The Bike Show from Resonance FM » London

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 Rec...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycle-revolution-at-londons-design-museum/

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 w...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-and-modernity/

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 t...

https://thebikeshow.net/rolling-with-klaus/

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 t...

https://thebikeshow.net/space-for-cycling-the-big-campaign/

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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/campaigning-for-cycling/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/going-the-distance/

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 othe...

https://thebikeshow.net/high-on-a-mountain-top/

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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/uphill-state-of-mind/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/live-from-the-va-bike-v-design/

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 A...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-bright-new-dawn-for-cycling-in-london/

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, form...

https://thebikeshow.net/when-will-we-stop-lorries-killing-cyclists/

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, Artcr...

https://thebikeshow.net/happy-christmas-from-the-vulpine-christmas-fete/

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 ri...

https://thebikeshow.net/across-africa-by-bike-part-two/

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 produc...

https://thebikeshow.net/spilling-the-beans/

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, a...

https://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-polo-cosmic-style/

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, directo...

https://thebikeshow.net/live-from-belgium-house/

“I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in.” A line sung by the young Kenny Rogers in 1967, the summer of love, over a psychedelic haze of backwards guitar, feedback and ...

https://thebikeshow.net/dunwich-dynamo-2012/

Bike blogger Mark Ames (ibikelondon.blogspot.com) joins Jack and Jen to talk about this week's elections for London Mayor. Is there a cycling vote? Which candidate is best? Views from blogger Dan...

https://thebikeshow.net/voting-bike-at-the-london-mayoral-election/

With the start of British Summer Time we profile two upcoming mass rides: Velonotte London and the Edinburgh Pedal on Parliament. On the night of Saturday 23rd June, Sergey Nikitin's Velonotte (p...

https://thebikeshow.net/summers-here-velonotte-pedal-on-parliament/

A rolling interview with Christian Wolmar, journalist, cyclist and Britain’s leading transport commentator. We ride from Tufnell Park to St Pancras and encounter a flood, demon drivers and Camd...

https://thebikeshow.net/christian-wolmar-on-londons-transport-choice/

In the studio with Stephen Taylor and Katherine Hibbert of Londoners On Bikes a new group of London cyclists who want to put cycling front and centre in the London Mayoral elections this May. Plu...

https://thebikeshow.net/londoners-on-bikes-with-votes/

Poster by kaputniq, Creative Commons license The post Super Highway first appeared on The Bike Show .

https://thebikeshow.net/super-highway/

Jack goes down to the London Bike Show, an annual fair of bicycles and cycling paraphernalia. He eschews the latest electronic gear systems in search of novel products made by interesting people....

https://thebikeshow.net/down-at-the-london-bike-show/

Flowers and candles for Ellie Carey, a 22-year old woman killed while cycling on Tower Bridge Road on 2 December 2011. The flowers and candles were left by family and friends on 14 December follo...

https://thebikeshow.net/make-our-junctions-safer/

In the studio is Mustafa Arif, Chair of Campaigns at the 11,000 strong London Cycling Campaign. We look back at the weekend’s Tour Du Danger, a bicycle ride around ten of the most hazardous jun...

https://thebikeshow.net/campaigning-for-a-civilised-cycling-city/

Following a spate of deaths and serious injuries to London cyclists, there is a growing campaign to make London streets safer for cycling and walking. Under questioning from various members of th...

https://thebikeshow.net/boris-johnson-safety-cycling-london/

Some people say that air pollution in big cities like London is a public health emergency, contributing to 4,300 premature deaths a year. But nobody seems to talk about it. Is the Government doin...

https://thebikeshow.net/is-london-air-killing-us/

Here’s the Mayor and Transport for London’s plan for the new northern end junction of Blackfriars Bridge: And here’s the new plan from the London Cycling Campaign: Which do you prefer? If y...

