The Bike Show on Resonance 104.4fm

5 February 2007: Cyclosportives, bicycle podcasting and Budapest

2007-02-06T14:23:00.000Z

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 and a look ahead to the best in cyclosportives in 2007.

Links:

Bikescape podcast from San Francisco.

Rapha's 'Culture Clash' Roller Race at Shoreditch Town Hall - 10 February 2007

Dartmoor Classic Cyclosportive
- 13 May 2007

Tour de France Mega-Sportive - 1 July 2007

L'Eroica Cyclosportive - 7 October 2007 (pictured above)

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29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle

2007-02-02T19:17:00.000Z

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 world. This year is a Paris Brest Paris year and Kieron Yates - this week standing in for Jack Thurston - talks to Richard Phipps of Audax UK – the British long distance cycling association – about preparing for the ride and what to expect should he make it to Paris.

Also on today's show Kieron tries to discover just how it is that we stay upright on our bikes as we pootle off down the road. Physicist, Dr Helen Czerski, provides the answers, describes the 'Einstein flip', and confirms the efficiency of the bicycle. Helen is a member of the NOISE network of scientists.

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Thanks!!

2007-01-31T18:38:00.000Z

Thanks to all those Bike Show listeners who've donated to the Save Resonance fund. The ten free copies of Rouleur Magazine have now all been claimed by John Paul, Denis, Henning, Wesley, Julian, Marc, Mark, Grant, Matt, Jesse and Tom. Copies will be on their way as soon as we have confirmed your postal addresses.

But we still need your donations, so even if there's not a lovely copy of Rouleur up for grabs, all donations are very much appreciated.

Jack

22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling

2007-01-23T11:19:00.000Z

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 to London, the 15th Dunwich Dynamo and other group rides organized by Southwark Cyclists and ask whether London cycling will continue to boom. We also preview the Rapha Roller Race on 10 February with Therese Bjorn.

The first ten Bike Show listeners to donate to Resonance fm's survival fund will receive a free copy of the current edition of Rouleur magazine - newstand price £9 ($18). You can donate via Paypal or Credit Card and make sure to leave a note saying that you'd like a copy of Rouleur and give your postal address.

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15 January 2007: Women bike messengers and a ride through a very long tunnel

2007-01-16T20:07:00.000Z

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 a handful of London's women bike messengers are to be believed. For details on the upcoming Roller Races, look here.

We also have Hugo Gladstone riding with the Stourbridge Bicycle Users Group on a 'suburban secrets' adventure that takes in the 2.3 km Netherton canal tunnel. Wooohh!! Echoooohh!!

And if you want to help the Bike Show and all Resonance fm's unique broadcasting stay on the air.... don't delay!

You can donate to our emergency fund quickly and painlessly here. Remember, all the programme-makers and engineers on Resonance are unpaid. We need to raise £60,000 now to pay for basic things like renting our studio (a damp and airless cave) and powering our antenna (a rusty coathanger tied to the top of a hospital). It's not rocket science but without donations from listeners, it will all come to an end very soon.

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8 January 2007 - Doorstep Adventures with Patrick Field (part two)

2007-01-09T13:41:00.000Z

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 Isle of Dogs and from there onwards to old pumping station in Wapping converted into a arts space and cafe.

Along the way we discuss the revolutionary era of the bicycle, humanity and the march of progress and the challenges of global and local environmental imperatives. Heavy stuff, which might explain why Patrick suffers the Bike Show's first ever live on air puncture.

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The Bike Show's Kieron Yates on BBC Radio 4's Excess Baggage

2007-01-06T01:59:00.000Z

Today's Excess Baggage on BBC Radio 4 features reportage by Kieron Yates, the Bike Show's very own intrepid stateside adventurer and long distance audax freak.

His epic ride down the Mississippi from North Dakota all the way to New Orleans caught the eye of the BBC's Saturday morning travel show (or should that be ear?).

Click here to listen again to Excess Baggage. Fortunately today's episode is presented by the charming John McCarthy and not the unbearably irritating regular host Sandi Toksvig.

If you're interested in hearing the full story of Kieron's fixed wheel American adventure as broadcast a few months ago on The Bike Show, here are the links:

Part one

Part two

18 December 2006: Doorstep adventures with Patrick Field (Part one)

2006-12-19T02:01:00.000Z

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. We take in ancient trading routes, cross the River Lea and pass through land that will be home to the London Olympics in 2012. We discuss the ethos of cycling as travel and Patrick's hopes for returning to an age of pre-industrial idleness... (part two follows next week).

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11 December 2006 - The Christmas edition

2006-12-15T00:36:00.000Z

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 Velorution and Therese gives a thumbs up to Pac Designs messenger bags.

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4 December 2006: Sur le pavé in Brussels

2006-12-04T18:33:00.000Z

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 hour. Jack Thurston and William Greswell are soon distracted by EU monumentalist architecture, horse meat steaks and a winter wonderland in the Grand Place.

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27 November 2006: Berlin special

2006-11-27T22:49:00.000Z

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 and the achingly hip Berlin music scene, all the while finding out what a great place this is to ride a bike.

