No Cops, No Cars, No Concrete: Gary Fisher’s Life on Two Wheels
Jack talks with founding father of the mountain bike Gary Fisher about his life in cycling, the subject of his new book “Being Gary Fi...
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The Bike Show Podcast from Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4fm's weekly radio show (and podcast) devoted to the art, science, politics and transcendental pleasure of cycling, in London and beyond. Presented by Jack Thurston the show ha...
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Are Modern Bikes Rubbish?
Bike technology is changing at a dizzying pace. There’s a bike for everything, from road racing and time trialling to gravel grinding and bi...
Planning Your Next Bike Adventure
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 bi...
Rough Stuff in the North York Moors
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...
From Usk to Wye with Dr Ian Walker
Jack goes for a ride with Dr Ian Walker, an environmental psychologist from the University of Bath and long-distance bike racer. Ian found g...
A life in cycling with Isla Rowntree
As a bike racer Isla Rowntree took on almost every discipline in cycling, rode professionally for the Raleigh MTB team and won the British n...
So you want to go cycling in… WW1 battlefields?
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...
This Is Not A Tour
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 t...
Cycletouring the Tour de France
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,...
Preston by Bike with Gavin Renshaw
Jack goes to Preston, Lancashire to ride with artist Gavin Renshaw. They ride out on some of the City of Preston’s bicycle infrastruct...
When Podcasts Collide
Find out what happens when The Bike Show collides with its hipper and funnier younger sister the Wheelsuckers podcast, presented by Alex Dav...
Higher, Faster, Rougher, Wilder with Max Leonard
The return of The Bike Show sees Jack chewing the fat with Max Leonard, author of Higher Calling: Road Cycling’s Obsession with the Mountain...
Can Cycling Save the World? with The Guardian’s Peter Walker
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 heal...
200 Years of Cycling
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...
The Indian Pacific Wheel Race: Overlanders of the 21st Century
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 d...
Under Monmouthshire Skies: Riding with Mike Parker
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 enoug...
Chris Boardman: A Life in Cycling
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 s...
What Goes Around
Jack Thurston heads to mid-Wales to meet Emily Chappell, former London bike messenger turned author turned ultra endurance racer. Plus the s...
From Peace Race to Tour de France
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...
Adventures in Bikepacking
Is bikepacking the most exciting new thing in cycling since the invention of the mountain bike or a much needed rebranding of the venerable...