The Bike Show Podcast from Resonance FM

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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/no-cops-no-cars-no-concrete-gary-fishers-life-on-two-wheels/

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 m...

https://thebikeshow.net/are-modern-bikes-rubbish/

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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/planning-your-next-bike-adventure/

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 Kee...

https://thebikeshow.net/rough-stuff-in-the-north-york-moors/

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 h...

https://thebikeshow.net/from-usk-to-wye-with-dr-ian-walker/

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 occasio...

https://thebikeshow.net/isla-rowntree/

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, Austri...

https://thebikeshow.net/so-you-want-to-go-cycling-in-ww1-battlefields/

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-support...

https://thebikeshow.net/this-is-not-a-tour/

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 s...

https://thebikeshow.net/cycletouring-the-tour-de-france/

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 Bo...

https://thebikeshow.net/preston-by-bike-gavin-renshaw/

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 L...

https://thebikeshow.net/when-podcasts-collide/

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 evolutio...

https://thebikeshow.net/higher-faster-rougher-wilder-with-max-leonard/

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,...

https://thebikeshow.net/can-cycling-save-the-world-with-the-guardians-peter-walker/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/200-years-of-cycling/

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 o...

https://thebikeshow.net/indian-pacific-wheel-race-overlanders/

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 gui...

https://thebikeshow.net/under-monmouthshire-skies-riding-with-mike-parker/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/chris-boardman-a-life-in-cycling/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/what-goes-around/

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 bo...

https://thebikeshow.net/peace-race-tour-de-france-race-against-stasi-herbie-sykes/

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 ru...

https://thebikeshow.net/adventures-in-bikepacking/

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. C...

https://thebikeshow.net/aint-nuthin-but-a-g-thang-geraint-thomass-world-of-cycling/

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/

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 us...

https://thebikeshow.net/really-useful-bikes-from-the-bespoked-handmade-bicycle-show/

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 Th...

https://thebikeshow.net/tour-de-france-rest-day-review-with-simon-100-climbs-warren/

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 i...

https://thebikeshow.net/tour-de-france-rest-day-review-with-edward-pickering/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/tour-de-france-preview-with-guy-andrews/

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. W...

https://thebikeshow.net/put-me-back-on-the-trike/

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 abo...

https://thebikeshow.net/bike-boom-what-bike-boom/

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 th...

https://thebikeshow.net/how-to-ride-your-bike-faster/

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 ye...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-year-on-two-wheels/

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 Beau...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-politics-of-adventure/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-near-miss-project/

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 M...

https://thebikeshow.net/christmas-books-special/

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-bik...

https://thebikeshow.net/come-the-e-bike-revolution/

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 Avonm...

https://thebikeshow.net/severn-serenade/

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-Él...

https://thebikeshow.net/rapha-at-10-and-leroica-comes-to-britain/

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/

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 Plan...

https://thebikeshow.net/woods-and-wildflowers/

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 Fran...

https://thebikeshow.net/taking-the-long-view-of-the-giro-ditalia/

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/

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, wh...

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

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 vic...

https://thebikeshow.net/lance-armstrong-juliet-macur-downfall/

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 lik...

https://thebikeshow.net/spring-season-opener-iron-horse-steel-condor/

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 → Th...

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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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-healing-machine/

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/

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 invent...

https://thebikeshow.net/high-tech-high-stakes-sturmey-archer-story/

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/

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 Cast...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-ride-in-border-country/

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 t...

https://thebikeshow.net/cest-magnifique-cest-le-tour-de-france/

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-...

https://thebikeshow.net/boardman-versus-obree/

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/

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 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/how-britain-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-bike-racing/

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 commissio...

https://thebikeshow.net/podcast-special-reading-le-tour-de-france/

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 Prof...

https://thebikeshow.net/soon-well-be-wheelbuilding/

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 She...

https://thebikeshow.net/eileen-sheridan-the-mighty-atom/

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 t...

https://thebikeshow.net/what-it-really-means-to-go-dutch/

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/

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 re...

https://thebikeshow.net/podcast-special-did-cycling-kill-kraftwerk/

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/

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 com...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-gospel-according-to-st-grant/

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/

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'...

https://thebikeshow.net/across-africa-by-bike-1/

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 br...