https://thebikeshow.net/compare-and-contrast/

Jen meets Tim Jacques, one of the film-makers at this year’s Bicycle Film Festival, whose film “Peace and Lovely Tailoring” combines Rastafari, cycling and tweed clothing – a surefire win...

https://thebikeshow.net/jah-tweed/

As Mark Cavendish wins the world championship road race for Britain for the first time since 1965, we’re back in the saddle for a new season. On this week’s show, a trip back in time. Blue Do...

https://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-time-travelling/

The ‘Battle for Blackfriars’ has united London cyclists and pedestrians in opposition to plans by the Mayor of London for an ‘urban motorway’ on a London bridge that is heavily used by cy...

https://thebikeshow.net/blackfriars-and-beyond/

In the face of a unanimous motion of the London Assembly and the Mayor’s own misgivings, Transport for London plans this weekend to build a dangerous new gyratory on the north side of Blackfria...

https://thebikeshow.net/blackfriars-bridge-the-limits-of-peaceful-protest/

This amendment to a motion tabled by Jenny Jones and Caroline Pigeon has been unanimously agreed by the London Assembly: “This Assembly notes the decision to revert to a 30 mph speed limit on B...

https://thebikeshow.net/amendment-to-motion-on-blackfriars-bridge/

In its 19th edition this year, the Dunwich Dynamo is London’s greatest mass participation ride – bar none. In the studio are Patrick Field, who first conceived the ride and two London cyclist...

https://thebikeshow.net/dunwich-dynamo-2011-preview/

Each year on the roads of this country upwards of 2,000 people are killed and many tens of thousands more are injured in road crashes. The perception of danger is one of the most common reasons p...

https://thebikeshow.net/road-danger-reduction-with-dr-robert-davis/

On a Midsummer’s Night Dixe Wills, travel writer and author of a new book on Britain’s tiny campsites, guides us on a ride from central London up the Lea Valley to a wild camping spot for a �...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-midsummer-misadventure-dixe-wills/

In the studio is Bike Show regular ‘Buffalo’ Bill Chidley, who brings news of London’s burgeoning bicycle polo scene (note imminent rebranding as ‘urban bike hammer ball’). The London O...

https://thebikeshow.net/keep-the-red-stuff-in/

Community bike workshops are a beautiful idea. A place where anyone can learn the basics of bicycle repair by doing it for themselves with the help of volunteer mechanics – and have access to s...

https://thebikeshow.net/fix-your-own-bike/

Here you see one of the Mayor of London’s flagship cycling policies, known as cycle superhighways. They’re great, aren’t they? They darn well should be. The first two cost £22 million. Tha...

https://thebikeshow.net/cyclists-welcome-to-london/

Jenny Jones is a member of the London Assembly and is standing as the Green Party’s candidate in the 2012 London Mayoral elections. We ride from her home in Walworth/Peckham borders to City Hal...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-green-mayor-on-the-campaign-trail-with-jenny-jones/

Utterly brilliant primer on the post war history of road building in London. Better than TV. The post Abercrombie and all that first appeared on The Bike Show .

https://thebikeshow.net/abercrombie-and-all-that/

We’re free to wear whatever we please while riding a bike. But to those who might be considering a compulsory helmet law, like that in Australia or the law that looks as though it may be adopte...

https://thebikeshow.net/no-bicycle-helmet-law-here-please/

Transport for London has released detailed usage data on the first five months of London’s new Cycle Hire Scheme, known as ‘Borisbikes’ after the London Mayor Boris Johnson who has presided...

https://thebikeshow.net/digging-through-london-cycle-hire-data/

Kieron Yates‘s documentary feature on the countryside huts of the 32nd Association of North London cycle clubs sparks a discussion on the demise of the traditional cycling club and the possibil...

https://thebikeshow.net/up-the-uts-the-slow-death-and-rebirth-of-the-british-cycling-club/

This video shows off the very best of cycling in London. It’s no surprise that the film features a several shots of people enjoying cycling along the Thames Path, on the south bank of the River...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-ban-south-bank/

