The Resonance Audio Archive
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The Bike Show: Radiocycle
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 sou…
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The end of the road for The Bike Show
After five years, it’s the end of the road for The Bike Show. Find out why in this special final edition featuring many Bike Show favourites including Buffalo Bill, editor of Movin…
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The Bike Show: Legends of the Rás
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 m…
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The Bike Show: The best in cycling writing
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 jo…
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The Bike Show: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week
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 Betwe…
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The Bike Show: Cycling and the recession
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 th…
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The Bike Show: British Cycling // BikeSnobNYC
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 t…
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The Bike Show: Cycling the Northumberland Coast
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 Bri…
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The Bike Show: Inventing the perfect folding bicycle
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 miracl…
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The Bike Show: Emergency – Lorries Killing Cyclists
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…
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The Bike Show: The Moulton Story (part two)
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 des…
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The Bike Show: The Moulton Story (part one)
The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical 1960s reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the wa…
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The Bike Show: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town
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…
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The Bike Show: Grant Peterson on overnight trips and a visit to London’s ‘anti-bike shop’
Grant Peterson of Rivendell Bicycle Works urges us to get on our bikes for sub-twenty four hour overnight camping trips. Plus a visit to a fantastic new ‘anti-bike shop’ in Finsbur…
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The Bike Show: Are cargo bikes the future of urban transport?
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…
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The Bike Show: Ian Hibell – Paying respects to a legend
Remembering Ian Hibell, the world’s greatest 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 rid…
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The Bike Show: Around the world the hard way (part two)
Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of hi…
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The Bike Show: Around the world the hard way (part one)
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…
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The Bike Show: Cycling, politics and ideology
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 f…
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The Bike Show: Looking back at Le Tour 2008
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 i…