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A Ride in Border Country 30 Jul 2013 | 04:49 pm
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, R...
C’est Magnifique! C’est le Tour de France! 23 Jul 2013 | 07:42 pm
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 three ...
Boardman versus Obree 19 Jul 2013 | 04:27 am
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-break...
Uphill State of Mind 8 Jul 2013 | 11:45 pm
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 Downs...
How Britain Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Bike Racing 2 Jul 2013 | 01:05 am
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 the R...
Podcast special: Reading Le Tour de France 26 Jun 2013 | 02:27 am
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 and p...
Soon We’ll Be Wheelbuilding 21 May 2013 | 04:08 am
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 Professor...
Eileen Sheridan: The Mighty Atom 19 May 2013 | 03:41 am
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 Sheridan...
What It Really Means to Go Dutch 2 May 2013 | 02:52 pm
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 bl...
Live from the V&A: Bike V Design 23 Apr 2013 | 02:28 am
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 acti...
