Thu, 19 November 2009 In October I rode coast-to-coast across Italy with US bike holiday company Ciclismo Classico. Dang, it was unseasonably cold, but still a great journey. Enjoy this six minute video record of the trip.Direct download: Bike_Across_Italy_Ciclismo_Classico_Oct_2009iTunes.mp4 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:54 AM Comments[1] |
Thu, 25 June 2009 Four minute video of the first ever Press Camp, Sun Valley, Idaho.Comments[14] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 This is HOME, a 1.5 hour movie about Planet Earth. It's eye-candy, but it's also eye-opening, even though you already know all the Al Gore/climate change stats. HOME is bad for cars, Las Vegas, Dubai, Israel, cows. Good for greenies and fans of HD gyroscope cameras. Forget about the ragtrade sponsor, that's how the movie is going to go viral: it's free. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, GoodPlanet Fundation President and photographer of 'Earth From the Air', produced the movie and he says: "We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. "The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. "For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because HOME is a non-profit film." http://www.youtube.com/homeproject http://www.goodplanet.org/en Comments[21] |
Tue, 26 May 2009 Using real CCTV footage of a bike being stolen, and with the help of Northumbria Police's anti bike theft squad, this two and a half minute video could keep your bike safe. Tips in great detail here: http://tinyurl.com/yplzouDirect download: How_To_Lock_Your_Bike_CorrectlyiPodIPhone.mp4 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:38 AM Comments[18] |
Fri, 22 May 2009 After CTC members wrote to complain, the UK's Department for Transport has pulled a online game encouraging online users to hit unhelmeted kids! Here's the game...I think I might have been playing it wrong.Comments[9] |
Thu, 26 March 2009 Gary Fisher audio recorded in Otley Town Hall, 14th March 2009. Gary was in Yorkshire for a Chevin Cycles organised screening of MTB history doc 'Klunkerz'.Keywords: George Lucas. Grateful Dead. BMX cruiser class. 29er bikes. Panasonic 32lb bikes. Gearboxes. Girls looking good on bikes. Copenhagen Cycle Chic. Steel v alumunim v carbon. New tech: 10 years of failures. Dashing Tweeds. Living in the same shack as W. C Fields. Carved tokers. Avenue of the Giants trail, California. Comments[12] |
Fri, 20 March 2009 This is the Bike to Work podcast hosted by Quickrelease.tv. Here's an audio interview with cycling legend Gary Fisher, one of the founding fathers of mountain biking. Gary was in the UK to lead some rides at Chevin Cycles of Otley. He rode his trademark 29er, but earlier that morning I grabbed Gary at breakfast and dragged him into a hotel ballroom to record this audio. We didn't talk about wheel sizes, we talked about transport bikes. Comments[38] |
Thu, 5 February 2009 NOTE: Click on file to play the MP3 or download via iTunes here. There's always lots of great cycling content on the Quickrelease.tv audio and video podcastAt an All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group reception in the House of Commons, MPs, peers and bike big-wigs heard from British Cycling's performance director Dave Brailsford and BMX racer Shanaze Reade. Brailsford revealed that freestyle BMX is likely to be introduced at the London Olympics; talked about an aborted scheme to make Ed Clancy faster; and revealed the Beijing Olympics skinsuits have all been shredded for protection from industrial espionage. This is one of two audio podcasts from the reception. The other features Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson's transport chief, and David Brown, managing director for Surface Transport at Transport for London. Subscribe to the podcast for free in iTunes. Direct download: BrailsfordReadeAllPartyParlianmentaryReception.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:29 AM Comments[11] |
Thu, 5 February 2009 NOTE: Click on file to play the MP3 or download via iTunes here. There's always lots of great cycling content on the Quickrelease.tv audio and video podcast.At an All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group reception in the House of Commons, MPs, peers and bike big-wigs heard from Kulveer Ranger, Boris Johnson's transport chief, and David Brown, managing director for Surface Transport at Transport for London. This is one of two audio podcasts from the reception. The other features Dave Brailsford and Shanaze Reade. Comments[64] |
Thu, 29 January 2009 One-hour audio interview with David Rowe of http://www.ReadyToRide.biz and author of 'The Ride of Your Life', an ebook to help you ride further.Comments[12] |
