long ago, someone discovered that cycling water bottles (or bidons) contained a toxic chemical called BPA that was potentially seriously harmful to human health. Some, though not all, bidons are BPA-free, but even if they are, it doesn’t stop … Continue reading →
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Touring tip #3: Pump me up!
2012/06/13
As a young cycle tourist in the late 80s and early 90s I used to get a lot of punctures. Fortunately, at that time the charts were full of tunes featuring lyrics about pumping this or that up and I … Continue reading →
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Touring tip #2: the Lifeventure insulated mug
2012/06/12
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When you’re heading off on a cycle camping trip, you’ll need some kind of cup to drink from. Unless, of course, you prefer the rugged Bear Ghrylls drinking-from-waterfall-with-cupped-hands look or you take your inspiration from Ray Mears and prefer to … Continue reading →
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To Coventry: Birthplace of the Bicycle
2012/06/11
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Coventry has a very good claim to be the birthplace of the modern bicycle, the "Rover Safety" invented in the 1880s by John Kemp Starley, one of the city's many bicycle makers. Someone very happy to make that claim is Steve Bagley, Head of Collections at the Coventry Transport Museum. We go for a ride around the city and a trip back in time. Continue reading →
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Touring tip #1: Why Ordnance Survey maps are best and how to get them for free
2012/06/11
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The British Isles are blessed with the world’s best maps for travel and adventure, made by the expert cartographers of the Ordnance Survey. There’s nothing like stopping by the side of the road, leaning your bicycle up against a dry … Continue reading →
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To Copenhagen, City of Cyclists
2012/05/22
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A trip to the Danish capital of Copenhagen, city of stylish cyclists, where Jack Thurston meets Mikael Colville-Andersen, the force behind Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize. We talk about how a single street photograph set him on a new path of bicycle advocacy, fashion and city planning consulting. And lots and lots of blogging.
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A Century of Italian Cycle Sport
2012/05/14
Dunwich Dynamo XX: 30 June 2012
2012/05/10
Merckx, Merckx, Merckx
2012/05/07
Voting Bike at the London Mayoral Election
2012/05/01
Tony Pizzo: New York to Los Angeles & return
2012/04/27
The Bike Show feeder ride for #TheBIGRide
2012/04/27
Burrows on the Bicycle (part two – laid back)
2012/04/24
In the year 1949…
2012/04/18
Burrows on the Bicycle (part one)
2012/04/17
David Hockney, the Bigger Picture and the Aesthetics of Cycle Touring
2012/04/12
All the Young Dudes: The Revival of Bicycle Framebuilding in Britain
2012/04/03
When a picture is worth a thousand words
2012/03/28
Summer’s here! Get on your bike and ride
2012/03/27
Christian Wolmar on London’s Transport Choice
2012/03/19
How to get more women riding bikes
2012/03/12
On Two Wheels in France
2012/03/06
Friends Ride: The Oyster Run – 14 April 2012
2012/03/05
Friends Ride: 15 September 2012 – To Ripley (and back?)
2012/02/27
Raphaël Krafft: reportage on two wheels
2012/02/22
Resonance FM fundraiser – please give generously
2012/02/14
Across Europe by Bike
2012/02/13
Londoners On Bikes…with Votes!
2012/02/06
Super Highway
2012/02/04
The Obree Way
2012/01/31
Red Flag, Yellow Flag
2012/01/26
Down at the London Bike Show
2012/01/23
The Lost Cyclist with David Herlihy
2012/01/16
Make Our Junctions Safer
2011/12/15
Looking back at 2011 and ahead to 2012
2011/12/13
Tell us your best ride of 2011
2011/12/07
Reading About Riding
2011/12/07
Night ride
2011/12/05
Another day for you and me in Carradice
2011/11/28
Is riding a bike as easy as riding a bike?
2011/11/23
Campaigning for a Civilised Cycling City
2011/11/14
Boris Johnson on the Safety of Cycling in London: Complete Audio
2011/11/11
Is London Air Killing Us?