Mark Ames writes ibikelondon, one of the best of London’s blossoming bike blogs. We discuss the city planning ideas of Jan Gehl, the intellectual godfather of Copenhagenization. We hear what Br...

https://thebikeshow.net/bike-blogging-jan-gehl-eric-pickles-mp/

On the day before the completion of the construction phase of London’s new 6,000-seat velodrome on the 2012 Olympic site, we are treated to a sneak peek. Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects prese...

https://thebikeshow.net/inside-the-2012-olympic-velodrome/

Ron Cooper is a legend in frame-building. He started as a fifteen-year-old apprentice with A.S. Gillott, and his frames have come to define the very best of the British lightweight style. He talk...

https://thebikeshow.net/ron-cooper-on-ron-cooper/

More than a few people have raised objections to the way the Mayor of London has, for the relatively modest sum of £5 million a year for 5 years, given Barclays bank the right to paint large swa...

https://thebikeshow.net/scrub-away-scrub-away-scrub-away/

Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly shares his best moments of this year’s sensational Tour De France. Plus we look ahead to Bicycle Thieves, which combines theatre and BMXing on the streets of Lon...

https://thebikeshow.net/le-tour-bicycle-thieves/

An extended, hour long edition of the show featuring French writer, poet, cyclist and cultural ambassador Paul Fournel (pictured). We stroll from the French House in Soho to the Rapha Cycle Club ...

https://thebikeshow.net/talking-le-tour-with-paul-fournel/

Jenny Jones asks all the right questions. Good, campaigning stuff from the Green Party Assembly member. The post London Assembly Member Jenny Jones rides the Cycle Superhighway first appeared ...

https://thebikeshow.net/london-assembly-member-jenny-jones-rides-the-cycle-superhighway/

On 30 July, 6,000 bicycles will be available for hire on the streets of London. Registration costs £1 a day, £5 a week or £45 a year and the bicycles are free for the first 30 minutes, then a ...

https://thebikeshow.net/road-test-londons-new-cycle-hire-bikes/

Tim Dawson joins artist Gavin Turk on the first of two rides in the East Anglian countryside. Plus a detailed look at the Mayor of London’s new cycle hire bikes, with Transport for London’s G...

https://thebikeshow.net/gavin-turks-les-bikes-du-bois-rond/

As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, Stephen Bayley leads a ride around the best of French architecture, art and design to be found on the streets of London. Stephen Bayley i...

https://thebikeshow.net/un-tour-de-france-de-londres-with-stephen-bayley/

Not much text needed to accompany these photographs taken yesterday on the streets of Southwark and posted on the SE1 Forum. Exhibit A: Lorry and cyclist collide on Borough High Street, junction ...

https://thebikeshow.net/cyclists-and-lorries-dont-mix-this-weeks-evidence/

With thanks as ever to the office of Jenny Jones AM here is this month’s batch of cycling questions and answers to the Mayor of London. Ian in Jenny’s office writes, “Lots of interesting an...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-questions-june/

Talking bicycle security with author and blogger Rob Ainsley and Anthony Lau, architect and designer of the excellent Cycle Hoop that cheaply converts street furniture into cycle racks. Anthony i...

https://thebikeshow.net/lock-it-or-lose-it/

As the Giro d’Italia enters its third week, we discuss Italy’s great stage race with Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly, in an experimental live broadcast from Look Mum No Hands, London’s newe...

https://thebikeshow.net/giro-ditalia-at-look-mum-no-hands/

A long, hard look at the Mayor of London’s plans for 12 cycle superhighways – bike routes from the outer boroughs along London’s main arterial roads. With Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson’s ...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycle-superhighways-waste-of-paint-or-copenhagenization/

Can London ever be as good a cycling city as Berlin? Helen Pidd of the Guardian and Matt Tempest give their views. Artist Mila Lipowicz talks about East London Local(Eyes): an interactive video i...

https://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-berlin-bikes-public-art-dunwich-dynamo/