https://thebikeshow.net/raleigh-recollections/

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 compan...

https://thebikeshow.net/raleigh-part-two-fall/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/raleigh-part-one-rise/

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/

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 S...

https://thebikeshow.net/podcast-special-lionel-birnies-peoples-grand-tour/

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/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/long-view-tour-de-france/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/how-ned-boulting-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-tour-de-france/

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 r...

https://thebikeshow.net/stephen-roche-twenty-five-years-later/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/to-coventry-birthplace-of-the-bicycle/

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...

https://thebikeshow.net/to-copenhagen-city-of-cyclists/

At the start of the second week of this year's Giro d'Italia, we take the long view of cycle sport in Italy with John Foot, professor of modern Italian history at University College London. His b...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-century-of-italian-cycle-sport/

Cross Elvis Presley with Muhammad Ali, raise him in a grocery shop in post-war Belgium, put him on a bicycle and what do you get? The greatest cyclist of all time: Eddy Merckx. Cycling journalist...

https://thebikeshow.net/merckx-merckx-merckx/

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/

In the concluding half of an extended interview with engineer and bicycle inventor Mike Burrows, we talk about Mike's biggest passion: laid back bicycles. He explains how these human powered vehi...

https://thebikeshow.net/burrows-on-the-bicycle-part-two-laid-back/

Mike Burrows is probably best known for his design of the Lotus 108 pursuit bike that Chris Boardman rode in the Barcelona Olympics, winning the first gold medal for a British cyclist in over 70 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/burrows-on-the-bicycle-part-one/

For a second year, the Bespoked show in Bristol has provided a platform for a new generation of British bicycle framebuilders to showcase their work. Featured in this episode: Paul Villiers, Tom ...

https://thebikeshow.net/all-the-young-dudes-the-revival-of-bicycle-framebuilding-in-britain/

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/

To mark International Women's Day, a discussion of women in cycling, from bygone days of the Rational Dress Society of the late Victorian era to Britain's twenty-first century successes in compet...

https://thebikeshow.net/how-to-get-more-women-riding-bikes/

As governments around the world seek to improve conditions for cyclists, we take a look at France, a country synonymous with cycle sport but that has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to e...

https://thebikeshow.net/on-two-wheels-in-france/

is a radio journalist working for the French national broadcaster who for the past ten years has been finding his stories by bicycle. Krafft’s two wheeled reportage has taken him around Latin A...

https://thebikeshow.net/raphael-krafft-reportage-on-two-wheels/

Andrew Sykes tells of his six week summer journey from his home in Reading to the southern tip of Puglia, in Italy, along the Eurovelo 5 long-distance cycle route, and reads from Good Vibrations,...

https://thebikeshow.net/across-europe-by-bike/

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/

Earlier this month, Graeme Obree was at Look Mum No Hands! for the London launch of The Obree Way, a training manual for cyclists. Obree is a two time individual pursuit world champion, has twice...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-obree-way/

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/

In 1892 a young accountant from t, USA, quit his job and set off to cycle solo around the world. Frank Lenz rode a Rover Safety Bicycle, a revolutionary new design that would soon consign the tra...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-lost-cyclist-with-david-herlihy/

Listeners write in with recollections of their favourite ride of 2011 and most exciting plans for riding in 2012. Plus clothing designer Amy Fleuriot tells of her new Cyclodelic boutique on Colum...

https://thebikeshow.net/looking-back-at-2011/

A pre-Christmas books special is now a firmly entrenched tradition on The Bike Show. This year’s edition covers more literary ground than ever before. Amateur bicycle librarians Tim Dawson of T...

https://thebikeshow.net/reading-about-riding/

Jack travels over the Yorkshire moors to Nelson, Lancashire to visit one of the oldest and most venerable companies in British cycling. Cotton mill worker Wilf Carradice began producing his indes...

https://thebikeshow.net/another-day-in-carradice/

Jen Kerrison takes over the show for a week while Jack is away in Yorkshire, riding up hill and down dale. Jen asks if cycle training is necessary for adult cyclists. Or is riding a bike just lik...

https://thebikeshow.net/is-riding-a-bike-as-easy-as-riding-a-bike/

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/

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/

In this week’s show, Jack attempts to feign interest in the European track cycling championships and Jen gets her geography all confused. Patrick Field saves the day with an inspirational talk ...