2011/11/07
The Competitive Impulse
2011/10/31
Team GB rules the track and Patrick Field tells it like it is
2011/10/25
Friends of The Bike Show Ride: Sunday 6 November
2011/10/20
How the Dutch got their cycle paths
2011/10/20
Paris-Brest-Paris: part two
2011/10/18
Compare and contrast
2011/10/11
Paris-Brest-Paris: part one
2011/10/10
Jah Tweed
2011/10/05
Arnold Schwarzenegger rides a bike
2011/10/03
Season opener: Time Travelling
2011/09/26
Friends Ride: An East London Excursion
2011/09/22
Season opening ride: Saturday 24 September
2011/09/20
Blackfriars and Beyond
2011/08/08
Blackfriars Bridge: how far to push the limits of peaceful protest?
2011/07/28
The 2011 Tour de France: a modern classic?
2011/07/27
Amendment to Motion on Blackfriars Bridge
2011/07/20
Dunwich Dynamo Redux
2011/07/18
Why Boris Johnson has got it wrong on Blackfriars Bridge
2011/07/14
All Night, All Right: Dunwich Dynamo 2011 Preview
2011/07/12
AudioBoo the Dunwich Dynamo 2011
2011/07/06
Road Danger Reduction with Dr Robert Davis
2011/07/05
How to follow the Tour de France on TV, twitter, newspapers, blogs and podcasts
2011/06/28
A Midsummer Misadventure with Dixe Wills (and a podcast bonus)
2011/06/27
The Bike Show Jersey: Orders now closed
2011/06/24
Keep the Red Stuff In
2011/06/20
Fix Your Own Bike
2011/06/14
Ride to the London Stone, 18 June 2011
2011/06/10
Cyclists! Welcome to London!
2011/06/09
The Millar’s Tale
2011/06/06
Rob Penn on Looking for the Perfect Bike
2011/05/27
A Green Mayor? On the Campaign Trail with Jenny Jones
2011/05/17
The Life and Times of the Cycling Jersey
2011/05/10
Norman Baker MP, liberalism and bicycle helmets
2011/04/12
Lorries kill twice in one day on London streets
2011/03/22
Resonance FM Fundraising Auction
2011/03/19
Cyclosportives are the glamping of amateur cycling – but there is an alternative
2011/03/18
Abercrombie and all that
2011/03/17
Embacher Collection: Book Launch, 16 March
2011/03/10
Mayor of London’s Cycling Q&A: February 2011
2011/03/02
End of Season: The Best Bits, 2008-2010
2011/02/21
Cycling Questions & Answers to the Mayor of London: January 2011
2011/02/09
Shame and Scandal in Professional Cycling
2011/02/08
No bicycle helmet law here, please
2011/02/03
Digging through London cycle hire data
2011/02/02
Up the ‘Uts: The Slow Death (and Rebirth?) of the British Cycling Club
2011/02/01
They’re trying to ban cycling on the South Bank
2011/01/26
Bike Blogging with Mark Ames of ibikelondon / Jan Gehl / Eric Pickles MP
2011/01/24
Inside the 2012 Olympic Velodrome
2011/01/18
Bart Kyzar: Man on a Mission
2011/01/11
Resonance FM wins award
2010/12/16
A Christmas Stocking: Apprenticeships, L’Eroica and MyBikeLane.com
2010/12/14
Four Great Lives in Cycling: Kuklos, Robinson, Mustoe, Fignon
2010/12/07
Season opener: Knutsford Great Race and all the fun of the Cycle Show 2010
2010/11/30
Return of the Jack
2010/11/24
Cycle Show 2010: the pick of the crop
2010/10/08
Are TfL’s cycling promotion campaigns worth the money?
2010/09/22
Mayor’s Cycling Questions and Answers: September 2010
2010/09/22
In praise of Le Prof
2010/09/08
Could U be the most beautiful bike in the world?
2010/08/18
Ron Cooper on Ron Cooper
2010/08/04
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away
2010/07/29
Looking back at Le Tour and ahead to ‘Bicycle Thieves’
2010/07/27
Velocio’s 7 Commandments for the Wise Cyclist
2010/07/22
Talking Le Tour with Paul Fournel
2010/07/21
London Assembly Member Jenny Jones rides the Cycle Superhighway
2010/07/16
Road Test: London’s new cycle hire bikes
2010/07/14
Gavin Turk’s ‘Les Bikes du Bois Rond’
2010/07/14
Un Tour de France de Londres with Stephen Bayley
2010/07/08
Le Tour des Vins de France (part two)
2010/07/01
Le Tour des Vins de France (part one)
2010/06/30
Cyclists and lorries don’t mix: this week’s evidence
2010/06/24
Now We Are Six (part one)
2010/06/22
Mayor of London’s Cycling Questions (and answers): June 2010
2010/06/17
Lock it or lose it
2010/06/16
Bicycle Revolutionary
2010/06/16
A Journey Into Tranquility
2010/06/08
A Life On Two Wheels
2010/06/02
Giro d’Italia at Look Mum No Hands
2010/05/25
Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization?