Last Thursday, on what felt like a warm, sunny first day of Spring, I was witness to the immediate aftermath of a collision involving a cyclist and a 32 tonne articulated lorry. It was a truly ho...

https://thebikeshow.net/lorry-hgv-lgv-an-appeal-to-london-listeners/

With thanks to the Greater London Authority, here are the cycling-related questions put to the Mayor of London, and his answers, for the month of February 2010. Bicycle Docking Stations (1) Quest...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-questions-and-answers-from-the-mayor-of-london-february-2010/

With thanks to the Greater London Authority, here are the cycling-related questions put to the Mayor of London, and his answers, for the month of January 2010. Commercial vehicle enforcement (1) ...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-questions-and-answers-from-the-mayor-of-london-january-2010/

January is the perfect month to take a closer look at how to stay feeling good on the bike. In the studio to share their expertise are Michael Crebbin, a sports physio specialising in cycling-rel...

https://thebikeshow.net/well-being/

With thanks to the office of Jenny Jones AM, here is the monthly digest of questions and answers to the Mayor that are relevant to cycling. Boris Johnson (Chair, TfL) and Peter Hendy (Commissione...

https://thebikeshow.net/mayors-question-time-cycling-dec-09/

This week’s show looks at the chronic lack of bicycle mechanics with the Ninon Asuni of Bicycle Workshop. Ninon founded Bicycle Workshop nearly thirty years ago after deciding she’d had enoug...

https://thebikeshow.net/wanted-bicycle-mechanics/

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 60,0...

https://thebikeshow.net/calling-time-on-sorry-mate-i-didnt-see-you-smidsy/

Here’s an idea to make London safer for cyclists: keep the biggest lorries off the streets during the morning rush hour. If enacted I am confident it would save lives. It can be done by tweakin...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-modest-proposal/

Transport for London has published a draft Cycle Safety Action Plan. Comments on the plan are required by December 11th 2009. The plan is good in parts but the emphasis is on voluntary measures, ...

https://thebikeshow.net/tfl-draft-cycle-safety-action-plan/

Here are the cycling-related questions from the London Assembly answered by the Mayor this month. The questions cover a wide range of subjects, from lorries killing cyclists (including a question...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-questions-and-answers-from-the-mayor-of-london-oct-09/

Boris Johnson is London’s first cycling Mayor and he has put a ‘cycling revolution’ at the heart of his programme of government. As well as the Cycle Hire Scheme, Mayor Johnson has announce...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycle-supermyways/

Riding with Amy Fleuriot, a young British fashion designer who’s Cyclodelic range of clothing and accessories is offering women a more stylish alternative to the typically drab clothing sold to...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycle-chic/

Pedal Pusher is a play that follows three professional cyclists, Jan Ullrich, Marco Pantani and Lance Armstrong, in the most dramatic recent era of professional cycle sport. From the young prodig...

https://thebikeshow.net/theatre-review-pedal-pusher/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/no-bike-week-what-happened/

The Bike Show emerges from its late spring hibernation into the bright sunlight of the summer season. This week’s show features a ride south from the Resonance FM studio to the southern limit o...

https://thebikeshow.net/radiocycle/

In the last of the current season we drop in on a police bicycle auction to pick up a bargain. Plus a bike pop epic from the Grave Architects (pictured above) and we hear from Jo Upton, presenter...

https://thebikeshow.net/end-of-season-finale-a-bike-pop-epic/

London’s cyclists have plenty to contend with whether it’s deadly lorries and trucks, bendy-buses, white van man or suicidal pedestrians stepping out without looking. But now there is a viole...

https://thebikeshow.net/london-cyclists-in-monkey-attacks/

Bicycle 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 Wo...

https://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-polo-and-no-bike-week/

With 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 busin...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycling-and-the-recession/

An accident of geography means that, official speaking, I’m a Lambeth Cyclist but I’m a Southwark Cyclist at heart, not least because of the dynamic Barry Mason, the quirky Rob Ainsley, the l...

