Best Jack Thurston Podcasts (2024)

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No Cops, No Cars, No Concrete: Gary Fisher’s Life on Two Wheels 1:20:30

3y ago1:20:30

1:20:30

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 Gary, Jack chats with Guy Andrews and … Continue reading → The post No Cops, No Cars, No Concrete: Gary Fisher’s Life on Two Wheels first appeared on The …

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Are Modern Bikes Rubbish? 54:27

3+ y ago54:27

54:27

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 mountain biking. And that’s not to mention electric assist … Continue reading → The post Are Modern Bikes Rubbish? first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Planning Your Next Bike Adventure 1:47:29

4y ago1:47:29

1:47:29

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 the podcast is … Continue reading → The post Planning Your Next Bike Adventure first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Rough Stuff in the North York Moors 48:47

4+ y ago48:47

48:47

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 the Road” promises gravel tracks, … Continue reading → The post Rough Stuff in the North York Moors first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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From Usk to Wye with Dr Ian Walker 54:17

4+ y ago54:17

54:17

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 did to measure how close he was … Continue reading → The post From Usk to Wye with Dr Ian Walker first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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A life in cycling with Isla Rowntree 1:05:35

5+ y ago1:05:35

1:05:35

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. But it is as a bike designer and entrepreneur that she's made the biggest impact, transforming the market for children’s bikes. The high quality kids b…

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So you want to go cycling in… WW1 battlefields? 1:19:19

5+ y ago1:19:19

1:19:19

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 and Slovenia and tells the story of the extraordinary bike race that was held in spring 1919 across the devastated lands of Northern France and Belgium. …

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This Is Not A Tour 54:38

6y ago54:38

54:38

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 long distance bike racing, twice winner of the Tour Divide, winner of the TransAm Bike Race and founder and organiser of the pan-European Transcontinent…

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Cycletouring the Tour de France 1:09:30

6y ago1:09:30

1:09:30

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 dunes, beaches, tidal lagoons and salt marsh and sampling the gastronomic delights of the region. Continue reading → The post Cycletouring the Tour de Fr…

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Preston by Bike with Gavin Renshaw 1:01:12

6y ago1:01:12

1:01:12

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 Bowland. Along the way they talk about … Continue reading → The post Preston by Bike with Gavin Renshaw first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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When Podcasts Collide 46:55

6+ y ago46:55

46:55

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 London Bike Kitchen. And hear frame-builder and cycle … Continue reading → The post When Podcasts Collide first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Higher, Faster, Rougher, Wilder with Max Leonard 1:05:36

6+ y ago1:05:36

1:05:36

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 cycling towards exploring and traveling to new places, about cycling in France, and about Max’s Kickstarter project to republish a long-lost cycling gui…

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Can Cycling Save the World? with The Guardian’s Peter Walker 49:54

7+ y ago49:54

49:54

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 Bike Nation. In conversation with Jack Thurston, Peter talks about his past life as bike messenger, how his views on cycling have evolved and why he bel…

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200 Years of Cycling 38:51

7+ y ago38:51

38:51

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 centuries of cycling and cyclists is Dr Michael Hutchinson, former professional bike racer and author of several books about cycling. His latest is "Re:Cy…

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The Indian Pacific Wheel Race: Overlanders of the 21st Century 44:32

7+ y ago44:32

44:32

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 other cyclists determined to push themselves to the very limits of physical and mental endurance. Jack is joined by Australian cycling journalist Craig Fry …

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Under Monmouthshire Skies: Riding with Mike Parker 1:12:22

7+ y ago1:12:22

1:12:22

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 writer, a former stand up comedian and has presented TV and radio programmes about Wales, his adopted homeland. In 2015 he stood for Parliament for Plai…

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Chris Boardman: A Life in Cycling 58:03

8y ago58:03

58:03

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 the continent as a professional, wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. His R&D team helped British Cycling to world domination on the track and…

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What Goes Around 46:31

8+ y ago46:31

46:31

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 Mail's unwanted fleet of postal bikes, as Elephant Bikes. Continue reading → The post What Goes Around first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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From Peace Race to Tour de France 51:55

8+ y ago51:55

51:55

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 The Race Against the Stasi. It’s … Continue reading → The post From Peace Race to Tour de France first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Adventures in Bikepacking 35:13

8+ y ago35:13

35:13

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 to get us to buy more stuff, an attempt to commercialise that wonderful thing called adventure. Jack heads to mid-Wales for the Bear Bones Winter Event …

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Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang: Geraint Thomas’s World of Cycling 57:58

8+ y ago57:58

57:58

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. Continue reading → The post Ain’t Nuthin’ but a G Thang: Geraint Thomas’s World of Cycling first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum 31:02

8+ y ago31:02

31:02

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 Record. He speaks with the shows curator Donna Loveday and consider the show's strengths and weaknesses. Tim and host Jack Thurston then wonder if it's right …

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Really Useful Bikes at the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show 47:43

9y ago47:43

47:43

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 useful bikes at the show, from an off-road porteur to a separable road bike to a childback tandem in titanium. Continue reading → The post Really Useful Bike…

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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Simon Warren 40:48

9y ago40:48

40:48

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 … Continue reading → The post Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Simon Warren first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Edward Pickering 26:31

9y ago26:31

26:31

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 on hand to review the first … Continue reading → The post Tour de France: Rest Day Review with Edward Pickering first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Tour de France preview with Guy Andrews 1:00:04