2010/05/18
Season opener: Berlin, bikes & public art, Dunwich Dynamo
2010/05/10
Resonance On Air Fundraising Weekend
2010/05/01
Lorries/HGVs/LGVs killing cyclists: an appeal to London listeners
2010/03/22
Cycling Questions and Answers from the Mayor of London: February 2010
2010/03/02
The Racing Year with Lionel Birnie
2010/02/17
We’re all Aristoteleans now
2010/02/10
Cycling Questions and Answers from the Mayor of London: January 2010
2010/02/05
Do It Yourself
2010/01/26
If the bike fits…
2010/01/19
Well-being
2010/01/12
Jumble Jumble
2010/01/04
Mayor’s Question Time: Cycling (December)
2009/12/18
Red light means go (or does it?)
2009/12/15
Reading and riding: Christmas books special
2009/12/08
The physics of running red lights
2009/12/07
Mayor’s Question Time: Cycling (November)
2009/12/01
Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part two)
2009/11/30
Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part one)
2009/11/23
Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics
2009/11/16
Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY)
2009/11/09
Season Opener: Childhood Daze
2009/10/26
A modest proposal to save lives: extend the lorry ban by three hours
2009/10/23
TfL Draft Cycle Safety Action Plan: plenty of carrots but where are the sticks?
2009/10/23
Cycling questions and answers from the Mayor of London: Oct 09
2009/10/22
Getting to Le Grand Départ
2009/10/14
Cycle Show Round Up
2009/10/09
Fixie-Killer: Sturmey Archer S2C
2009/10/08
Harriet Harman: On Your Bike!
2009/10/05
Podcasts on the radio
2009/09/23
Cycle Super-MyWays
2009/09/17
Cycle Chic
2009/08/03
Le Tour Redux
2009/07/28
More AudioBoo fun: Tour de France reflections
2009/07/26
Charging up my iPod for a summer cycle tour
2009/07/26
From Sublime to Ridiculous
2009/07/21
Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher
2009/07/16
Vive la bicyclette!
2009/07/15
Blazing Saddles: Inside the Brooks factory
2009/07/13
Tour de France books list
2009/07/09
Tour de Farce?
2009/07/06
AudioBoo the Dunwich Dynamo
2009/07/03
London to Bristol (part two)
2009/06/29
London to Bristol (part one)
2009/06/22
No Bike Week: What happened?
2009/06/08
Southwark Cyclists Film Festival – tickets on sale now
2009/06/07
Radiocycle
2009/06/02
London to Bristol
2009/04/20
Podcast only: Spring Classics Special Edition
2009/04/11
The end of the road
2009/04/01
Tell us what you think of The Bike Show
2009/03/26
16 March 2009: End of season finale – a bike pop epic
2009/03/16
9 March 2009: Legends of the Rás
2009/03/10
No Bike Week: 8-15 March
2009/03/04
2 March 2009: Riding and writing
2009/03/03
London cyclists in monkey attacks
2009/02/26
23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week
2009/02/23
16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession
2009/02/17
The Bike Show on Twitter
2009/02/16
London cycle hire scheme – the lowdown
2009/02/12
9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics
2009/02/10
Today’s show snowed out
2009/02/02
26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland Coast
2009/01/27
Return of The Bike Show: Monday 26 January 2009
2009/01/20
City of London: Cyclist traffic casualty statistics
2008/11/01
20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle
2008/10/20
13 October 2008: Emergency – Lorries Killing Cyclists
2008/10/14
City of London Police: Road Safety Forum
2008/10/14
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
2008/10/07
Superb BBC Radio 4 documentary about bike messengers in London
2008/10/07
6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two)
2008/10/06
29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one)
2008/09/29
27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town
2008/09/27
Ride the Gridiron 100 – Sunday 5th October
2008/09/26
CycleSafeLondon.com
2008/09/26
22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’
2008/09/22
15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?