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20 November 2006: experimental music and the bicycle

2006-11-20T22:56:00.000Z

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 Berezan and the Tea and Toast Band.

And we set a new challenge for London's musical cyclists in 2007, the year that the Tour de France comes to our city... A performance of Godfried-Willem Raes's Second Symphony for 'Singing Bicycles'.

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13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities

2006-11-14T18:58:00.000Z

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 Bickerton folder and is now discovering that with Parkinson's Disease, cycling is more fun than walking.

Also featuring an interview with Irish nutty professor Michael Killian, inventor of the revolutionary Sideways Bike (pictured) with independent front and rear steering, news of Sheldon Brown's struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and an report by Alex Murray on a high end off-road wheelchair.

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Problems over the last few weeks...

2006-11-07T17:14:00.000Z

Just a quick post to say that contrary to rumours, the Bike Show is not going fortnightly. The observant among you will have noticed that recent service has been interrupted, and this due to:

1. A near-catastrophic flood at the Resonance fm studio which pulled
everthing off the air for a few days (hence no new show on 16 October)

2. Me being stuck on a train coming back from north Wales last week,
and thereby missing the show.

I hope you'll agree that these events are both very much in keeping
with the overall ambiance of the Bike Show, but I'll do my best to
ensure they're not repeated (as some of old shows have had to be to fill the gaps!)

Jack

6 November 2006: Edinburgh by train, low carbon travel

2006-11-07T00:27:00.000Z

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 cobblestones! Also chatting with Ed Gillespie, who's about to embark on a round-the-world odyssey of slow travel / low carbon travel: by train, camel and container ship.

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23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 - Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets

2006-10-24T22:41:00.000+01:00

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 monitors and lights galore.

We are also granted an exclusive audience with the legendary champion of all cycling champions, Eddy Merckx. Eddy shares his views on cycling in Britain, Floyd Landis's doping disgrace and the latest developments at his boutique framebuilding company.

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9 October 2006 - Mississippi Tales (part two)

2006-10-09T21:47:00.000+01:00

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 of bicycles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and has an fascinating encounter with The Voice.

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2 October 2006 - Mississippi Tales (part one)

2006-10-03T21:33:00.000+01:00

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, on a fixed wheel bike with just a saddlebag for all his worldly possessions. Safely back home, he joins me in in conversation and we play music and interviews from along the way. The journey took in frozen Mormons, naked yoga, Klan-survivors, sweat and heat, roadkill, cheap motels and plenty of down home blues. Second half next Monday the 9th October.

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Free tickets to the Cycle Show 2006

2006-10-03T00:04:00.000+01:00

Thanks to the lovely promotions people at the Cycle Show 2006, we're pleased to be giving away 5 free tickets to the UK's biggest cycle trade fair, on this weekend 6-8 October at the ExCel Centre in Docklands. Plenty of Bike Show friends will be there, including Rapha and Condor who will be putting on a typically stylish stand. Plus lots of cycling groups such as the excellent CTC, who have just appointed Jon Snow as their new President, in place of Phil Liggett, who stands down after 10 years. Rumour has it that the mighty Eddy Merckx will be putting in an appearance on Saturday. Chapeaux!

Just send an email to bikshow@gmail.com saying which day you want to go. First come, first served.

Jack

31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory

2006-08-01T13:12:00.000+01:00

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 Ritchie, who started making them in his flat more than 25 years ago. They are still made in west London - in fact the only form of transportation still manufactured in the capital. Matt Tempest is awed by the brazing, bending and bashing that goes into a Brompton. Plus the demystification of wheelbuilding with Ian McCormick.

The Bike Show will be back with the falling of autumn leaves.

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24 July 2006: Remembering Major Taylor - the fastest man on the planet

2006-07-24T17:07:00.000+01:00

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 life with Lynne Tolman of the Major Taylor Association. We also ride the 2006 Etape Du Tour with Alex Murray.

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17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub

2006-07-17T14:49:00.000+01:00

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 by Therese Bjorn, a former European Bicycle Messenger Champion and Matt Seaton, cycling correspondent at The Guardian newspaper. We watch the big Pyrenean stage of this year's Tour, which features the legendary Col Du Tormalet. Insighful commentary is interspersed with food, drinks and cheery French chanson on the 45s.

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10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson

2006-07-11T23:08:00.000+01:00

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 cycling legend by breaking the record for how far you can ride in an hour. The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way is both an informative history of the hour record itself and an entertaining, amusing and, at times, heartrending account of another chapter in the annals of epic British sporting failure.

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3 July 2006: Creativity, design and the bicycle

2006-07-07T16:42:00.000+01:00

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 display. We ride down through the park via the Serpentine Gallery to her studio in Fulham and then south over Wandsworth Bridge and via Wandsworth Prison to Tooting to see one of her cowbenches - lifesize cow-shaped benches upholstered in a single cowhide - and to talk about her current project involving a sculpture of a tricycle in Shanghai. We talk about design, cycling, creativity and much more along the way.

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26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling

2006-06-27T11:27:00.000+01:00

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 Tour. Plus Dominic Gabellini on the new Rapha-Condor cycle racing team and a 43 inch bunnyhop by Rich Johnson, Britain's leading trick/stunt rider.