https://thebikeshow.net/team-gb-rules-the-track-and-patrick-field-tells-it-like-it-is/

Following on from last week’s documentary feature by Kieron Yates is a studio discussion of Paris-Brest-Paris, the world’s most venerable long distance bicycle race. In the studio are PBP vet...

https://thebikeshow.net/paris-brest-paris-part-two/

The 1200km Paris-Brest et retour was first raced in 1891 and is the oldest bicycle race still in existence, currently held as a brevet de randonneur every four years. Kieron Yates shares the agon...

https://thebikeshow.net/paris-brest-paris-part-one/

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/

Looking back at the this year’s thrilling Tour de France are Lionel Birnie of Cycle Sport magazine and Alex Murray, London cyclist, amateur road racer and blogger at chasingwheels.com. Image by...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-2011-tour-de-france-a-modern-classic/

From here: …to here: The 2011 edition of the Dunwich Dynamo, the cult mass participation night ride from London to the Suffolk Coast, as experienced by listeners of The Bike Show. Thanks to eve...

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

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/

David Millar, the British road racer, one of the best riders in his generation, had it all. His first day of racing in the Tour De France brought him an impressive stage victory over Lance Armstr...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-millars-tale/

Cyclist, journalist and author Rob Penn travelled the world to put together his perfect bicycle. We talk about how his journey of discovery sheds light on the history of the bicycle and the contr...

https://thebikeshow.net/rob-penn-perfect-bike/

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/

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

https://thebikeshow.net/end-of-season-the-best-bits-2008-2010/

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/

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/

The messenger bag is one of the defining elements of the “new urban bike culture” and Bart Kyzar has been making bombproof bags for bicyclists since the mid-1990s, first with Chrome and now w...

https://thebikeshow.net/bart-kyzar-mission-workshop/

In the last show before Christmas, Jacqui Shannon reports on new opportunities for paid bike mechanic apprenticeships and Matt Sparkes files a report from Italy on L’Eroica, the annual vintage ...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-christmas-stocking-apprenticeships-leroica-and-mybikelane-com/

Studio discussion of four great lives in cycling: Kuklos, the prolific journalist who documented British cycling scene in the first half of the twentieth century; Brian Robinson (pictured, above)...

https://thebikeshow.net/four-great-lives-in-cycling/

Window shopping at the Cycle Show 2010 taking in the latest offerings from Brooks (saddles), Bisignals (lights), Bike Dock (storage), Carradice (bags), Schmidt Maschinenbau (dynamo lights) and th...

https://thebikeshow.net/knutsford-great-race-cycle-show-2010/

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/

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/

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/

It’s time to blow out the candles on The Bike Show’s great big carbo-loaded birthday cake. 6 years old! To mark the occasion this week’s show features some of the more memorable moments fro...

https://thebikeshow.net/now-we-are-six-part-one/

Sustrans is the sustainable transportation charity and lobby group that pioneered the national cycle network. It is also one of the UK’s biggest commissioners of public art. Today’s show is d...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-journey-into-tranquility/

This week, a guest production by Stuart Watt. Life’s race from childhood to old age, as told by those who live it on two wheels. Original music by Chris Annetts. If you’d like to contribute m...

https://thebikeshow.net/a-life-on-two-wheels/

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/

In an off-season podcast-only extended episode, Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly joins me to talk about the year ahead in professional road racing. We talk about the season-openers in the Gulf, th...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-racing-year-with-lionel-birnie/

David Kitchen, aka Velocio, set up the London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum almost three years ago. In a short time it has spawned an active and inventive cycling community and in the process...

https://thebikeshow.net/do-it-yourself/

Following on from last week’s show on well-being, we look at the importance of getting a good fit between rider and machine. Scherritt Knoesen of The Bike Whisperer, is a leading London-based b...

https://thebikeshow.net/if-the-bike-fits/

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/

It’s the tenth day of Christmas and this week’s show is like a Christmas stocking with bulges in all the right places. Dr Steve Fabes is about to set off on a four and a half year cycle ride ...

https://thebikeshow.net/jumble-jumble/

Should cyclists stop at red lights? Why do we feel such a strong urge to keep rolling? Should our behavior be guided by the law of the land or the laws of common courtesy? What would Isaac Newton...