https://thebikeshow.net/london-cycle-hire-scheme-the-lowdown/

I previously wrote about last months’ City of London Police’s recent Road Safety Forum. I mentioned some statistics that were presented by Sergeant Alan Rickwood. Sergeant Ringwood was kind e...

https://thebikeshow.net/city-of-london-cyclist-traffic-casualty-statistics/

The 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 t...

https://thebikeshow.net/inventing-the-perfect-folding-bicycle/

After 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 Cycl...

https://thebikeshow.net/13-october-2008-emergency-lorries-killing-cyclists/

This morning I attended the Road Safety Forum organised by the City of London police, at their Snow Hill police station, near Smithfield Market. It was a good meeting, well attended by a range of...

https://thebikeshow.net/city-of-london-police-road-safety-forum/

Nice to see the police setting an example. Today at 2.20pm on Webber Street, corner of Blackfriars Road, SE1. For those who don’t know, this is an Advance Stop Line, a ‘safe place’ for cycl...

https://thebikeshow.net/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/

Over the summer BBC Radio 4 aired a half-hour programme about life as a bicycle messenger here in London. First of all, what the programme does really well is convey the magic of daily cycling in...

https://thebikeshow.net/superb-bbc-radio-4-documentary-about-bike-messengers-in-london/

The 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 Cine...

https://thebikeshow.net/bicycle-film-festival-comes-to-town/

Two 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...

https://thebikeshow.net/cyclesafelondoncom/

https://thebikeshow.net/22-september-2008-grant-peterson-on-overnight-trips-and-a-visit-to-londons-anti-bike-shop/

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, pr...

https://thebikeshow.net/are-cargo-bikes-the-future-of-urban-transport/

This year’s Dunwich Dynamo was perfect: a dry, moonlit night, a tail wind and a hot sunny morning on the beach. Around 500 people enjoyed the sixteenth edition of the classic British night ride...

https://thebikeshow.net/21-july-2008-sublime-nights-dunwich-dynamo-16-and-s24o-with-grant-peterson/

Celebrating Bastille Day and the first week of Le Tour De France plus a discussion of civilised streets with Louise Duggan, streets advisor at the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built...

https://thebikeshow.net/14-july-2008-vive-le-tour-london-street-design/

A ride along the splendid London end of the Grand Union Canal with Rob Ainsley, London cyclist and author of 50 Quirky Bike Rides, a new book about weird and wonderful places to go on bicycles in...

https://thebikeshow.net/7-july-2008-50-quirky-bike-rides/

A tour of London lidos by bicycle with Jason Cobb, a lido enthusiast, cyclist, photographer and author of Onion Bag Blog, a blog devoted to life in the Stockwell-Oval-Brixton triangle. Taking in ...

https://thebikeshow.net/30-june-2008-london-lidos-by-bicycle/

Featuring an interview with Stephen Bayley, design editor of The Observer, about his guided cycle ride around the houses and homes of celebrated London artists and architects which kicks of a fan...

https://thebikeshow.net/23-june-2008-london-architecture-by-bike-and-a-rapha-exclusive/

https://thebikeshow.net/16-june-2008-from-the-tropics-to-the-stones/

The Fluxus Olympiad took place over the late May bank holiday weekend at the Tate Modern and one of the highlights was a Slow Bicycle Race in which a handful of Bike Show presenters, contributors...

https://thebikeshow.net/the_last_shall_be_first_and_the_first_shall_be_last/

Resonance FM presents a night of live music on Sunday 18 May, with all proceeds going to keep the radio station going in 2008 and beyond. Headlining is English psychedelic folk rock legend and oc...

https://thebikeshow.net/resonance-fm-benefit-18-may-robyn-hitchcock-more/

https://thebikeshow.net/3-march-2008-cycling-troubadours/

Kieron Yates and Matt Tempest report from Paris on the Vélib bike hire system that has brough 20,000 bicycles to the streets and transformed the French capital overnight into a cycling metropo...