2008/09/15
8 September 2008: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend
2008/09/08
1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two)
2008/09/03
11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one)
2008/08/11
4 August 2008: Cycling, politics and ideology
2008/08/06
28 July 2008: Looking back at Le Tour 2008
2008/07/28
21 July 2008: Sublime Nights: Dunwich Dynamo 16 and S24O with Grant Peterson
2008/07/21
14 July 2008: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets
2008/07/14
7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides
2008/07/07
30 June 2008: London Lidos by Bicycle
2008/06/30
23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive
2008/06/23
16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones
2008/06/16
The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last
2008/06/09
Resonance FM benefit 18 May: Robyn Hitchcock & more
2008/05/14
Summer Solstice night ride to Stonehenge
2008/05/13
Off-air antics: L’Enfer du Nord
2008/04/14
3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours
2008/03/06
25 February 2008: Will Vélib work in London?
2008/02/27
18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix
2008/02/19
11 February 2007: Love
2008/02/11
Pay tribute to the mighty Sheldon Brown
2008/02/05
4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps)
2008/02/04
28 January 2008: Transition Town Bicycling
2008/01/28
21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure
2008/01/21
14 January 2008: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat?
2008/01/14
7 January 2008: New Year’s Resolutions
2008/01/08
From London to Parris…
2007/12/29
17 December 2007: London Olympics 2012
2007/12/18
10 December 2007: How to Win at Roller-Racing
2007/12/11
Vote Now: £50 million for cycle paths
2007/12/07
3 December 2007: Fixed Fever
2007/12/04
26 November 2007: Christmas books special
2007/11/27
19 November 2007: Tales of the summer
2007/11/21
The Bike Show is back
2007/11/14
What Ho! Bicycle Polo hits London
2007/10/05
Studio to studio
2007/09/23
The World’s Oldest Bicycle Race?
2007/09/20
Floyd Landis: The Drugs Don’t Work
2007/09/20
Resonance FM Is Back: Celebration Ride: 23/9/07
2007/09/20
‘A gem on the airwaves’
2007/08/28
Le Tour in London
2007/07/17
Off air for a while…
2007/07/12
Bike Show / Scooterworks Tour De France party: 6-7 July
2007/07/04
The Bike Show presents the British premier of Raes’s Symphony for Singing Bicycles
2007/07/03
2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives
2007/07/02
25 June 2007: Flandrien
2007/06/26
18 June 2007: Style on two wheels
2007/06/19
The Bike Show featured in Momentum Magazine
2007/06/18
11 June 2007: ‘Slow Bicycling’ in Italy; on two wheels in Provence
2007/06/11
Tweed Cycling Club featured in The Chap magazine
2007/06/05
4 June 2007: To Paris for La Fête du Vélo // Unicycling in South Dakota
2007/06/04
28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling
2007/05/30
21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell
2007/05/22
14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis
2007/05/15
Bike Show back on air on 14 May
2007/05/11
1 May 2007: Podcast special: ‘Stannerd’ comes out for cycling
2007/05/01
Date for your diary: Symphony for Singing Bicycles: 7 July 2007
2007/04/30
Off air antics
2007/04/19
12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype
2007/03/12
5 March 2007: Green London?
2007/03/07
26 February 2007: Calling All Bicycle Filmmakers!
2007/02/27
Vote for The Bike Show
2007/02/21
12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music
2007/02/14
5 February 2007: Cyclosportives, bicycle podcasting and Budapest
2007/02/08
29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle
2007/02/02
Thanks!!
2007/01/31
22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling
2007/01/23
15 January 2007: Women bike messengers and a ride through a very long tunnel
2007/01/16
8 January 2007 – Doorstep Adventures with Patrick Field (part two)
2007/01/09
The Bike Show’s Kieron Yates on BBC Radio 4’s Excess Baggage
2007/01/06
18 December 2006: Doorstep adventures with Patrick Field (Part one)
2006/12/19
11 December 2006 – The Christmas edition
2006/12/15
4 December 2006: Sur le pavé in Brussels
2006/12/04
27 November 2006: Berlin special
2006/11/27
20 November 2006: Experimental music and the bicycle
2006/11/20
13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities
2006/11/14
Problems over the last few weeks…
2006/11/07
6 November 2006: Edinburgh by train, low carbon travel
2006/11/07
23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 – Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets
2006/10/24
9 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part two)
2006/10/09
2 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part one)
2006/10/03
Free tickets to the Cycle Show 2006
2006/10/02
31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory
2006/08/01
24 July 2006: Remembering Major Taylor – the fastest man on the planet
2006/07/24
17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub
2006/07/17
10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson
2006/07/11
3 July 2006: Creativity, design and the bicycle
2006/07/07
26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling
2006/06/27
The Bike Show is 2: party with us!