https://thebikeshow.net/red-light-means-go-or-does-it/

Tim Dawson, cycling columnist for the Sunday Times, runs the Cycling Books website, the most compendious review website for cycling books. He joins me in the studio to discuss the literature of c...

https://thebikeshow.net/reading-and-riding-christmas-books-special/

The cycle camping tour continues into the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, through Vermont and into Massachusetts. Struggles with thunderstorms and flying insects and a visit to the Cran...

https://thebikeshow.net/montreal-new-york-city-part-two/

The first of two features on a north American cycle tour undertaken over the summer. Starting in cycle-friendly Montreal and Quebec’s routes vertes and camping on the shores of Lake Champlain, ...

https://thebikeshow.net/montreal-new-york-city-by-bicycle-one/

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/

A youthful feel to this season opener with a visit to Lockleaze Primary School in Bristol, one of an number of Sustrans ‘Bike It’ schools acros the country. Plus childhood memories from Paul ...

https://thebikeshow.net/season-opener-childhood-daze/

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/

Copenhagen is widely regarded as the world’s most cycle-friendly city. I ask Copenhagen’s Mayor Klaus Bondam what advice he gives to other city leaders in how to emulate the Danish capital. M...

https://thebikeshow.net/from-sublime-to-ridiculous/

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/

For long-distance cycling they’re a must and they’ll improve the look of any bicycle. Brooks leather saddles date back to the 1870s and are still made in Birmingham where they were first inve...

https://thebikeshow.net/blazing-saddles/

A long, hard look at doping in professional cycling, with journalist Lionel Birnie of Cycling Weekly and theatre director Roland Smith, whose play Pedal Pusher, opens in London on 7th July. Play ...

https://thebikeshow.net/tour-de-farce/

In an extended podcast edition of this week’s show, the journey from London to Bristol continues along the Ridgeway (pictured, left) to Avebury, one of the largest prehistoric stone circles in ...

https://thebikeshow.net/london-to-bristol-part-two/

Part one of a ride from London to Bristol, in which presenter Jack Thurston is guided by listeners to the show. First stop is St Giles’ Church in Stoke Poges, home to the ‘bicycle window’ (...

https://thebikeshow.net/london-to-bristol-part-one/

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/

The Bike Show may be off air, but come with us on a trip to Belgium, home of the Flemish hard men and De Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders). Along the way I get a surprise tour of the … Co...

https://thebikeshow.net/podcast-only-spring-classics-special-edition/

It’s the end of the road for The Bike Show. Find out why in this special podcast only final edition featuring many Bike Show favourites including Buffalo Bill, editor of Moving Target, cycle sp...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-end-of-the-road/

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/

The Rás Tailteann is an 8 day stage race in the Republic of Ireland held each May since 1953. A particularly gruelling race, some say it is Ireland’s ‘Tour de France’ and it is a much cher...

https://thebikeshow.net/legends-of-the-ras/

The Ride Journal was launched last year to widespread acclaim. Issue two is at the printers. Philip and Andrew Diprose, editor and art director, explain how they came to start a journal of person...

https://thebikeshow.net/riding-and-writing/

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/

This week’s show features Dave Brailsford, Performance Director of British Cycling, explaining how his team achieved a record medal haul at the Beijing Olympics. We also discover that Shanaze R...

https://thebikeshow.net/9-february-2009-british-cycling-bikesnobnyc/

Riding the Northumberland coast from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Daniel Start, author of the best-selling Wild Swimming, a guide to natural swimming spots in Britain. Wild Swim...

https://thebikeshow.net/26-january-2009-cycling-the-northumberland-coast/

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/

The concluding episode of a two-part feature on the story of Dr Alex Moulton and the reinvention of the bicycle. We pick up the story with the launch of the Moulton space frame design (pictured l...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-moulton-story-part-two/

The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the way, continues to push ...

https://thebikeshow.net/the-moulton-story-part-one/

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/

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/

Remembering Ian Hibell, the world’s most accomplished and intrepid long-distance cyclist and adventurer, who was run down and killed on a road in Greece last month, aged 74. He’d been on a �...

https://thebikeshow.net/8-september-2008-ian-hibell-paying-respect-to-a-legend/

Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adve...

