Podcasts by The Bike Show Podcast

No Cops, No Cars, No Concrete: Gary Fisher’s Life on Two Wheels from 2021-10-11T20:45:50

Jack talks with founding father of the mountain bike Gary Fisher about his life in cycling, the subject of his new book “Being Gary Fisher”, published by Blue Train Publishing. After talking with G...

Are Modern Bikes Rubbish? from 2021-03-30T21:32:57

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 mount...

Planning Your Next Bike Adventure from 2020-07-17T13:36:10

As we emerge from coronavirus lockdown, is there a better summer holiday, a better way to get a change of scene, than heading out on your bike to explore the country where you live? This episode of...

Rough Stuff in the North York Moors from 2020-04-26T21:42:53

A ride report from the time before coronavirus. Jack heads into the wild uplands of the North York Moors on an audax event organised by Dean Clementson and hosted by Mike Metcalfe. “Don’t Keep to t...

From Usk to Wye with Dr Ian Walker from 2020-03-28T09:49:57

Jack goes for a ride with Dr Ian Walker, an environmental psychologist from the University of Bath and long-distance bike racer. Ian found global fame about fifteen years ago with an experiment he ...

A life in cycling with Isla Rowntree from 2019-05-13T12:15:52

As a bike racer Isla Rowntree took on almost every discipline in cycling, rode professionally for the Raleigh MTB team and won the British national championships in cyclocross on multiple occasions...

So you want to go cycling in… WW1 battlefields? from 2019-02-04T15:40:59

Tom Isitt has spent the past few years cycling around the battlefields of the first world war. He talks about his experiences on the Western Front and the mountainous border between Italy, Austria ...

This Is Not A Tour from 2018-10-25T10:52:15

Jack takes on his longest ever ride, as part of a weekend of audax events in memory and celebration of the late, great Mike Hall. Mike was the leading light in the current revival of self-supported...

Cycletouring the Tour de France from 2018-07-05T22:37:29

This year’s Tour de France starts on the island of Noirmoutier, on the Atlantic coast of western France. Jack rides the route of Stage one, in a touring style, taking in the rich landscape of sand ...

Preston by Bike with Gavin Renshaw from 2018-07-02T10:34:08

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 Bowlan...

When Podcasts Collide from 2018-04-23T13:07:20

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 Lon...

Higher, Faster, Rougher, Wilder with Max Leonard from 2018-03-15T11:42:52

The return of The Bike Show sees Jack chewing the fat with Max Leonard, author of Higher Calling: Road Cycling’s Obsession with the Mountains. They talk a lot about climbing, about the evolution of...

Can Cycling Save the World? with The Guardian’s Peter Walker from 2017-04-27T11:23:51

Peter Walker is a political reporter at the Guardian newspaper. He set up the Guardian's bike blog and his new book puts the case for a healthier, safer and more people-friendly nation. In short, a...

200 Years of Cycling from 2017-04-06T10:45:40

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 c...

The Indian Pacific Wheel Race: Overlanders of the 21st Century from 2017-03-24T00:03:49

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 oth...

Under Monmouthshire Skies: Riding with Mike Parker from 2017-02-16T12:24:29

Mike Parker is the author of the best-selling Map Addict, an affectionate history of Ordnance Survey maps and the people who can’t get enough of their beautiful maps. He’s an accomplished guidebook...

Chris Boardman: A Life in Cycling from 2016-06-29T22:53:34

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 t...

What Goes Around from 2016-04-18T22:41:55

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 M...

From Peace Race to Tour de France from 2016-02-05T14:15:12

In a recording of a live event held as part of the CycleScreen bicycle film festival at the Watershed Cinema in Bristol, Jack Thurston talks with author Herbie Sykes about his highly acclaimed book...

Adventures in Bikepacking from 2016-01-04T20:40:49

Is bikepacking the most exciting new thing in cycling since the invention of the mountain bike or a much needed rebranding of the venerable pastime of cycle touring? Or is just another cynical ruse...

Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang: Geraint Thomas’s World of Cycling from 2015-12-14T14:13:09

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. Co...

Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum from 2015-11-25T23:48:10

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 Recor...

Really Useful Bikes at the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show from 2015-08-17T11:03:28

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 usef...

Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Simon Warren from 2015-07-21T00:30:44

It’s the end of the second week of this year’s Tour de France, just time for us – and the riders – to catch our breaths before the final week and the showdown in the Alps. Joining Jack Thurston for...

Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Edward Pickering from 2015-07-13T07:21:17

After eight varied and exciting days of bike racing, the riders in the Tour de France take a well-earned rest day. Cycling journalist and author Edward Pickering has been following the race and is ...

Tour de France preview with Guy Andrews from 2015-06-29T14:46:03

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 g...

Put Me Back On The Trike from 2015-04-03T17:00:37

Three months and 17,000 miles into his attempt to break the longest-standing record in cycling, Steve Abraham suffered a road crash with a moped, leaving him with two broken bones in his ankle. We ...

Bike Boom? What Bike Boom? from 2015-03-02T15:10:58

Bike sales are up, cycling is all over newspapers and magazines. We in Britain are in the middle of a bonafide bike boom. So says veteran cycling journalist Carlton Reid, who's writing a book about...

How to Ride Your Bike Faster from 2015-02-23T23:01:44

With the recent reawakening of interest in the Hour Record, host Jack Thurston is joined by Michael Hutchinson, a professional bike racer who has dominated the UK time trialling scene for more than...

A Year on Two Wheels from 2015-02-11T00:02:48

It's the toughest and longest standing record in cycling. Only a handful of people have attempted to break the record Tommy Godwin set in 1939 for the greatest distance ridden on a bike in one year...

The Politics of Adventure from 2015-02-07T16:47:44

Jack Thurston’s guest this week is self-confessed angry young man, Julian Sayarer, who, five years ago, set a new record for cycling around the world. Having taken a strong dislike to Mark Beaumont...

The Near Miss Project from 2015-01-26T21:41:45

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 c...

Christmas Books Special from 2014-12-16T23:13:35

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 McK...

Come the E-Bike Revolution? from 2014-12-02T22:10:22

Electric bikes are a rapidly growing area of the bicycle industry, offering the promise of effortless two-wheeled travel. Professor Mark Miodownik of University College London tests a Smart E-bike ...

Severn Serenade from 2014-09-16T22:57:29

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 Avonmou...

Rapha at 10 and L’Eroica comes to Britain from 2014-07-12T22:50:47

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-Élysé...

Rolling with Klaus from 2014-07-08T11:41:56

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 the...

Woods and Wildflowers from 2014-06-08T22:44:48

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 Plantl...

Taking the Long View of the Giro d’Italia from 2014-05-14T22:48:32

In the opening week of the Giro d'Italia, or Tour of Italy, Feargal McKay joins Jack Thurston to cast a historian's view over the race, looking into its origins, its rivalry with the Tour de France...

Space for Cycling: The Big Campaign from 2014-05-11T22:43:24

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 tal...

Cycling and the Countryside from 2014-04-29T22:10:19

Cycling in the countryside can be an unparalleled joy. But too often fast, hostile roads and make it worse than cycling in Britain’s urban streets. What’s gone wrong? And more importantly, what can...

Lance Armstrong: My Part in His Downfall from 2014-04-16T11:00:29

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 victo...

Spring Season Opener: Iron Horse, Steel Condor from 2014-04-07T23:15:44

Mary Erskine of the band Me for Queen talks about their forthcoming album 'Iron Horse', inspired by cycling. And Grant Young, MD of London's Condor Cycles explains why steel bikes are selling like ...

Resofund Special Show from 2014-02-15T00:45:01

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 ?

The Healing Machine from 2013-11-18T22:00:35

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 te...

Campaigning for Cycling from 2013-11-16T00:31:55

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 ho...