2006/06/21
19 June 2006: It’s Bike Week!
2006/06/20
12 June 2006: A ride in the Royal Parks
2006/06/19
Come and make bicycle radio!
2006/05/18
Dunwich Dynamo 2006 – Route Map!
2006/05/16
24 April 2006 – Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex
2006/04/24
Cycling in New York City (part two)
2006/04/18
Cycling in New York City (part one)
2006/04/11
3 April 2006: Standing up for Cycling; Tall Bikes
2006/04/04
27 March 2006: Bicycle recycling
2006/03/30
20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session
2006/03/28
13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part two
2006/03/16
6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part one
2006/03/16
27 February 2006 – Bicycles on trains
2006/03/01
Bike Show featured in London Cyclist magazine
2006/02/22
Deadley Treadleys in live Bike Show session: 20 March 2006
2006/02/22
20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media
2006/02/21
13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007!
2006/02/17
Bike Show taking a break…(for a few weeks)
2006/01/23
19 December 2005 – Kids on bikes?
2005/12/24
5 December 2005 Show – Police on bikes!!
2005/12/09
28 November 2005: Surviving the winter on two wheels
2005/11/29
21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown
2005/11/24
The Bike Show wins award!
2005/11/07
The Bike Show crosses the North Atlantic
2005/11/03
Critical Mass: For London, it’s time to move on
2005/11/01
31 October 2005: Roller-racing, Ghostcycle and Critical Mass London
2005/11/01
The long wait is over…the Bike Show in iTunes
2005/10/28
24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival
2005/10/27
17 October 2005 Show: ‘Deviant’ cyclists and the Pushbike Architecture Treasure Hunt
2005/10/18
Bike Show featured in City Cycling Magazine
2005/10/10
(Archive) 11 April 2005 Show: Onset
2005/10/07
21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Maillot Jaune
2005/10/07
25 April 2005: G8 Protest Bike Ride
2005/10/07
(Archive) 31 January 2005: Rose Ades
2005/10/07
28 March 2005: Navindh Baburam
2005/10/07
(Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry
2005/10/07
(Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs
2005/10/07
20 December 2004
2005/10/07
6 December 2004: London cycling
2005/10/07
(Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo
2005/09/21
15 August 2005: Green cycling
2005/09/20
Kraftwerk and the ultimate man machine
2005/09/18
22 August 2005 Show – a countryside trip
2005/09/05
18 July 2005: Le Tour De France
2005/08/13
8 August 2005 Show: History of the bicycle; London-Edinburgh-London audax ride
2005/08/13
16 May Show: Riding with Buffalo Bill
2005/08/11
4 April 2005: Rosie Walford
2005/08/11
24 January 2005 – Jeremy Deller
2005/08/08
27 December 2004: Mark Ellen
2005/08/06
10 January 2005: Kraftwerk and Cycling
2005/08/05
18 April 2005: Paris-Roubaix Classic
2005/08/04
2 May 2005: The Hungry Cyclist
2005/08/04
1 August 2005: Cycling after the London bomb attacks
2005/08/02
13 June 2005: Bike Week Special
2005/08/01
9 May 2005: London Velodrome at Herne Hill
2005/07/29
Podcasting resumes….
2005/07/28
25 July Show: Johnny Green
2005/07/28
** Podcasting suspended **
2005/07/19
A very American tour of duty
2005/07/17
13 June – Bike Week Special!!
2005/06/07
23 May Show: Buffalo Bill // Giro D’Italia
2005/05/24
Will you still love me tomorrow?
2005/05/18
A few listeners have emailed me asking for playlis…
2005/05/10
Web listening statistics
2005/05/08
Welcome to the Resonance 104.4 FM Bike Show weblog
2005/02/09
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