https://thebikeshow.net/1-september-2008-around-the-world-the-hard-way-part-two/

Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the first of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adven...

https://thebikeshow.net/alastair_humphreys_part1/

On this week’s show we ask whether the bicycle and cycling are inherently left-wing or right-wing. Featuring Ruth Beale and Karen Breneman, two artists who recently rode together from London to...

https://thebikeshow.net/4-august-2008-cycling-politics-and-ideology/

Looking back at this year’s Tour De France, with Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur magazine and author and broadcaster Graeme Fife. As well as discussing the racing, we go into what it means for a...

https://thebikeshow.net/28-july-2008-looking-back-at-le-tour/

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/

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/

Paul Wonnacott has been buying, repairing and selling on used bicycles in the English countryside for almost thirty years. In an extended interview he looks back at the changes he has observed in...

https://thebikeshow.net/21-january-2008-hidden-treasure/

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/

A Christmas books special with guests George Theohari (author of the newly published Cyclist’s Companion), Guy Andrews (editor of Rouleur) and Graeme Fife (among the UK’s leading cycle writer...

https://thebikeshow.net/26-november-2007-christmas-books-special/

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/

In conversation with Julian Bray, a journalist and rider with the Rapha Condor team. Julian came to competitive cycling after falling in love with the continental tradition of the cyclosportive: ...

https://thebikeshow.net/2-july-2007-the-lowdown-on-cyclosportives/

Preview of a new exhibition of stunning photographs by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Stefan Vanfleteren that capture the essence of Flemish cycle racing. Interviews with Vanfleteren a...

https://thebikeshow.net/25-june-2007-flandrien/

T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. Andrea Casalotti of Velorution and Jean-Marie Orhan (Frenchman-about-town and founding member of the Tweed Cycling Club) offer sartorial ad...

https://thebikeshow.net/18-june-2007-style-on-two-wheels/

The Bike Show this week has a distinctly Mediterranean and gastronomic feel. Kieron Yates reports from northern Italy, the world capital of the Slow Food movement, on a ‘slow bicycle’ ride al...

https://thebikeshow.net/11-june-2007-slow-bicycling-in-italy-on-two-wheels-in-provence/

The Bike Show visits Paris’s 11th Fête du Vélo. Among the subjects discussed are Paris’s growing love affair with the Brompton folding bicycle, how Cannondale are marketing the latest urban...

https://thebikeshow.net/4-june-2007-to-paris-for-la-fete-du-velo-unicycling-in-south-dakota/

This week features a ride in the hills of north Kent hills with writer, broadcaster and cyclist Graeme Fife. Graeme is the author of several of the best English language books about cycling and L...

https://thebikeshow.net/28-may-2007-graeme-fifes-life-in-cycling/

The Bike Show returns to Essex and Martin Newell, writer, poet, musician and horticultural assassin, for another helping of Spoke N Word. This year’s programme features a new route from Wivenho...

https://thebikeshow.net/21-may-2007-poetry-on-a-country-ride-with-martin-newell/

Returning for the summer season, The Bike Show turns to the trials of US cycling star Floyd Landis, whose sensational victory in the 2006 Tour de France was thrown into doubt after he failed a te...

https://thebikeshow.net/resonance-fm-the-bike-show-14052007-road-peace-floyd-landis/

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/

We test out Andy Cox’s prototype singing bicycle, for use in the performance of Godfried Willem Raes’s Second Symphony. Down the line from San Francisco, Jon Winston fills us in on Bay Area c...

https://thebikeshow.net/12-march-2007-the-word-from-san-francisco-and-a-singing-bicycle-prototype/

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/

Looking ahead to the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival, which has plans for screenings in 15 countries including a third year in London. In the studio is the BFF’s London coordinator Roxy Erickson. We...

https://thebikeshow.net/26-february-2007-calling-all-bicycle-filmmakers/

Another thrilling dip into the world of experimental music involving bicycles. With guest in the studio Andy Cox, guitarist in The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals and Cribabi, who is known to play the...

https://thebikeshow.net/more-experimental-bicycle-music/

In this week’s show we hear from Patrick Field about how to survive the grueling Paris-Brest-Paris: by riding a recumbent. Also a look at the blossoming world of bicycle radio and podcasting an...