High Tech and High Stakes in the Bicycle Boom from 2013-11-04T20:29:15

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 inventio...

Going the Distance from 2013-10-28T17:58:04

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 t...

High on a Mountain Top from 2013-10-22T16:28:47

Since the very earliest years of the bicycle, adventurous cyclists have been unable to resist the allure of the mountains - the challenge of riding up and the thrill of freewheeling down the other ...

A Ride in Border Country from 2013-07-30T11:49:16

In the last show of the summer season, Jack goes for a leisurely spin around the Welsh borders with local cyclist Owen Davies as his guide, from Abergavenny to Monmouth and back, past Raglan Castle...

C’est Magnifique! C’est le Tour de France! from 2013-07-23T14:42:15

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 thr...

Boardman versus Obree from 2013-07-18T23:27:34

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-br...

Uphill State of Mind from 2013-07-08T18:45:50

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 Do...

How Britain Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Bike Racing from 2013-07-01T20:05:11

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 th...

Podcast special: Reading Le Tour de France from 2013-06-25T21:27:11

It's just a few days until the start of the hundredth edition of the world’s greatest bike race, the Tour de France. Book publishers have taken this historic milestone as their cue to commission an...

Soon We’ll Be Wheelbuilding from 2013-05-20T23:08:28

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 Profes...

Eileen Sheridan: The Mighty Atom from 2013-05-18T22:41:31

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 Sheri...

What It Really Means to Go Dutch from 2013-05-02T09:52:41

To many UK cycling campaigners, David Hembrow is a Moses-type figure, handing down tablets of smooth, car-free red asphalt from the streets of Assen in the Netherlands where he lives and writes the...

Live from the V&A: Bike V Design from 2013-04-22T21:28:02

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 a...

A Bright New Dawn for Cycling in London? from 2013-04-16T09:53:07

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 Ams...

When Will We Stop Lorries Killing Cyclists? from 2013-04-08T18:43:21

As another cyclist is killed by a lorry in central London, Jack Thurston asks whether it's time to take a harder line to make the city's streets safer. Featuring Cynthia Barlow of RoadPeace, former...

Podcast special: Did Cycling Kill Kraftwerk? from 2013-01-31T23:30:41

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 reve...

Happy Christmas from the Vulpine Christmas Fête from 2012-12-19T12:03:23

In a seasonal podcast special, Jack heads to Balham, Gateway to the South, for the Christmas Fête organised by Vulpine, the London-based cycle clothing company. Featuring The Ride Journal, Artcrank...

Podcast Special: The Gospel According to St Grant from 2012-12-10T21:25:26

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 comfo...

Across Africa by Bike (part two) from 2012-11-12T20:18:44

Pete Gostelow rode twenty thousand miles across Africa and passed through dozens of countries. In doing so he showed that the bicycle is the best way to travel. In this episode we continue our ride...

Across Africa by Bike (part one) from 2012-11-05T19:00:04

As November brings cold, dark cycling conditions to Britain, there's no better time to get out the maps and start dreaming up adventures for next year. How about 20,000 miles across Africa? That's ...

Raleigh Recall from 2012-10-30T00:33:22

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 bro...

Raleigh (part two): The Fall from 2012-10-23T13:08:28

In the second of a two-part feature on the Raleigh Bicycle Company, historian Tony Hadland and Jack Thurston look at Raleigh's post-war success as the world's biggest bicycle manufacturing company ...

Raleigh (part one): The Rise from 2012-10-15T19:54:09

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-1...

Spilling the Beans from 2012-10-08T21:16:29

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 product...

Bicycle Polo, Cosmic-style from 2012-10-02T11:58:58

Bicycle polo has been played for more than a century but the ‘hard court’ variety is a relatively new, urban development. Todd, Mat and Rupert of London’s Cosmic Bike Polo team (pictured, above) ex...

Podcast special: Lionel Birnie’s People’s Grand Tour from 2012-08-09T09:55:02

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 Sho...