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The Bike Show is 2: party with us!

2006-06-21T17:17:00.000+01:00

To celebrate 2 years (almost) of the Bike Show on Resonance FM, we'll be having a party on 30 June, just after Critical Mass, and on the eve of this year's Tour De France. What better excuse to raise a glass to the transcendental pleasures of the bicycle?!

DJ Jean-Marie (Continental Drift), DJ Helen Ladybody and DJ JoeBike will be spinning the sounds, there'll be classic bike films on the screen, a free prize draw and pub prices on the liquor.

8pm-1am, upstairs at the Walrus Social, corner of Westminster Bridge Road and Lower Marsh, in the heart of London's fabulous Waterloo.
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19 June 2006: It's Bike Week!

2006-06-20T02:49:00.000+01:00

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 of the Reinventing The Bike Shed exhibition, I speak with organisers Adam Thorpe of Bikeoff and Stephanie Laslett of Feilden Clegg Bradley and Associates about how the exhibition came about and what's on show.

The show also spotlights the Christiania Bike from Denmark, in conversation with its creators Lars Engstrom and Annie Lerche and Andrea Casalotti of Velorution, the bike shop on a mission to bring these fantastic multipurpose workhorse tricycles to the streets of London.

And a quick heads-up for the 'Midsummer Madness' summer solstice bike ride, on the night of Tuesday 20st June, through the night up to the top of Primrose Hill for the sunrise and down to the Globe Theatre for breakfast on Wednesday morning. All with the redoubtable Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists.

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12 June 2006: A ride in the Royal Parks

2006-06-20T00:59:00.000+01:00

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 the lungs of the capital. But they have remarkably few paths where cycling is allowed.

Mark Camley has been Chief Executive of the Royal Parks Agency for just over a year and is convinced more can be done to make the Royal Parks work for cyclists. I talk with Mark about the issues he's facing in making this happen, and then go for a ride around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens with Ruth Holmes, a landscape management officer at the Royal Parks with special responsibility for cycling.

Mark welcomes all comments and suggestions from park users, and says he reads all his email personally:

mcamley@royalparks.gsi.gov.uk

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Come and make bicycle radio!

2006-05-18T17:08:00.000+01:00

Thanks to everyone who's visited the blog, listened to the shows and posted comments. Your interest and feedback is always appreciated.

And should you wish to take the step from being a Bike Show listener to a Bike Show programme-maker, the door is wide open. We'll be back on air from 12 June!

Resonance FM (the award-winning London radio station that broadcasts the show) is a non-profit station, and I am - like every single other Resonance programme-maker - entirely unpaid for my work. The Bike Show is just something I manage to fit in around other, non-bicycle, non-radio work. ...which might explain why it's a bit rough around the edges.

So if you've got a passion for the bicycle and like the idea of making radio, then drop me a line. If you're in the London area I can lend any gear you might need and advise on technique - even if you've never touched a microphone before. New perspectives and different personalities can only enrich the mix and several listeners have already made fantastic features for the show.

So go on...you know you want to.

Chapeaux!!

Dunwich Dynamo 2006 - Route Map!

2006-05-16T19:24:00.000+01:00

The ultimate night ride is back for its 14th year on Saturday 8 July 2006, from 9pm to dawn on the Sunday morning.

The 120 mile route is from London Fields to Dunwich Beach, Suffolk. I have put the route online via the very cool Gmap-Pedometer site here (based on Patrick Field's notes).

For more info on the Dunwich Dynamo see the FAQ by Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists and a nice account of the 2005 Dynamo at rapha.cc.

The Bike Show featured the 2004 Dynamo, MP3 download or listen in Real Audio.

24 April 2006 - Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex

2006-04-24T09:44:00.000+01:00

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.

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17 April 2006: Cycling in New York City (part two)

2006-04-18T09:54:00.000+01:00

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 man bicycle soul machine and sociological anaysis of 'hipsters' in Williamsburg.

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10 April 2006: Cycling in New York City (part one)

2006-04-11T04:50:00.000+01:00

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.

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3 April 2006: Standing up for Cycling; Tall Bikes

2006-04-04T10:30:00.000+01:00

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 around Britain on tall bikes.

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27 March 2006: Bicycle recycling

2006-03-30T13:40:00.000+01:00

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 version of the show recorded at the Scooterworks cafe in Waterloo. Also features the Re-cycle project that takes old bikes to Africa. Presented by Kieron Yates and Jack Thurston.

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20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session

2006-03-28T01:02:00.000+01:00

This week's show features a long-awaited live session by London's best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys.

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13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part two

2006-03-16T16:25:00.000Z

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 out which come out top and which are the howlers...

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6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury - part one

2006-03-16T15:41:00.000Z

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 which are misses?

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27 February 2006 - Bicycles on trains

2006-03-01T18:57:00.000Z

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 campaign to improve cycle-rail integration. We also catch up with Tom Kevill-Davies aka The Hungry Cyclist on his epic ride around the Americas in search of the perfect meal.

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Bike Show featured in London Cyclist magazine

2006-02-22T15:48:00.000Z

After winning the Best Media category of the 2005 London Cycling Awards, the Bike Show's Jack Thurston was featured in the 'My Bike and I' column of London Cyclist, the magazine of the London Cycling Campaign.