Sat, 20 December 2008 In early December, Cyclefit of London ran the first European bicycle fitting course.Held in conjunction with SICI (Serotta International Cycling Institute), the course was run by Cyclefit directors Julian Wall and Philip Cavell. They were assisted by Dr David Hulse (knee specialist and sports physician to the Tour of Britain) and US-based Paraic McGlynn, SICI's Director of Applied Cycling Science. Six students - including trainer to the pros, Adrian Timmis - attended the three-day course. This audio programme interviews the course leaders and two of the students. Listen out for lots of advice on why a professional bike fit is such an investment: an investment that brings performance and comfort benefits. There are also little snippets of info that can squeeze out a smidgen of extra performance. For instance, if you have too much cable showing on your bike, you could be losing three watts of power. And talking about power measurement, bike fitting is now a science, it doesn't have to be subjective or down to using 'the eye'. Better bike fits can be measured by increases in power output. Comments[12] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 Last week I was at at cycle conference in London which was sponsored by
a Dutch railway company. I managed to grab a ten minute interview with
Peter Lensink of Ned Railways. He rides his Dutch roadster in London,
in a suit, and often with his girlfriend on the back rack, and he
believes cycling to work is at a tipping point.Comments[7] |
Wed, 1 October 2008 An interview with Josh Hon of Dahon and Ellen Hall of Cateye at Interbike Las Vegas 2008. Comments[5] |
Sun, 7 September 2008 Sorry for the audio quality on this file. 1. A generator on the team bus next to the Rock Racing bus came on just before the interview took place. 2. Nothing to do with this, but my digital recording device died at the same time. I therefore had to use my diddy video camera. Not perfect.Comments[15] |
Thu, 14 August 2008 Starring Goofy as Jekyll and Hyde character Mr. Walker/Mr. Wheeler. Watch it and weep.Comments[7] |
Mon, 21 July 2008 Women who cycle get given more leeway by motorists than men who cycle. This was the famous conclusion of a camera-on-a-bike study carried out two years ago by Dr. Ian Walker of the University of Bath. It got a load of media attention at the time, especially as the bearded Dr Walker donned his blonde wig for the paparazzi.<br> Dr Walker's main point was that drivers don't lump all cyclists into one group, they perceive different cyclists in different ways, giving some more room than others. <br> Dr Walker talks about his findings, and other aspects of his job, on this, the second BiketoWorkBook.com podcast, recorded earlier today. He has provided a quote for the back cover of the book, and it's all about how the risks of cycling are always far outweighed by the benefits, especially health benefits. The podcast starts on these life-enhancing benefits and then meanders into blonde wig territory. <br> My co-host, Tim Grahl, also wanted to find out whether Dr Walker knew of bike-skimming research from other countries. Comments[5] |
Mon, 14 July 2008 Carlton Reid and Tim Grahl talk with Mikael Colville-Anderson (Copenhagenize.com) and Marc Woudenberg (Amsterdamize.com) about the Bike to Work Book.Comments[8] |
Sat, 5 July 2008 Team Columbia (nee High Road) was (re)launched the day before the start of the 2008 Tour de France in Brest. MCs were Paul Sherwen and Phil Liggett.Direct download: Tour_de_France_2008_Team_Columbia_launch.m4v Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:54 AM Comments[4] |
Thu, 26 June 2008 This is a higher resolution version of a 9-minute video first published last year. It has now been optimised for watching on Apple TV. It features rushes and cutting room floor material from 'Wired to Win', the IMAX film about the Tour de France. More info here http://quickrelease.tv/?p=509Comments[8] |
Fri, 6 June 2008 Graeme Fife is the author of numerous books, including Tour de France history tomes. This bit of audio was first broadcast on the UK's Radio 4.Comments[8] |
Thu, 22 May 2008 Dan Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes Magazine in the US, is in Britain
at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle upon Tyne. I spent an
hour and a half with him earlier today. Here's a one-hour MP3 podcast
of the conversation. Also available on iTunes.<br> There are some surprises. I assumed Steve Jobs would be a fan of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, but not a bit of it. We also talked about Bike Helmet Girl, Bike Snob New York City, skiing in New England, the new iPhone, rising gas prices in America and raising healthy kids. <br> Dan and his wife have bikes stashed away in their garage but he promises he's going to dig them out when he gets home. He must be a closet cyclist: he let slip he'd recently been flicking through Dirt Rag magazine... HIGHLIGHTS <br> 21:00 "Oh, dude, everybody at Apple reads your blog." <br> 22:30 iPhone 2.0 <br> 24:35 "Jobs is a genius, I just wouldn't want to work for him, or live near him." <br> 28:40 Bike Helmet Girl <br> 33:50 Gasp, Bike Helmet Girl is not a real cyclist <br> 39:30 Stuff White People Like <br> 40:10 Bike Snob NYC <br> 41:44 Trainspotting = an English hobby <br> 44:05 Obsessive males <br> 46:50 Bike geekery <br> 47:05 Power measurement <br> 49:00 Dirt Rag magazine mention. <br> 49:15 Kona Ute or equivalent <br> 49:40 Skiing <br> 54:08 Gas at $4 a gallon <br> 59:05 The bicycle culture of Portland, Oregon Direct download: Bike_talk_with_Dan_Lyons_Fake_Steve_Jobs.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:33 PM Comments[11] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[7] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[5] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[6] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[5] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[4] |