https://thebikeshow.net/25-february-2008-will-velib-work-in-london/

Jack Thurston is away and in his place Amy Cooper presents a show devoted to the swashbuckling Trixie Chix, London’s female fixed wheel freestylers. Will Amy and her sit-up-and-beg town bike cu...

https://thebikeshow.net/18-february-2008-trixie-chix/

In a special Valentine’s Day edition, sultry Southwark Cyclist Miss Alex Crawford explains why cycling is so good for flirting while love goddess Venus Kamura tells of the fifth annual Reclaim ...

https://thebikeshow.net/11-february-2007-love/

Private companies and revenue-hungry government agencies have always had a stranglehold on the world’s best maps, until the arrival of Open Street Map, a volunteer-driven effort akin to Wikiped...

https://thebikeshow.net/4-february-2008-reclaim-the-streetmaps/

Totnes in South Devon is where the rapidly growing ‘transition town’ movement all began. Transition towns are a response to the problem of resource depletion, peak oil and climate change and ...

https://thebikeshow.net/28-january-2008-transition-town-bicycling/

Southwark Council plans to ban cyclists from a key stretch of the Thames Path, which runs along the south bank of the Thames, alongside the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. Jack Thurston canvas...

https://thebikeshow.net/14-january-2008-are-cycling-waterloo-sunsets-under-threat/

The closing of one year and start of another is the time where many of us resolve to turn over a new leaf, change our life or otherwise embark on a virtuous but most probably doomed attempt at se...

https://thebikeshow.net/7-january-2008-new-years-resolutions/

Does the coming of Olympics in 2012 spell disaster for cycle sport in London or will it bring much needed regeneration of a neglected part of the city? A ride with Patrick Field around the perime...

https://thebikeshow.net/17-december-2007-london-olympics-2012/

Reigning Rollapaluza champion and two-time ‘Raphapaluza’ winner Simon Jackson gives his tips on how to win at the frenzied sport of static bike racing. Plus a preview of the upcoming ITV come...

https://thebikeshow.net/10-december-2007-how-to-win-at-roller-racing/

Over the past five years a craze for riding bicycles with only one gear and no freewheel has taken off, in New York, London, Sydney and cities all around the world. We take a long hard look at th...

https://thebikeshow.net/3-december-2007-fixed-fever/

The Bike Show returns for its winter season with guest in the studio Buffalo Bill reporting on this year’s Cycle Messenger World Championship in Dublin and Kieron Yates on taking part in the ep...

https://thebikeshow.net/19-november-2007-tales-of-the-summer/

As the Tour de France comes to Britain for the first time ever, what can three books tell us about the meaning of the world’s most demanding athletic contest? First published in Prospect Magazi...

https://thebikeshow.net/le-tour-in-london/

The Bike Show is officially off air at the moment, but I couldn’t resist a podcast-only edition to discuss the Evening Standard’s Damscene conversion to the way of the bicycle. For years, Lon...

https://thebikeshow.net/1-may-2007-podcast-special-edition-london-calling/

A look at London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s ambition for London to be the greenest major city in the world. Host Jack Thurston and Erica Jobson of Futerra, the London-based sustainable development...

https://thebikeshow.net/5-march-2007-green-london/

Could 2007 be the best year yet for cycling in London? In the studio with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. We discuss the coming of Le Tour de France...

https://thebikeshow.net/22-january-2007-looking-forward-to-a-great-year-for-cycling/

Women bike messengers might cut a better figure on the roads than their grungy, bearded and tattooed male counterparts, but are the girls better at their jobs than the boys? The answer is yes, if...

https://thebikeshow.net/15-january-2007-women-bike-messengers-and-a-ride-through-a-very-long-tunnel/

In the second half of a ride with London cyclist Patrick Field, we cruise on the Woolwich Ferry, ride along the Thames Path through Greenwich before crossing in a tunnel under the Thames to the I...