You can read it here.

Deadley Treadleys in live Bike Show session: 20 March 2006

2006-02-22T15:34:00.000Z

Stand back and hold tight! London's best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys, will be doing a a live session on the show on Monday 20 March 2006 at 6.30pm. Red lights will be banned from the studio for the duration and we're arranging a nice tail wind too...

20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media

2006-02-21T23:49:00.000Z

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 changing at all? Featuring comment from Buffalo Bill who runs the Moving Target zine and Matt Seaton who writes about cycling in The Guardian newspaper.

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13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007!

2006-02-17T18:28:00.000Z

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 press conference by London Mayor Ken Livingstone.

Also in the show is Kieron Yates's impressionistic and thoughtful account of a winter brevet ride over the hills of the Chilterns in southern England.

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Bike Show taking a break...(for a few weeks)

2006-01-23T01:13:00.000Z

Resonance fm likes to keep its schedules fresh and so the Bike Show is taking a break for a few weeks, and should be returning to the airwaves mid-February 2006.

Look out for the new season which will feature:

- A London poetry ride
- Alfred Jarry as performed by Peter Blegvad
- Brevet dreams
- Bikes on trains

...and much more besides.

19 December 2005 - Kids on bikes?

2005-12-24T23:52:00.000Z

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 asking some local children and parents.

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5 December 2005 Show - Police on bikes!!

2005-12-09T19:39:00.000Z

This week we look at the subject of police and paramedics on bikes. Kieron Yates interviews Segeant Robert Bliss of the City of London police's cycle team. And a big shout to Bike Show listeners in Halifax, Nova Scotia!

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28 November 2005: Surviving the winter on two wheels

2005-11-29T19:54:00.000Z

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 and Simon Mottram from Rapha. We also discuss the distressing news of yet another killing of a London cyclist by a left-turning heavy goods vehicle and what this means in terms of road safety policy.

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21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown

2005-11-24T14:31:00.000Z

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 weird and wonderful bikes, including a bizarre fixed gear tandem, a bike that allows its rider to choose between drop and straight handlebars whilst riding and a roadster dating from 1916. Also in the show is Astrid Van Herpen of Pro Velo in Brussels talking about cycling in the Belgian capital.

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The Bike Show wins award!

2005-11-07T18:03:00.000Z

The Bike Show has won the award for 'Best Media Initiative' at the London Cycling Campaign's annual awards.

Emily Thornberry, MP for Islington South and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, presented the award to Jack Thurston and Kieron Yates at the London Cycling Campaign’s AGM on Wednesday 2 November.

The Bike Show was described as follows: 'The UK’s only radio show devoted to the miracle of the bicycle and the transcendental pleasures of cycling'. One devoted listener writes: 'The Bike show is a very welcome addition to London’s cycle culture that has a loyal following and does its own quirky bit to get people on bikes'.

Hooray! Thanks to the LCC and to everyone who nominated us!

The Bike Show crosses the North Atlantic

2005-11-03T16:02:00.000Z

In an exciting development, the Bike Show has been syndicated by CKDU in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and will be broadcast in glorious FM across the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

Currently scheduled in the sought-after 'graveyard' slot of Tuesdays at 4.30am, sandwiched between 'Radio Goethe' and 'The Lost Discs Radio Show', the Bike Show is bound to find equal appeal among the late night toilers at Dalhousie University, the early morning go-getters of Halifax and the impressive population of wood turtles, muskrat, mink, and beaver native to the floodplains of the Musquodoboit River.

Explaining the thinking behind her inspired move, CKDU Program Manager, Melissa Buote, told the Bike Show, "We’re really happy to include your voice, ideas and creativity on our station. [It will] give our late night programming a diverse and different feel from the programming we offer from our live, local programmers."

Chapeaux! (as they probably say in French-speaking Canada)

Critical Mass: For London, it's time to move on

2005-11-01T16:47:00.000Z

Like many hundreds of London cyclists I went along to critical mass last Friday night. I’d heard about the possible crackdown by the Metropolitan Police under the Government’s new public order legislation and I wanted to express my right to ride. I’ve been riding in Critical Mass rides in London, Oxford and San Francisco for more than a decade and I’ve usually enjoyed the fun and friendship and the amazing feeling of riding along the city streets in large numbers, safely, showing how a bicycle can solve the problems of congestion.

Last Friday’s ride attracted more than 1000 people. It was an impressive show of solidarity, and to give them their due, the Police acted in an overwhelmingly friendly and cooperative way. But by the time the ride had reached Parliament Square and a group of people decided to brandish their bikes aloft and bring the ride to a complete standstill, I had decided enough was enough.

I’m glad I didn’t stay with the ride as it went back towards the West End but I’ve heard from others that people blocked Oxford Street for almost an hour, held up buses and generally caused disruption to everyone. Spare a though for all those shopworkers on minimum wage trying to get home on a dark Friday night. What kind of a message does that send out to people about cycling and cyclists?