Thu, 24 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.Comments[6] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter of CHAIN GANG, a six part magazine series
on cycling, produced for Tyne Tees TV and Yorkshire Television. One of
the show's interviewees was Jason McRoy, Britain's first truly global
MTB superstar. This extract contains footage - with permission of Tyne
Tees and Rose McRoy - of Jason more than a year before he starred in
the famous MBUK video, Dirt. Unbelievably, Jason died in 1995 but his
memory lives on...Comments[5] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 In 1994 I was the presenter of CHAIN GANG, a six part magazine series
on cycling, produced for Tyne Tees TV and Yorkshire Television. One of
the show's interviewees was Jason McRoy, Britain's first truly global
MTB superstar. This extract contains footage - with permission of Tyne
Tees and Rose McRoy - of Jason more than a year before he starred in
the famous MBUK video, Dirt. Unbelievably, Jason died in 1995 but his
memory lives on...Comments[5] |
Wed, 2 April 2008 This is the bike music created for the Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners video. Enjoy.Comments[1] |
Wed, 2 April 2008 This is the iPod and video media player version of the Bicycle Anatomy video, with 'bespoke' music made from twanging bikes. A higher res version for Apple TV is also available, as is an iPhone ringtone.Comments[4] |
Tue, 1 April 2008 This is a five minute video which lovingly zooms into bike parts, and names them. "Want to know your dropout from your downtube? And your seat collar from your seatpost? Watch this guide and you'l be talking bike in 5 minutes." The soundtrack was made using bike parts (spokes, gear shifting, disc brake rotor twanging),
recorded in my garage and then made into music by Greg Johnston. http://www.quickrelease.tvComments[5] |
Tue, 1 April 2008 Load this bike-themed ringtone to your iPhone. The sounds are all genuine bike parts (spokes, gear shifting, disc brake rotor twanging), recorded in my garage and then made into music by Greg Johnston. A full, 5-minute version of the music is on a 'Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners' video loaded to this podcast, and also available on www.quickrelease.tvComments[4] |
Tue, 19 February 2008 ![]() Comments[9] |
Thu, 10 January 2008 Audio and interviews from 8th January launch of Team Halfords Bikehut. Audio features interviews with Chris Boardman (talking about new elite, time trial frame etc) and Paul McClenaghan on Halfords, plus the press conference speeches of Nicole Cooke and Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling.Comments[5] |
Thu, 10 January 2008 At London Zoo, with Nicole Cooke, Rob hayles and Chris Boardman.Comments[5] |
Wed, 14 November 2007 Interview with David Arthur, senior engineer at Gates Corporation, and Michael Bonney of Orange Bikes.Comments[8] |
Tue, 30 October 2007 25-minute video news show broadcast via Cycling.tv at Interbike, Las Vegas, 2007. Host: Carlton Reid. Guests: David Bernstein of The Fredcast, Uwe Weissflog; Interbike's European PR officer; John Denson and Allen Richburg MD of Serfas. Topics: the growing popularity of urban cycling in the US and the UK, plus the Serfas electronic saddle testing units for bike shops.Comments[4] |
Fri, 12 October 2007 Mick Jagger's bike. Disco Stu. Charge's Trainspotting-style kitchenette. Best British bike show for years. Here's a tiny (!) selection of 78 pix. Comments[5] |
Mon, 1 October 2007 After the end of Outdoor Demo Day Two at Interbike I hitched a lift back to Vegas with German bike designer Marcus Storck. While his SUV was getting a flat fixed, I grabbed an interview. There's all the expected bits about high modulus carbon fibre, but I most loved Herr Storck's family background. The Storck family have long been steeped in bike culture...Comments[5] |
Fri, 21 September 2007 Orange & Gates Corp.Comments[8] |
Thu, 13 September 2007 Spot and Gates. Belt drives for bikes. See BikeBiz.com.Comments[5] |
Fri, 17 August 2007 This was the seventh
Phil and Friends Challenge Ride, led by Phil Liggett, the 'voice of
cycling'. The ride takes place in the Peak District each year and
benefits the CTC Charitible Trust.Comments[9] |
Tue, 7 August 2007 In 2006, the design competition Reinventing the Bike Shed commissioned a video short on how bike thieves operate. This animated short was placed on the competition website in Real format but here it is in MP4 format.The short was produced by design and research company Bold Creative of London. Greg Villalobos, Creative Director of Bold Creative, said: "We managed to track down a thief willing to spill the beans and set an animated illustration to his words." http://www.reinventingthebikeshed.com/ http://www.boldcreative.co.uk Comments[8] |