Live from Belgium House from 2012-07-31T13:36:09

In a live broadcast from Belgium House, a temporary Olympic Village and 'cycling paradise' in London's Middle Temple, Jack finds out about Flandrien cycling culture from Rik Vanwalleghem, director ...

Taking the Long View of The Tour de France from 2012-07-09T20:27:28

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 i...

How Ned Boulting Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Tour de France from 2012-06-30T04:19

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 c...

Stephen Roche, twenty five years later from 2012-06-19T10:43:15

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 roa...

To Coventry: Birthplace of the Bicycle from 2012-06-11T19:59:53

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 t...

To Copenhagen, City of Cyclists from 2012-05-22T11:48:53

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 s...

A Century of Italian Cycle Sport from 2012-05-14T23:41:56

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 boo...

Merckx, Merckx, Merckx from 2012-05-07T20:39:14

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 journalists ...

Voting Bike at the London Mayoral Election from 2012-05-01T13:56:01

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 Danny...

Burrows on the Bicycle (part two – laid back) from 2012-04-24T16:28:13

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 vehicl...

Burrows on the Bicycle (part one) from 2012-04-17T11:04:18

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 ye...

All the Young Dudes: The Revival of Bicycle Framebuilding in Britain from 2012-04-03T09:59:50

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 Do...

Summer’s here! Get on your bike and ride from 2012-03-27T10:48

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 (pic...

Christian Wolmar on London’s Transport Choice from 2012-03-19T22:56:38

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 Camden C...

How to get more women riding bikes from 2012-03-12T20:15:25

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 competit...

On Two Wheels in France from 2012-03-06T14:41:31

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 eve...

Raphaël Krafft: reportage on two wheels from 2012-02-22T11:48:18

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 Ameri...

Across Europe by Bike from 2012-02-13T22:24:32

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, t...

Londoners On Bikes…with Votes! from 2012-02-06T20:52:44

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. Plus ...

The Obree Way from 2012-01-31T11:36:15

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 b...

Down at the London Bike Show from 2012-01-23T20:12:12

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. T...

The Lost Cyclist with David Herlihy from 2012-01-16T20:14:10

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 tradi...

Looking back at 2011 and ahead to 2012 from 2011-12-13T13:03:54

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 Columbi...

Reading About Riding from 2011-12-07T12:36:22

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 The S...

Another day for you and me in Carradice from 2011-11-28T20:29:26

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 indestr...

Is riding a bike as easy as riding a bike? from 2011-11-23T16:18:27

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 like ...

Campaigning for a Civilised Cycling City from 2011-11-14T23:25:04

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 junctio...

Is London Air Killing Us? from 2011-11-07T20:45:08

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 doing ...

Team GB rules the track and Patrick Field tells it like it is from 2011-10-25T10:46:41

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 at t...

Paris-Brest-Paris: part two from 2011-10-18T12:11:18

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 veterans ...

Paris-Brest-Paris: part one from 2011-10-10T23:08:33

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 agony ...

Jah Tweed from 2011-10-05T13:03:26

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 winner here a...

Season opener: Time Travelling from 2011-09-26T19:23:44

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 Door Bic...

Blackfriars and Beyond from 2011-08-08T16:41:48

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 cyclists yet...

The 2011 Tour de France: a modern classic? from 2011-07-27T16:32:22

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 Nei...

Dunwich Dynamo Redux from 2011-07-18T19:20:17

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 everyon...

All Night, All Right: Dunwich Dynamo 2011 Preview from 2011-07-12T12:31:16

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 cyclists plan...

Road Danger Reduction with Dr Robert Davis from 2011-07-05T14:30:34

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 peo...

A Midsummer Misadventure with Dixe Wills (and a podcast bonus) from 2011-06-27T22:15:23

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 ‘sub tw...

Keep the Red Stuff In from 2011-06-20T22:04:38

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 Open 2011 is ...

Fix Your Own Bike from 2011-06-14T13:01:30

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 speci...