Friday’s ride marked a turning point for me. London’s Critical Mass has always quietly tolerated those people who tried to hijack it for their own causes, whether they’re against Shell, McDonalds or the Iraq War. But now it seems that Critical Mass has inverted its own founding creed of being a bike ride not a protest. It is abundantly clear that it is now a protest, not a bike ride. And in doing so, it has become a convenient vehicle for the angry mob who like to be anti-everything.

Over the years Critical Mass has undoubtedly raised the profile of cycling and contributed in its own way to the massive growth of cycling in the capital. Riding a bike is now a perfectly ordinary way of getting around town, and Governments are broadly supportive, although it is always possible for them to do better. I ride my bike in London and see so many other riders around me that it feels like a Critical Mass every day.

A conversation I overheard on Friday sums it up perfectly. It was a bike messenger complaining, in very good humour, that he rode 100 miles a day, every day, and hadn’t had a mechanical failure for months. But he’d come on Critical Mass for the first time in years and been rear-ended by another rider, buckling his back wheel.

Cycling in London has moved on and Critical Mass now does more harm than good. But this doesn’t mean giving up on group riding, far from it. Any day of the month is a good day to get together with bunch of friends or join up with a local group like Southwark Cyclists for one of their regular Thursday night rides. 6.30pm on the South Side of London Bridge. I’ll see you there.

31 October 2005 Show: Roller-racing, Ghostcycle and Critical Mass London

2005-11-01T16:38:00.000Z

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 explain their Ghostcycle project to mark and map traffic collisions involving bicycles. Jack and Rakan court controversy by saying enough is enough to London Critical Mass, which attracted more than 1000 riders for the Halloween ride.

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The long wait is over...the Bike Show in iTunes

2005-10-28T15:24:00.000+01:00

After interminable waiting and technical fiddling, the Bike Show is now listed in the iTunes podcast directory.

The iTunes ID number is 85585749.

And the direct link is here.

A big thank you goes to Joshua Jeremiah who rode in on a big white horse and saved the day when all was darkness and despondency.

24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival

2005-10-27T13:00:00.000+01:00

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 director of the Bicycle Film Festival on the day after the festival took London by storm.

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17 October 2005 Show: 'Deviant' cyclists and the Pushbike Architecture Treasure Hunt

2005-10-18T18:48:00.000+01:00

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 his reaction. We also preview the Pushbike Architecture Treasure Hunt by speaking with its organisers Miranda and Alex.

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Bike Show featured in City Cycling Magazine

2005-10-10T10:49:00.000+01:00

The Bike Show is featured in City Cycling, a new online cycling magazine edited by Anthony Robson. Issue 4 also has an article on how to build your own recumbent for less than €500 plus some photos of ridiculously dangerous-looking mountain bike aerial action.

(Archive) 11 April 2005 Show: Onset

2005-10-07T19:23:00.000+01:00

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.

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(Archive) 21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Maillot Jaune

2005-10-07T19:22:00.000+01:00

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.

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25 April 2005 Show: G8 Protest Bike Ride

2005-10-07T19:20:00.000+01:00

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.

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(Archive) 31 January 2005: Rose Ades

2005-10-07T19:18:00.000+01:00

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

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(Archive) 28 March 2005 Show: Navindh Baburam

2005-10-07T19:16:00.000+01:00

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.

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(Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry

2005-10-07T19:10:00.000+01:00

Guest is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills.

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(Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs

2005-10-07T19:06:00.000+01:00

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.

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(Archive) 20 December 2004 Show

2005-10-07T19:01:00.000+01:00

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.

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(Archive) 6 December 2004 Show: London cycling

2005-10-07T18:48:00.000+01:00

Guest in the studio is Simon Brammer, Director of the London Cycle Campaign. James Foster memorial ride. Waterloo Bridge roundabout.

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(Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo

2005-09-21T17:43:00.000+01:00

Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon.

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15 August 2005 Show

2005-09-20T18:54:00.000+01:00

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 sustainable transportation organisation.

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22 August 2005 Show - a countryside trip

2005-09-05T20:37:00.000+01:00

A ride on the Kent-Sussex border with my old school friend, writer and wilderness guru Daniel Start. We evoke the Edwardian spirit of genteel cycle touring and our ride takes in a ruined castle, ancient woodland, a dangerous cliff excursion, an encounter with a barn owl and a visit to a man buried in a pyramid.

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(Archive) 18 July 2005: Le Tour De France

2005-08-13T21:27:00.000+01:00

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. Also talking with Kent Benson who is watching roadside in the Alps. Kent runs If Hannibal Had, organising cycling holidays in the Italian Alps.

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8 August 2005 Show: History of the bicycle; London-Edinburgh-London audax ride

2005-08-13T20:55:00.000+01:00

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 London-Edinburgh-London audax/endurance ride.

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(Archive) 16 May Show: Riding with Buffalo Bill

2005-08-11T15:39:00.000+01:00

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 bicycle messengers (also known as couriers) and has run a prominent campaign to reduce the risks to cyclists posed by Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs). Bill and I visit three of the seven sites where London bicycle messengers have been killed while at work.

In the studio are Jesse and Regan from the World Naked Bike Ride. The London ride will be on 11 June 2005, 3pm at Hyde Park Corner. The organisers have received approval from the Metropolitan Police so no arrests will be made for nudity. They hope this will result in an even better turnout than the 60+ of 2004. The idea is to go 'as bare as you dare'.