https://thebikeshow.net/8-january-2007-doorstep-adventures-with-patrick-field-part-two/

Riding with Patrick Field, legendary London cyclist, thinker and writer, on a leisurely route east from Hackney along the top of a giant Victorian sewerage outflow pipe towards the River Thames. ...

https://thebikeshow.net/18-december-2006-doorstep-adventures-with-patrick-field-part-one/

Back in the Resonance FM studio with Danish bike messenger elf Therese Bjorn to talk Christmas on bicycles. What to buy, what to do… and we take a look at the new London Scorcher bicycle from V...

https://thebikeshow.net/11-december-2006-the-christmas-edition/

In this last show of the current season we’re getting technical, with a visit to the Brompton factory. Bromptons are the best all round folding bicycles in the world and the invention of Andrew...

https://thebikeshow.net/31-july-2006-the-folding-miracle-inside-the-brompton-factory/

This week’s show is a Tour De France special recorded at the Charles Lamb pub in north London. The Charles Lamb is one of the few places in London that is showing Le Tour this year. I am joined...

https://thebikeshow.net/17-july-2006-le-tour-down-le-pub/

Riding with London-based desiger and artist Julia Lohmann. We begin at the Velorution bike shop in the West End, where Julia’s giant backlit illustration of animal-bicycle metamophosis is on di...

https://thebikeshow.net/3-july-2006-creativity-design-and-the-bicycle/

This week’s show has an extreme flavour. Kieron Yates visits Sheldon Brown for advice on fixed gear touring and Alex Murray tells us about his preparations for taking on this year’s Etape Du ...

https://thebikeshow.net/26-june-2006-extreme-cycling/

This year’s Bike Week coincides with the London Architecture Biennale, which has got a lot of cyclists thinking about architecture and a lot of architects thinking about cycling. At the launch ...

https://thebikeshow.net/19-june-2006-its-bike-week/

London’s eight Royal Parks stretch from Greenwich in the east to Richmond in the west and make London one of the greenest big cities in Europe. Between them, the parks’ 5500 acres of land are...

https://thebikeshow.net/12-june-2006-a-ride-in-the-royal-parks/

Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists is on hand this week to demolish all those annoying arguments used against cyclists by angry petrol-heads. Plus we witness the beginning of a 4,600 mile ride aro...

https://thebikeshow.net/3-april-2006-standing-up-for-cycling-tall-bikes/

Owing to a technical meltdown at Resonance fm HQ, we have no archived version of Monday’s show on the Waltham Forest Bicycle Recycling Project. In it’s place we have a special podcast-only ve...

https://thebikeshow.net/27-march-2006-bicycle-recycling/

This week’s show features a long-awaited live session by London’s best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys. MP3 DOWNLOAD The post 20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session first...

https://thebikeshow.net/20-march-2006-deadley-treadleys-live-session/

In this week’s show we discuss the growing problems cyclists are experiencing in putting bikes on trains. In the studio is Dave Holladay of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) which is running a...

https://thebikeshow.net/27-february-2006-bicycles-on-trains/

In this week’s show we look at cycling and the media. Do newspapers, TV and radio do justice to cyclists? Does it matter? As more and more people get on two wheels, is media coverage of cycling...

https://thebikeshow.net/20-february-2006-show-cycling-in-the-media/

The Bike Show returns after a winter break to the news that the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour De France will be in London!! Featuring the formal presentation by ASO’s Jean-Marie Leblanc and a p...

https://thebikeshow.net/13-february-2006-tour-de-france-in-london-in-2007/

Kids on bikes – a good idea or trouble around the corner? Alex Crawford finds out more by talking with Guy Bardoe of the School Travel Plan campaign in the London Borough of Southwark and askin...

https://thebikeshow.net/19-december-2005-kids-on-bikes/

This week we look at the subject of police and paramedics on bikes. Kieron Yates interviews Sergeant Robert Bliss of the City of London police’s cycle team. And a big shout to Bike Show listene...