The Millar’s Tale from 2011-06-06T19:09:44

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 Armstron...

Rob Penn on Looking for the Perfect Bike from 2011-05-27T14:38:10

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 contrib...

A Green Mayor? On the Campaign Trail with Jenny Jones from 2011-05-17T10:37:39

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 Hall an...

End of Season: The Best Bits, 2008-2010 from 2011-02-21T13:16:48

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, Mark ...

Up the ‘Uts: The Slow Death (and Rebirth?) of the British Cycling Club from 2011-02-01T15:08:16

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 possibilitie...

Bike Blogging with Mark Ames of ibikelondon / Jan Gehl / Eric Pickles MP from 2011-01-24T22:56:13

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 Britis...

Bart Kyzar: Man on a Mission from 2011-01-11T16:41:39

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 with Mi...

A Christmas Stocking: Apprenticeships, L’Eroica and MyBikeLane.com from 2010-12-14T14:26:51

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 cycl...

Four Great Lives in Cycling: Kuklos, Robinson, Mustoe, Fignon from 2010-12-07T13:49:47

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), ...

Season opener: Knutsford Great Race and all the fun of the Cycle Show 2010 from 2010-11-30T11:54:19

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 the ...

Ron Cooper on Ron Cooper from 2010-08-04T00:02:12

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 talks ...

Looking back at Le Tour and ahead to ‘Bicycle Thieves’ from 2010-07-27T18:32:32

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 London,...

Talking Le Tour with Paul Fournel from 2010-07-21T09:26:39

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 in...

Gavin Turk’s ‘Les Bikes du Bois Rond’ from 2010-07-14T14:24:01

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 Gary Mc...

Un Tour de France de Londres with Stephen Bayley from 2010-07-08T11:34:43

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 is th...

Now We Are Six (part one) from 2010-06-22T17:48:04

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 from the fi...

A Journey Into Tranquility from 2010-06-08T12:46:10

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 devoted...

A Life On Two Wheels from 2010-06-02T11:41:02

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 materia...

Giro d’Italia at Look Mum No Hands from 2010-05-25T09:19:33

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 newest and b...

Cycle Superhighways – Waste of Paint or Copenhagenization? from 2010-05-18T09:46:35

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 top transp...

Season opener: Berlin, bikes & public art, Dunwich Dynamo from 2010-05-10T17:44:43

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 ins...

The Racing Year with Lionel Birnie from 2010-02-17T11:05:06

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, the ...

Do It Yourself from 2010-01-26T17:14:40

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 t...

If the bike fits… from 2010-01-19T10:18:58

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 bike ...

Well-being from 2010-01-12T15:34:56

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-relat...

Jumble Jumble from 2010-01-04T19:41:29

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 around...

Red light means go (or does it?) from 2009-12-15T15:44:39

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 a...

Reading and riding: Christmas books special from 2009-12-08T14:30:31

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 cyc...

Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part two) from 2009-11-30T21:44:57

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 Crane ...

Montreal-New York City by bicycle (part one) from 2009-11-23T20:34:53

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

Wanted: Bicycle Mechanics from 2009-11-16T22:34:38

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 enough of w...

Calling Time on “Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You” (SMIDSY) from 2009-11-09T20:07:03

The Bike Show moves into advocacy mode this week with guest in the studio Debra Rolfe, Campaigns Director of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC), Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 60,000+ me...

Season Opener: Childhood Daze from 2009-10-26T20:18:10

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 Fourne...

Cycle Chic from 2009-08-03T19:00:07

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 cyc...

From Sublime to Ridiculous from 2009-07-21T10:20:07

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. Multita...

Podcast only: Theatre Review – Pedal Pusher from 2009-07-16T16:07:28

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 prodigy ...

Blazing Saddles: Inside the Brooks factory from 2009-07-13T20:21:02

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 invented. ...

Tour de Farce? from 2009-07-06T19:18:55

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 on...