9y ago1:00:04

1:00:04

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 grand tours in decades. With four … Continue reading → The post Tour de France preview with Guy Andrews first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Put Me Back On The Trike 18:43

9+ y ago18:43

18:43

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 hear more from Steve as well as from some of his many well-wishers. Continue reading → The post Put Me Back On The Trike first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Bike Boom? What Bike Boom? 34:57

9+ y ago34:57

34:57

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 the bike boom, that's called, imaginatively, "Bike Boom". But fellow long-in-the-tooth cycling journalist John Stevenson of Road.CC disagrees. Cycling i…

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How to Ride Your Bike Faster 37:54

9+ y ago37:54

37:54

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 decade, setting national records for distances from 10 miles to 100 miles. He's also an accomplished writer and his latest book Faster: The Obsession,…

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A Year on Two Wheels 54:44

9+ y ago54:44

54:44

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. But this year two extraordinary cyclists are having a crack at it. In an in-depth interview with British long distance legend Steve Abraham, who is alr…

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The Politics of Adventure 34:14

9+ y ago34:14

34:14

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 previous record-holder, whose record attempt was backed by big business and, according to Sayarer, represented everything that was wrong with the w…

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The Near Miss Project 28:24

9+ y ago28:24

28:24

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 common yet much less studied and understood, are the almost crashes, the near misses, that are so much a part of the experience of cycling in Britain. The…

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Christmas Books Special 45:44

9+ y ago45:44

45:44

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 McKay, Ned Boulting, Herbie Sykes, Daniel Friebe, Tom Southam, Richard Moore, Max Leonard and Emma O'Reilly. Guy Andrews, founding editor of Rouleur magazin…

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Come the E-Bike Revolution? 38:29

9+ y ago38:29

38:29

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 (pictured, above) as part of an in-depth look at e-bike technologies, … Continue reading → The post Come the E-Bike Revolution? first appeared on The Bik…

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Severn Serenade 49:51

10y ago49:51

49:51

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 Avonmouth to the banks of the River Severn and beyond. Continue reading → The post Severn Serenade first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Rapha at 10 and L’Eroica comes to Britain 33:08

10y ago33:08

33:08

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-Élysées as suppliers of clothing to the Sky Pro Cycling Team. Jack checks in with Laura Bower and James Fairbank at Rapha to talk about Chris Froome's fishnet…

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Rolling with Klaus 56:36

10y ago56:36

56:36

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 they try to find out how London's roads compare with cycling cities like Copenhagen. Then Bill joins Kieron Yates and Jack Thurston to discuss what happened…

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Woods and Wildflowers 25:11

10y ago25:11

25:11

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 Plantlife explains his charity's new campaign about road verges while Garfield Kennedy of the Woodland Trust, which manages hundreds of woods and forests acros…

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Taking the Long View of the Giro d’Italia 39:29

10+ y ago39:29

39:29

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 and where the race is heading in the years to come. Continue reading → The post Taking the Long View of the Giro d’Italia first appeared on The Bike Sho…

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Space for Cycling: The Big Campaign 29:14

10+ y ago29:14

29:14

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 talk about Space for Cyclingand about the changing landscape of cycle campaigning is Ashok Sinha, chief executive of the London Cycling Campaign. Continue r…

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Cycling and the Countryside 31:21

10+ y ago31:21

31:21

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 be done about it? Ralph Smyth, transport campaigner at the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, explains what the problems are and what his org…

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Lance Armstrong: My Part in His Downfall 29:25

10+ y ago29:25

29:25

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 victories and how the truth about his team's doping finally came out. We discuss whether cycling is cleaning up its act and the risks of sports journalists be…

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Spring Season Opener: Iron Horse, Steel Condor 35:05

10+ y ago35:05

35:05

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 hotcakes, and how the London firm is helping breathe new life into the Italian bicycle manufacturing scene. Continue reading → The post Spring Season Ope…

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Resofund Special Show 4:34

10+ y ago4:34

4:34

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 post Resofund Special Show first appeared on The Bike Show.By Resonance FM

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The Healing Machine 48:07

10+ y ago48:07

48:07

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 tells of how his quest to make a mark on his local amateur bike racing scene helped him come to terms with his own inner demons caused by the torture he su…

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Campaigning for Cycling 33:46

11y ago33:46

33:46

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 how an effective cycling campaign requires a single, simple message clearly and imaginatively presented, mass mobilisation and relentless pressure on polit…

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High Tech and High Stakes in the Bicycle Boom 30:55

11y ago30:55

30:55

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 invention of the hub gear, a story of gifted … Continue reading → The post High Tech and High Stakes in the Bicycle Boom first appeared on The Bike Show.…

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Going the Distance 40:12

11y ago40:12

40:12

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 talk about the allure of going the distance, with advice from a handful of members of the global randonneuring scene. Continue reading → The post Going th…

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High on a Mountain Top 1:03:56

11y ago1:03:56

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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 side. Mountains are also the crucible of many of the most dramatic moments in professional bike racing. Daniel Friebe and Pete Goding, the authors of 'Mo…

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A Ride in Border Country 29:49

11y ago29:49

29:49

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, Rockfield recording studios and the unlikely Welsh residence of the notorious Nazi politician Rudolf Hess. Continue reading → The post A Ride in Border…

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