https://thebikeshow.net/5-december-2005-show-police-on-bikes/

This week newbie cyclist Alex Crawford and veteran London bike messenger Buffalo Bill swap notes on how to survive the winter on two wheels. Featuring interviews with Simon from Brixton Cycles an...

https://thebikeshow.net/28-november-2005-surviving-the-winter-on-two-wheels/

Joining Buffalo Bill and the hardcore of London’s bike messengers for chaotic indoor racing action at Rollapalooza IV (and live music from the Deadley Treadleys). In the studio Scott and Steve ...

https://thebikeshow.net/31-october-2005-show-roller-racing-ghostcycle-and-critical-mass-london/

On this week’s show Kieron Yates investigates the City of London Police’s recent crackdown on ‘deviant cyclists’ and asks John Knight of the London Bicycle Messengers’ Association for h...

https://thebikeshow.net/17-october-2005-show-deviant-cyclists-and-the-pushbike-architecture-treasure-hunt/

Riding with Rose Ades, head of Transport for London’s cycling centre of excellence and chief cycling adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Cycle training with Ben Bowskill. Bicycle bell test...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-31-january-2005-rose-ades/

Guest in the studio is 2004 Greater London Assembly candidate Navindh Baburam, pioneer of London’s cycle rickshaws, committed rider of recumbent bicycles and debonair man about town. MP3 The ...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-28-march-2005-show-navindh-baburam/

Guest in the studio is Simon Brammer, Director of the London Cycle Campaign. James Foster memorial ride. Waterloo Bridge roundabout. MP3 The post 6 December 2004: London cycling first appeared...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-6-december-2004-show-london-cycling/

Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3 The post (Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dyn...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-13-december-2004-the-dunwich-dynamo/

Guest presenter Matt Tempest quizzes Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly on cycle policy in the capital. Jack rides with Alix Stredwick of Sustrans, the UK’s main sustai...

https://thebikeshow.net/15-august-2005-show/

Today’s show features the first part of a two-part interview/ride with ‘Buffalo’ Bill Chidley, Chair of the London Bicycle Messengers Association. The LBMA works for London’s 400-500 bicy...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-16-may-show-riding-with-buffalo-bill/

This week’s show features Rosie Walford, psychologist and founder of The Big Stretch explaining how cycling helps improve your powers of creative thinking by moving your brain into an alpha sta...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-4-april-2005-rosie-walford/

Riding with Jeremy Deller, London-based artist and recent winner of the Turner Prize, who dedicated his win to ‘all London cyclists’. The post 24 January 2005 – Jeremy Deller first appea...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-24-january-2005-jeremy-deller/

Riding across London with Mark Ellen, bon rouleur and editor of Word Magazine. Mark is the founder of Q Magazine, a former presenter of the Old Grey Whistle Test and the bassist in Tony Blair’s...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-27-december-2004-mark-ellen/

The July bomb attacks on the London underground and bus network has resulted in a massive increase in the numbers of people cycling to work instead of taking public transport. In this week’s Bi...

https://thebikeshow.net/1-august-2005-cycling-after-the-london-bomb-attacks/

This is the audio for the Bike Week special, recorded on 13 June. Guest in the studio is Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists. Features recordings of Bike Fest in the Square and highlights from the ...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-13-june-show/

Feature on the more than century-old London Velodrome at Herne Hill, and interview with Graeme Geddes of the Friends of the London Velodrome. A 1961 IBM computer playing ‘Daisy Daisy’, Veloru...

https://thebikeshow.net/9-may-show-london-velodrome-at-herne-hill/

Today’s show is a Giro D’Italia special, recorded from Bar Italia in Soho. Also featuring the second half of my ride with Buffalo Bill Chidley, chair of the London Bicycle Messengers Associat...

https://thebikeshow.net/23-may-show-giro-ditalia/