London to Bristol (part two) from 2009-06-29T23:05:42

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 Euro...

London to Bristol (part one) from 2009-06-22T22:53:32

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

No Bike Week: What happened? from 2009-06-08T22:00:29

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 s...

Radiocycle from 2009-06-02T00:04:15

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 of th...

Podcast only: Spring Classics Special Edition from 2009-04-11T16:35:04

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 … Contin...

The end of the road from 2009-04-01T04:52:36

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 sport ...

16 March 2009: End of season finale – a bike pop epic from 2009-03-16T18:41:08

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 o...

9 March 2009: Legends of the Rás from 2009-03-10T13:31:25

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 cherished tra...

2 March 2009: Riding and writing from 2009-03-03T13:53:11

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 personal...

23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week from 2009-02-23T20:20:23

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 Woods and ...

16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession from 2009-02-17T15:00:10

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 busines...

9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics from 2009-02-10T17:54:10

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 Reade...

26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland Coast from 2009-01-27T13:35:12

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 Swimmi...

20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle from 2008-10-20T22:33:36

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 toa...

13 October 2008: Emergency – Lorries Killing Cyclists from 2008-10-14T12:24:57

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 Cyclis...

6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two) from 2008-10-06T18:43:30

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 lef...

29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one) from 2008-09-29T17:00:56

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 th...

27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town from 2008-09-27T16:37:31

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 Cinema p...

22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’ from 2008-09-22T19:32:20

15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport? from 2008-09-15T19:53:03

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, presen...

8 September 2008: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend from 2008-09-08T22:59:45

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 ‘trainin...

1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two) from 2008-09-03T07:43:51

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

11 August 2008: Around the world the hard way (part one) from 2008-08-11T18:29:09

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

4 August 2008: Cycling, politics and ideology from 2008-08-06T15:02:05

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 the...

28 July 2008: Looking back at Le Tour 2008 from 2008-07-28T23:32:33

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 sma...

21 July 2008: Sublime Nights: Dunwich Dynamo 16 and S24O with Grant Peterson from 2008-07-21T21:42:36

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 tha...

14 July 2008: Vive Le Tour // Civilised Streets from 2008-07-14T22:09:22

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 Env...

7 July 2008: 50 Quirky Bike Rides from 2008-07-07T22:46:04

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 E...

30 June 2008: London Lidos by Bicycle from 2008-06-30T12:12:58

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 Br...

23 June 2008: London architecture by bike and a Rapha exclusive from 2008-06-23T20:48:34

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 fanta...

16 June 2008: From the Tropics to the Stones from 2008-06-16T19:10:47

3 March 2008: Cycling Troubadours from 2008-03-06T14:36:38

25 February 2008: Will Vélib work in London? from 2008-02-27T14:01:02

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 metropolis....

18 February 2008: Hanging with the Trixie Chix from 2008-02-19T23:25:39

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 cut th...

11 February 2007: Love from 2008-02-11T20:10:19

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 Love...

4 February 2008: Reclaim the Street(maps) from 2008-02-04T19:56:10

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 Wikipedia f...

28 January 2008: Transition Town Bicycling from 2008-01-28T21:12:53

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 embrac...

21 January 2008: Hidden Treasure from 2008-01-21T23:56:09

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 t...

14 January 2008: Are cycling Waterloo sunsets under threat? from 2008-01-14T21:45:04

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 canvases...

7 January 2008: New Year’s Resolutions from 2008-01-08T12:47:30

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 self...

17 December 2007: London Olympics 2012 from 2007-12-18T00:08:06

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 perimete...

10 December 2007: How to Win at Roller-Racing from 2007-12-11T01:24:25

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 comedy-dra...

3 December 2007: Fixed Fever from 2007-12-04T14:50:24

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 the ...

26 November 2007: Christmas books special from 2007-11-27T18:25:09

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 whose...

19 November 2007: Tales of the summer from 2007-11-21T13:38:38

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 epic a...

