The Bike Show show

The Bike Show

Summary: Resonance 104.4fm's weekly radio show devoted to the art, science, politics and transcendental pleasure of cycling, in London and beyond. From the Tour de France to Critical Mass, from cycle commuting to Kraftwerk, if it's got wheels, pedals, handlebars and a bell, it's here.

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 2 March 2009: Riding and writing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:30:43

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 stories about how bikes have changed … Continue reading →

 23 February 2009: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:37

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 the Water, we travel to De Beauvoir Town to … Continue reading →

 16 February 2009: Cycling and the recession | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:47

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 business. We hear from … Continue reading →

 9 February 2009: How British Cycling conquered the Olympics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:14

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 (pictured left, racing in the team sprint with Victoria Pendleton) … Continue reading →

 26 January 2009: Cycling the Northumberland Coast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:02

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 Swimming Coast (the salt-water version) will be published in the late spring. To enter … Continue reading →

 20 October 2008: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:50

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 toast of London’s bicycle-train commuters. The … Continue reading →

 13 October 2008: Emergency – Lorries Killing Cyclists | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:33:50

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 Cyclists and Cynthia Barlow, chairwoman … Continue reading →

 6 October 2008: The Moulton Story (part two) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:37

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 left) in the early eighties. … Continue reading →

 29 September 2008: The Moulton Story (part one) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:45

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 the boundaries of cutting edge engineering. Moultons have … Continue reading →

 27 September 2008: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:22:14

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 plus all the parties, art shows, polo matches … Continue reading →

 22 September 2008: Grant Petersen on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:31:12
 Summer antics: Cycle Camping in France | File Type: video/x-flv | Duration: Unknown

On this week’s show I promised some documentary evidence of my cycle tour in France last month. Well here it is. All filmed on a cheap and cheerful Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX07 compact digital camera with a video mode, so please … Continue reading →

 15 September 2008: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:32:43

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, present and future of cargo bikes and pedicabs is Leslie … Continue reading →

 8 September 2008: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:29:49

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 ‘training ride’ which began in Hull (England) in … Continue reading →

 1 September 2008: Around the world the hard way (part two) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 0:27:42

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: from Mexico to Alaska, through Siberia, … Continue reading →

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