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Music:

Cars - The Desperate Bicycles
I Lost The Feeling - The Bellrays
Stock Exchange - Miss Kittin featuring The Hacker
Did You Hear What They Said? - Gil Scott Heron
Banana Split - Lio

(Archive) 4 April 2005 - Rosie Walford

2005-08-11T15:17:00.000+01:00

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 state. We take a ride around Islington and the City of London.

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Track List:

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
First Love Never Dies - The Cascades
Natural Harmony - The Byrds (Notorious Byrd Brothers LP)
Banana Splits Theme (Tra La La) - The Banana Splits
Sights Unseen - Soledad Brothers

(Archive) 24 January 2005 - Jeremy Deller

2005-08-08T10:41:00.000+01:00

Riding with Jeremy Deller, London-based artist and recent winner of the Turner Prize, who dedicated his win to 'all London cyclists'.

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Track list:

Voodoo Ray - Williams Fairey Brass Band
It's Turned Out Nice Again - George Formby
Our Paths Will Cross Again - Jeremy Deller, feat. William Whitmore and Jennie Olsen
Hanged I Shall Be - Albion Country Band
This Land Is My Land - Woody Guthrie

(Archive) 27 December 2004 - Mark Ellen

2005-08-06T01:21:00.000+01:00

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 college band Ugly Rumours.

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The archive is provided for Podcast subscribers to the Bike Show.

Kraftwerk and Cycling

2005-08-05T17:09:00.000+01:00

Following the Bike Show's January 2005 feature on Kraftwerk and bicycling, I was invited to write an article for a new road racing magazine called Rouleur, looking deeper into the obsession that the German godfathers of technopop have for cycling.

Rouleur is published by those fabulous people at Rapha and is now out - £9 - featuring beautiful photography as well as great articles by the likes of Graeme Fife and Matt Seaton.

The Bike Show Kraftwerk special is available in MP3 format and Real Audio.

Below is an extract from my feature-length Kraftwerk article in Rouleur:

Kraftwerk and the Ultimate Man-Machine

Mensch / Natur / Technik. In three words are distilled the ethos of one of the most innovative and influential pop groups of all time. Kraftwerk’s pursuit of harmony between man, nature and technology also explains a passion for cycling that has at times bordered on an obsession. Described variously as the godfathers of techno and industrial music, ‘the Beach Boys from Düsseldorf’ and the inventors of electro pop, it is hard to find a band more revered (and sampled) by their peers, or more worshipped by their fans.

Famous for shunning the media spotlight and turning down invitations to collaborate with names as big as Michael Jackson, David Bowie and The Smiths it is strange to hear Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter describe with star-struck awe how he and fellow founder-member Florian Schneider rode in a Tour De France race car with French cycling legend Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle during the Alpe D’Huez stage in 2003 Tour De France. But it would not surprise any Kraftwerk fan who blames cycling for the dramatic decline in recorded output since their 1983 Tour De France single. The suspicion that Hütter and Schneider had abandoned their banks of electronic recording equipment to ride over the high mountain passes of the Alps and Dolomites is given further credence by former sideman Karl Bartos who said that the excessive cycling contributed in part to his decision to quit the band.

Kraftwerk means ‘power station’ in German, and hailing from the industrial heartland of the Rhur valley, Hütter and Schneider were fascinated by industry and technology both as a way of making music and as a broader cultural aesthetic. Products of Germany’s post-war ‘fatherless generation’, both had witnessed how industrial progress had enabled Germany to rebuild and redeem itself after the moral and material ruin of the Nazi era. They were disappointed at how most continental European pop groups rarely strayed from aping their American and British counterparts and one of Kraftwerk’s early objectives was to develop an uncompromisingly modern style that was at the same time distinctively German.

There is a some irony that Kraftwerk’s first international commercial success came with Autobahn (1974) a concept album about driving a Volkswagen Beetle on the German motorway network – two technological innovations widely associated with the Third Reich (although in the case of the Autobahn, the connection is largely erroneous). This was an unlikely radio and hit, the single being an edited version of the album’s 23-minute long title track.

The four albums that followed mined a rich seam of similar themes in which delight in modernity is balanced by nostalgia for bygone times. It is difficult to find another group whose music so closely relates to overtly stated concepts: radio broadcasting and nuclear power (Radio-Activity, 1975) train travel and European integration (Trans Europe Express, 1977) robots and mannequins (The Man Machine, 1978) and computers, surveillance and international finance (Computer World, 1981). It is sometimes unclear whether Kraftwerk’s vision is portraying technology at the service of mankind or machines taking over at the expense of humanity.

The exhausting process of recording the Computer World album led the band to discuss the issue of physical exercise and it was not long after that Hütter and Schneider took up cycling. The pair encouraged the other members of the wider Kraftwerk clan to take to the roads and even formed their own cycling club, Radsportgruppe Schneider. Their all-black cycling strips matched the black coffee that sustained night-long sessions in the studio. By all accounts they were no slouches in the saddle, often completing 200 km rides and riding the classic climbs of the Tour de France and the Giro D’Italia. Of all the band members it was Hütter who took the sport most seriously, both as a rider and a spectator, making special trips to follow of the Classic races like the Paris-Roubaix.