2 July 2007: The Lowdown on Cyclosportives from 2007-07-02T17:27:49

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: ma...

25 June 2007: Flandrien from 2007-06-26T00:21:44

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 and...

18 June 2007: Style on two wheels from 2007-06-19T02:04:20

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 advice to ...

11 June 2007: ‘Slow Bicycling’ in Italy; on two wheels in Provence from 2007-06-11T11:37:58

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 along th...

4 June 2007: To Paris for La Fête du Vélo // Unicycling in South Dakota from 2007-06-04T23:00:07

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 bikes i...

28 May 2007: Graeme Fife’s life in cycling from 2007-05-30T22:33:56

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 Le ...

21 May 2007: Poetry on a country ride with Martin Newell from 2007-05-22T00:37:01

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 Wivenhoe to...

14 May 2007: Road Peace // Floyd Landis from 2007-05-15T00:06:51

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 test...

1 May 2007: Podcast special: ‘Stannerd’ comes out for cycling from 2007-05-01T18:22:46

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, London’s ...

12 March 2007: The word from San Francisco and a singing bicycle prototype from 2007-03-12T23:07:35

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 cycle c...

5 March 2007: Green London? from 2007-03-07T10:19:33

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 com...

26 February 2007: Calling All Bicycle Filmmakers! from 2007-02-27T14:52:43

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 dis...

12 February 2007: More experimental bicycle music from 2007-02-14T19:30:07

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 o...

5 February 2007: Cyclosportives, bicycle podcasting and Budapest from 2007-02-08T15:06:56

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 ...

29 January 2007: Going the Distance and the Physics of the Bicycle from 2007-02-02T19:17

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 worl...

22 January 2007: Looking forward to a great year for cycling from 2007-01-23T11:19

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 t...

15 January 2007: Women bike messengers and a ride through a very long tunnel from 2007-01-16T20:07

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...

8 January 2007 – Doorstep Adventures with Patrick Field (part two) from 2007-01-09T13:41

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 Isl...

18 December 2006: Doorstep adventures with Patrick Field (Part one) from 2006-12-19T02:01

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...

11 December 2006 – The Christmas edition from 2006-12-15T00:36

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 Velor...

4 December 2006: Sur le pavé in Brussels from 2006-12-04T18:33

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 hou...

27 November 2006: Berlin special from 2006-11-27T22:49

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...

20 November 2006: Experimental music and the bicycle from 2006-11-20T22:56

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 Berez...

13 November 2006: On a Bickerton in China, the Sideways Bike and cycling with disabilities from 2006-11-14T18:58

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 f...

6 November 2006: Edinburgh by train, low carbon travel from 2006-11-07T00:27

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...

23 October 2006: At Cycle 2006 – Eddy Merckx and a hunt for gadgets from 2006-10-24T21:41

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 monit...

9 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part two) from 2006-10-09T20:47

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 ...

2 October 2006 – Mississippi Tales (part one) from 2006-10-03T20:33

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...

31 July 2006: The folding miracle: inside the Brompton factory from 2006-08-01T12:12

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 Rit...

24 July 2006: Remembering Major Taylor – the fastest man on the planet from 2006-07-24T16:07

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 Lyn...

17 July 2006: Le Tour down le pub from 2006-07-17T13:49

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 ...

10 July 2006: The Hour Record with Michael Hutchinson from 2006-07-11T22:08

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 cy...

3 July 2006: Creativity, design and the bicycle from 2006-07-07T15:42

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 displa...

26 June 2006: Extreme Cycling from 2006-06-27T10:27

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. ...

19 June 2006: It’s Bike Week! from 2006-06-20T01:49

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 t...

12 June 2006: A ride in the Royal Parks from 2006-06-19T23:59

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 l...

24 April 2006 – Martin Newell and Spoke N Word in Essex from 2006-04-24T08:44

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.

Cycling in New York City (part two) from 2006-04-18T08:54

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 bic...