https://thebikeshow.net/5-february-2007-cyclosportives-bicycle-podcasting-and-budapest/

First run in 1891 as a race designed to demonstrate the practicality of the bicycle, Paris Brest Paris has since become a four yearly event that attracts long distance cyclists from around the wo...

https://thebikeshow.net/29-january-2007-going-the-distance-and-the-physics-of-the-bicycle/

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 the Belgian capital of Brussels, road-testing Cyclocity, a new concept in bicycle hire – sturdy bikes you can pick up and leave in different places around the city that cost just one euro an...

https://thebikeshow.net/4-december-2006-sur-le-pave-in-brussels/

A special edition from the German capital city and well-known haven for cyclists. Riding with Berlin blogger Maisie Hitchcock, we discuss the changing face of Berlin, the legacy of the Cold War a...

https://thebikeshow.net/27-november-2006-berlin-special/

It’s cold outside, so stay at home and turn your bicycle into a musical instrument! Featuring performances by Stephen Schweitzer’s Bikelophone (pictured left), electro-acoustic composer David...

https://thebikeshow.net/20061120-november-2006-experimental-music-and/

This week’s studio guest is none other than David Thurston, my very own dad. A London cyclist since the 1970s when he lost his driving license, he explored China in the early 1980s on a Bickert...

https://thebikeshow.net/13-november-2006-on-a-bickerton-in-china-the-sideways-bike-and-cycling-with-disabilities/

It makes perfect sense to travel to Ediburgh with a bicycle overnight on the sleeper train. Once there, I find out what it’s like on two wheels in Scotland’s capital city – watch those cobb...

https://thebikeshow.net/6-november-2006-edinburgh-by-train-low-carbon-travel/

Jack Thurston and Jo Upton in search of the best bicycle gadget at Cycle 2006, the UK’s biggest cycling exhibition and trade fair. Glow in the dark pedals, GPS tools, bike storage, heart rate m...

https://thebikeshow.net/23-october-2006-at-cycle-2006-eddy-merckx-and-a-hunt-for-gadgets/

Second half of Kieron Yates’s ride down the Mississippi. He crosses the Mason-Dixon line and enters the realm of the South. On the way he encounters juke joints, folk art, learns about the role...

https://thebikeshow.net/9-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-two/

This week’s show is the story of a long, long ride from Fargo, North Dakota to New Orleans, Louisiana following the Mississippi River. Kieron Yates made this journey over the summer just passed...

https://thebikeshow.net/2-october-2006-mississippi-tales-part-one/

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/

In this week’s show we remember ‘Major’ Marshall Taylor, a world champion cyclist from the 1890s and the first black American sports superstar. Kieron Yates talks about Major Taylor’s lif...

https://thebikeshow.net/24-july-2006-remembering-major-taylor-the-fastest-man-on-the-planet/

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/

This week the Bike Show is in the presence of time trial greatness and (almost) sporting immortality. Michael Hutchinson has just written a book about his recent attempt to enter the pantheon of ...

https://thebikeshow.net/10-july-2006-the-hour-record-with-michael-hutchinson/

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/

In the last of the current season of the Bike Show, Kieron Yates rides around Essex with poet, musician and horticultural assassin Martin Newell, as part of the Spoke N Word project. The post 2...

https://thebikeshow.net/24-april-2006-martin-newell-and-spoke-n-word-in-essex/

As he crosses the Hudson River into Brooklyn, things take a turn for the weird on Jack Thurston’s bicycle adventure in New York City. A visit to the drummers’ circle in Prospect Park, a one m...

https://thebikeshow.net/17-april-2006-cycling-in-new-york-city-part-two/

In the first of two shows devoted to cycling in the NYC, Jack Thurston takes to the streets of Manhattan on a sunny spring Sunday and meets cyclists and assorted Gotham oddballs. Listen to Part T...

https://thebikeshow.net/10-april-2006-cycling-in-new-york-city-part-one/

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/

Second half of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’. Cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young joins Alex Crawford and Jack Thurston in casting a critical ear at another cluch of bicycle-themed songs. Find...

https://thebikeshow.net/13-march-2006-bike-show-jukebox-jury-part-two/

Part one of the Bike Show’s ‘Jukebox Jury’, with cabaret star Sarah-Louise Young and Alex Crawford joining Jack Thurston to listen to a selection of bike-related songs. Which are hits and w...