The creative life of the band revolved around Kling Klang, the custom-built studio they describe as their ‘electric toyroom’ and ‘laboratory’. Yet Hütter explains how working in a ‘very synthetic world’ made them want to escape into ‘the fresh air, sun and wind’. Cycling helps to ‘free the mind’. Maxime Schmitt, a long-time Kraftwerk friend and collaborator told Pascal Bussy, author of the unofficial but authoritative biography Kraftwerk: Man, Machine, Music (SAF Publishing, 2001) that “the bicycle was a perfect way of getting a lot of fresh air. We noticed that it was an anti-stress sport because it concentrated totally on the bicycle. When you ride a bicycle, you don’t think about the new album, about how we are going to launch it. We realised that during three or four hours on the bicycle, we were discussing things like, ‘Oh, you have new brakes’, ‘Oh, where did you get your handlebars?’, ‘Is the saddle well adjusted?’, or ‘What about the pedals?’, things that were only connected with cycling.”

It was not long before they turned to making a record about riding a bike. Describing the Tour De France EP Hütter explained that “the bicycle is already a musical instrument on its own. The noise of the bicycle chain, the pedal and gear mechanism, for example, the breathing of the cyclist, we have incorporated all this in the Kraftwerk sound, including injecting the natural sounds into the computers in the studio.” The crisp, clean sound that came to characterise the Kraftwerk sound in the digital era of the 1990s also has a resonance in the sound of the bicycle (or rather the lack of it): “When your bike functions best, you don’t hear it – it’s silent, there’s no cracking, just shhhh – you’re gliding. It’s the same when you’re in good shape and your in form and you’re riding your bike, you hear nothing – maybe just a little bit of breath.”

(Archive) 18 April 2005 - Paris-Roubaix Classic

2005-08-04T12:47:00.000+01:00

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.

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Track list:

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
Coeur Vagabond - unknown accordionist
Triplets of Belleville - The Triplets of Belleville
Rockin' Bicycle - Fats Domino

(Archive) 2 May 2005 - The Hungry Cyclist

2005-08-04T12:41:00.000+01:00

In the studio with Tom Kevill-Davies, aka The Hungry Cyclist. We talk about his imminent bike ride around the American continent.

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Track list:

Cycling Is Fun - Shonen Knife
Ice Cream Man - Leslie Uggams
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Woodie Guthrie
Rueda De Fuego - Texas Tornados
No Hay Manteca - Celia Cruz
Gopher Mambo - Yma Sumac
Vuelvo Al Sur - Gotan Project

1 August 2005 - Cycling after the London bomb attacks

2005-08-02T09:06:00.000+01:00

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 Bike Show, Lucy Nandris from Cycle Training UK and Buzz from Tower Hamlets Wheelers discuss the implications.

Track list:

The Sound of Silence - Carmen McRae
Pinball City - The Bellrays
Walk a Mile in My Shoes - Holly Golightly

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(Archive) 13 June Show

2005-08-01T11:40:00.000+01:00

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 past 12 months of The Bike Show.

The show was 90 minutes long, so this is a larger-than-usual download. Streaming Real Audio is available here.

9 May Show - London Velodrome at Herne Hill

2005-07-29T19:29:00.000+01:00

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', Velorution weblog, The Mountains to the South by Simon Kunath and Richard Kunath.

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Podcasting resumes....

2005-07-28T15:34:00.000+01:00

Bonjour, mes tres bons rouleurs,

I am in the process of migrating the BIke Show podcast files to a new home in Sunny San Francisco, courtesy of the nice people at Radio 4 All. This may take some time, so please be patient.

In the meantime, point your podcasting software at the following feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBikeShow

Eventually all the shows will be available here.

The podcast is accessible from iTunes 4.9 (menu: Advanced: Subscribe to Podcast), but for some reason the Bike Show does not appear in the iTunes podcast directory. Anyone who can advise me of how I can fix this, please do!

Jack

25 July Show: Johnny Green

2005-07-28T15:30:00.000+01:00

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 gives a vivid and at times hilarious account of life backstage at Le Tour in 2003 and 2004 and finds out just why pro cycling has become the new rock 'n' roll."

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Track Listing:

Handlebars - Desperate Bicycles
All Through the City - Dr Feelgood
Six Days on the Road - Lefty Frizzell
There She Goes - The La's

Podcasting suspended

2005-07-19T23:00:00.000+01:00

Unexpectedly high demand for the Podcast syndication of the Bike Show has caused me to massively overshoot the bandwidth limits on my web server.

As a result I have had to suspend the Podcast syndication facility. However, I will be looking for a way around this. In the meantime, I will continue to provide the Bike Show in streaming Real Audio from the following site (and linked to from the blog):

www.unstablesound.net/bike.html

I will endeavour to put the MP3 files up for manual downloading as well.

Sorry about this, my strong suspicion is that the surge in demand was as a result of the latest version of iTunes being Podcast-compatible.

If anyone has any tips on where I can inexpensively host the Podcast MP3 files and not overrun bandwidth limits, please let me know!