Cycling in New York City (part one) from 2006-04-11T03:50

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 Two.

3 April 2006: Standing up for Cycling; Tall Bikes from 2006-04-04T09:30

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 aroun...

27 March 2006: Bicycle recycling from 2006-03-30T12:40

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 ...

20 March 2006: Deadley Treadleys live session from 2006-03-28T00:02

This week’s show features a long-awaited live session by London’s best bike messenger band, the Deadley Treadleys. MP3 DOWNLOAD

13 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part two from 2006-03-16T16:25

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 whi...

6 March 2006: Bike Show Jukebox Jury – part one from 2006-03-16T15:41

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...

27 February 2006 – Bicycles on trains from 2006-03-01T18:57

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 campa...

20 February 2006 show: Cycling in the media from 2006-02-21T23:49

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 cha...

13 February 2006: Tour De France in London in 2007! from 2006-02-17T18:28

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...

19 December 2005 – Kids on bikes? from 2005-12-24T23:52

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 so...

5 December 2005 Show – Police on bikes!! from 2005-12-09T19:39

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 listeners i...

28 November 2005: Surviving the winter on two wheels from 2005-11-29T19:54

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 ...

21 November 2005 Show: Sheldon Brown from 2005-11-24T14:31

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 weir...

31 October 2005: Roller-racing, Ghostcycle and Critical Mass London from 2005-11-01T16:38

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 expl...

24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival from 2005-10-27T12:00

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 dire...

17 October 2005 Show: ‘Deviant’ cyclists and the Pushbike Architecture Treasure Hunt from 2005-10-18T17:48

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....

(Archive) 11 April 2005 Show: Onset from 2005-10-07T18:23

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

21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Maillot Jaune from 2005-10-07T18:22

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

25 April 2005: G8 Protest Bike Ride from 2005-10-07T18:20

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. MP3

(Archive) 31 January 2005: Rose Ades from 2005-10-07T18:18

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 and...

28 March 2005: Navindh Baburam from 2005-10-07T18:16

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

(Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry from 2005-10-07T18:10

Guest is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills. MP3

(Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs from 2005-10-07T18:06

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

20 December 2004 from 2005-10-07T18:01

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

6 December 2004: London cycling from 2005-10-07T17:48

Guest in the studio is Simon Brammer, Director of the London Cycle Campaign. James Foster memorial ride. Waterloo Bridge roundabout. MP3

(Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo from 2005-09-21T16:43

Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3

15 August 2005: Green cycling from 2005-09-20T17:54

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 sustainabl...

22 August 2005 Show – a countryside trip from 2005-09-05T19:37

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, an...

18 July 2005: Le Tour De France from 2005-08-13T20:27

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. A...

8 August 2005 Show: History of the bicycle; London-Edinburgh-London audax ride from 2005-08-13T19:55

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-E...

16 May Show: Riding with Buffalo Bill from 2005-08-11T14:39

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 messen...

4 April 2005: Rosie Walford from 2005-08-11T14:17

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. ...

24 January 2005 – Jeremy Deller from 2005-08-08T09:41

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

27 December 2004: Mark Ellen from 2005-08-06T00:21

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 col...

10 January 2005: Kraftwerk and Cycling from 2005-08-05T10:09

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

18 April 2005: Paris-Roubaix Classic from 2005-08-04T11:47

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. Track list:...

2 May 2005: The Hungry Cyclist from 2005-08-04T11:41

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 – Leslie Ug...

1 August 2005: Cycling after the London bomb attacks from 2005-08-02T08:06

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 S...

13 June 2005: Bike Week Special from 2005-08-01T04:40

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 pa...

9 May 2005: London Velodrome at Herne Hill from 2005-07-29T18:29

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 w...

25 July Show: Johnny Green from 2005-07-28T14:30

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 vi...

13 June – Bike Week Special!! from 2005-06-07T17:12

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 Squa...

23 May Show: Buffalo Bill // Giro D’Italia from 2005-05-24T02:46

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. M...