https://thebikeshow.net/6-march-2006-bike-show-jukebox-jury-part-one/

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/

Featuring the mighty Sheldon Brown on the marvels of classic English 3-speed bicycles. Sheldon Brown is the technical guru at Harris Cyclery and owns one of the world’s greatest collections of ...

https://thebikeshow.net/21-november-2005-show-sheldon-brown/

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/

Kieron Yates joins Southwark Cyclists for the inaugural John Peel Memorial Ride in homage to the great British broadcaster and champion of the underdog. Jack rides with Brendt Barbur, founding di...

https://thebikeshow.net/24-october-2005-show-john-peel-memorial-ride-and-the-bicycle-film-festival/

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/

Radio premier of ‘Onset’, a sound art work by Olias Nil in which he rings around 500 bicycle bells, one by one, over three days on the streets of Amsterdam. MP3 The post (Archive) 11 April ...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-11-april-2005-show-onset/

Spotlight on a classic 1965 film about the Tour De France “Pour Un Maillot Jaune” (dir. Claude Lelouch). Guest in the studio is William Greswell. MP3 The post 21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Ma...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-21-march-2005-show-pour-un-maillot-jaune/

Special feature on the G8 Bike Ride (mass protest ride from London to the G8 Summit in Scotland) with organisers Tim and Tabitha. Featuring music from David Cronenberg’s Wife and Lower Depths. ...

https://thebikeshow.net/25-april-2005-show-g8-protest-bike-ride/

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 is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills. MP3 The post (Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry f...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-17-january-2005-david-ferry/

Christmas Day ride across the south downs of East Sussex, including a climb up Ditchling Beacon with writer and film-maker Nicky Hamlyn. Followed by hot bath. MP3 The post (Archive) 3 January 2...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-3-january-2005-show-christmas-day-on-the-south-downs/

Featuring the Rinky-Dink Bicycle Powered Sound System, comedy from George Lopez and bicycle advice from Tall Jurgen of the London Bicycle Repair Shop in Waterloo. MP3 The post 20 December 2004 ...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-20-december-2004-show/

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/

A ride on the Kent-Sussex border with my old school friend, writer and wilderness guru Daniel Start. We evoke the Edwardian spirit of genteel cycle touring and our ride takes in a ruined castle, ...

https://thebikeshow.net/22-august-2005-show-a-countryside-trip/

As we enter the final week of Le Tour De France 2005, I am joined in the studio by Bike Show regular William Greswell. Interviews with Guy Andrews, editor of Road Cycling UK and Rouleur magazine....

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-18-july-2005-le-tour-de-france/

This week’s show features an interview with David Herlihy, author of ‘Bicycle‘ the recently published definitive history of the bicycle (Yale University Press). Kieron Yates reports on the ...

https://thebikeshow.net/8-august-2005-show-history-of-the-bicycle-london-edinburgh-london-audax-ride/

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/

Discussing German electro-pop pioneers Kraftwerk and their love of the bicycle. With Kraftwerk aficionados Maisie Hitchcock and Chris Bloor. MP3 format Read Jack Thurston’s feature on Kraftwerk...

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

Special on-location feature on the 2005 Paris-Roubaix classic race (L’Enfer du Nord) with William Greswell. Look ahead to this month’s 11th birthday of London’s Critical Mass bike ride. Tra...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-18-april-2005-paris-roubaix-classic/

In the studio with Tom Kevill-Davies, aka The Hungry Cyclist. We talk about his imminent bike ride around the American continent. Track list: Cycling Is Fun – Shonen Knife Ice Cream Man – Les...

https://thebikeshow.net/archive-2-may-2005-the-hungry-cyclist/

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/

In the studio is Johnny Green, former road manager of the Clash, talking about his other passion in life, Le Tour De France. In his new book ‘Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More’, Green give...

https://thebikeshow.net/25-july-show-johnny-green/

There was an special, extended 90 minute Bike Show broadcast on Resonance FM on Monday 13th June from 12 noon to 1.30pm. The show features footage from Sunday’s Bike Fest in Trafalgar Square, p...

https://thebikeshow.net/13-june-bike-week-special/

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/