Thanks for your consideration and support.

Jack

13 June - Bike Week Special!!

2005-06-08T00:12:00.000+01:00

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, preview of other Bike Week events and a look back at the past 6 months of the Bike Show.

Guest in the studio is Barry Mason of Southwark Cyclists .

The show is now available online as a Real Audio feed. I have split the MP3 version into three parts, and there are links to these in subsequent posts (one post per file, to work better for the podcasting community).

Chapeau!!

Podcast

2005-05-25T15:06:00.000+01:00

If you want to access the Bike Show via podcasting, simply copy the following link into your podcast application:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBikeShow

To find out more about podcasting, click here.

Some popular podcasts applications:

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23 May Show: Giro D'Italia

2005-05-24T03:46:00.000+01:00

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 Association.

Listen in MP3 or Real Audio.

Music:

Adriatica - Calicanto
Hung Up - Salt
Dwyck - Gangstarr featuring Nice and Smooth
Bartali - Paolo Conte

Will you still love me tomorrow?

2005-05-18T14:20:00.000+01:00

Walking out of the bikeshop with that brand new machine... Gears all silver and shiny. Flawless paintwork sparkling in the sun....

Every bike was once a new bike. Think of this as you consider the fate of the SAD BIKES, as documented in photos on flickr

2005-05-10T19:19:00.000+01:00

A few listeners have emailed me asking for playlists for shows.

In future I will put up a post after each show, with the playlist.

For past shows, here is a complete list:

6 December 2004

A Bicyclette - Bourvil
Back in Black - AC/DC (Back in Black LP)
Rockin' Bicycle - Fats Domino

13 December 2004

Bike - Pink Floyd
Wasn't Born To Follow - The Byrds (Notorious Byrd Brothers LP)
Floe - Philip Glass (Glassworks LP)
Aero Dynamik - Kraftwerk (Tour De France Soundtracks LP)

20 December 2004

Unknown song - Rinky Dink Soundsystem (recorded live at the Glastonbury Festival 2004)
Chase The Devil - Max Romeo
A Bicyclette - Yves Montand
Bicycling With The Devil - Scissor Sisters

27 December 2004

Bike - Pink Floyd
Meu Nome É Zé - Antonio Pinto/Ed Côrtes (City of God soundtrack LP)
Busted Bicycle - Leo Kottke
Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles (White Album LP)
Rockin' Bicycle - Fats Domino

3 January 2005

My White Bicycle - Tomorrow
Tour De France - Kraftwerk
Boogie Woogie on St Louis Blues - Earl Hines

10 January 2005

Autobahn - Kraftwerk (Autobahn LP)
Absug - Krafwerk (Trans Europa Express LP)
Tour De France - Kraftwerk (Tour De France Soundtracks LP)
Aerodynamik - Kraftwerk (Tour De France Soundtracks LP)
Elektro Kardiogram - Kraftwerk (Tour De France Soundtracks LP)

17 January 2005

Get Carter - Roy Budd (Get Carter soundtrack LP)
Every Day Is Like Sunday - Morrisey (Bona Drag LP)
Happy When It Rains - Jesus and Mary Chain
All That Money Wants - The Psychedelic Furs

24 January 2005

Voodoo Ray - Williams Fairey Brass Band
It's Turned Out Nice Again - George Formby
Our Paths Will Cross Again - Jeremy Deller, feat. William Whitmore & Jennie Olsen
Hanged I Shall Be - Albion Country Band (Battle of the Field LP)
This Land Is My Land - Woody Guthrie

31 January 2005

What Is Love? - Deelite
A Bicyclette - Bourvil

21 March 2005

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
Boogie Woogie on St Louis Blues - Earl Hines
Natural Mystic - Horace Andy
Cycling Is Fun - Shonen Knife

28 March 2005

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
Down By The Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
London Traffic - The Jam
Rubber Biscuit - The Chips
A Bicyclette - Bourvil

4 April 2005

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
First Love Never Dies - The Cascades
Natural Harmony - The Byrds (Notorious Byrd Brothers LP)
Banana Splits Theme (Tra La La) - The Banana Splits
Sights Unseen - Soledad Brothers

11 April 2005

Cycling Is Fun - Shonen Knife
Urban Conurban - Scatter
Cars - Desperate Bicycles

18 April 2005

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
Coeur Vagabond - unknown
Triplets of Belleville - The Triplets of Belleville
Rockin' Bicycle - Fats Domino

25 April 2005

Cars - Desperate Bicycles
My Date With Jenna Bush - David Cronenberg's Wife
{unknown} - Lower Depths

2 May 2005

Cycling Is Fun - Shonen Knife
Ice Cream Man - Leslie Uggams
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad - Woodie Guthrie
Rueda De Fuego - Texas Tornados
No Hay Manteca - Celia Cruz
Gopher Mambo - Yma Sumac
Vuelvo Al Sur - Gotan Project

Web listening statistics

2005-05-08T21:06:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the Resonance 104.4 FM Bike Show weblog

2005-02-09T17:59:00.000Z

Here is where you'll find information on shows, guests, playlists, news, links and an audio archive of past shows.

Jack