Fri, 3 August 2007 "I abhor the Barrattification of Britain, this defacing of green and brownfield sites by identikit boxes...Let’s plan new-builds with variation, greenery, ecology and community in mind."WAYNE HEMINGWAY The Independent, April 2001 Following the publication of this article, property development company George Wimpey called Wayne Hemingway's bluff. Would he and his wife Gerardine, the other half of iconic 1980s clothing brand Red or Dead, help design a new housing development in Gateshead? The Staiths South Bank was the result. It's Britain's biggest HomeZone and it now has a bike pool facility for residents. HomeZones aim to promote a more balanced relationship between pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. Rather than prioritising cars, they encourage environments where the spaces between the houses are safe for children to play and for adults to meet their neighbours. George Wimpey North East is hoping to boost the number of residents who cycle with the introduction of the Cycle@Staiths Initiative, launched on Wednesday by Hemingway. This is a pool of ten bikes for residents’ use. The bikes are free to use. Every household has also been supplied with a £57.50 Halfords voucher to spend on bike kit. Comments[8] |
Mon, 30 July 2007 The Paul Hogan Show was aired in the mid-1980s. This clip features a woman cyclist in tight shorts distracting blokes in a sub-Benny Hill-style. Trivia: the woman who gets earth in her bag is Jason Donovan's mum.Comments[6] |
Fri, 27 July 2007 A TV debate on the latest Tour de France debacle. This debate was shown on the France24 English-language news channel, Thursday 26th July. www.france24.com Andrea Sanke, France24 Andreas Evagora, deputy head of news, Eurosport, Paris Philip Turle, journalist, Radio France 1 Carlton Reid, editor, BikeBiz.com Danny Nelisson, former Tour de France rider, Eurosport Benelux commentator Comments[8] |
Sat, 21 July 2007 Every cyclist needs to eat. And lots, too. But, for some, this can sometimes come with a weight penalty...Watch this animated short from 13-year old Shadow Scythe, the son of The Fat Cyclist. www.fatcyclist.comComments[3] |
Thu, 19 July 2007 Is this the weirdest moment of the '07 Tour so far? A weighty Golden Labrador waddles in front of T-Mobile's Marcus Burghardt. Upon impact the rider's wheel folds, and the dog walks away, nonplussed. It happened on Stage Nine and is worth watching again and again.Comments[3] |
Thu, 12 July 2007 From London to Rugby by train; Warwickshire by bicycle, May 1955. This British Transport Films 15-minute short is snapshot of a different England. CTC members go on group rides via a 'cyclists' special' train.Comments[4] |
Wed, 11 July 2007 What a lovely bloke!Just before the jersey ceremony after the London prologue, my kids caught up with the Tour director and asked him for his autograph. He could have refused. He could have called security. He could have signed, but vacantly, robot-like. Instead, he took the time to get down to the kids' level, asked them their names, personalised the signatures, and chatted about his own young daughter. I was impressed. Comments[4] |
Mon, 9 July 2007 It was the mutual admiration society as the English fashion designer met the Scottish pro cyclist before the London prologue of the 2007 Tour de France.Paul Smith is hugely into cycling and his company recently partnered with Rapha to produce an ultra-expensive merino wool jersey to celebrate the Grand Depart from Londres. Incidentally, following David Millar’s long breakaway during yesterday’s London-to-Canterbury stage it turns out the planet will be the richer. The Saunier Duval-Prodir team has pledged to plant trees in Mali: one tree per escape-kilometer. Millar therefore earned 150 trees for Africa yesterday. Comments[4] |
Fri, 6 July 2007 ‘The voice of cycling’ can be seen on this (shonky) video shot at County Hall, London, on Thursday 5th July.Sorry about the sound quality and the lack of a light: the digital recorder and the spotlight died on me as I was about to do the interview. Phil Liggett was one of the guests at the opening of photographer Graham Watson’s exhibition of Tour photographs. The great and the good of cycling were there. So was Pat McQuaid of the UCI. I asked Phil about his tip for the ‘GC’ winner (GC = general classification, ie yellow jersey). I also asked for Phil’s thought’s on a lack of a No. 1 dossard. Floyd Landis has almost been written out of the Tour’s history books, and Phil’s not impressed… There will be more Quickrelease.tv video podcasts of the Tour de France in London over the next few days, thanks to the support of Ultimatepursuits.co.uk. Comments[6] |
Sat, 30 June 2007 As mentioned previously, Hovis has ponied up £1.5m to sponsor the London Freewheel ride. In the 1990s the bread brand supported the National Byway with £500,000. But the support goes back further... In 1900 Hovis produced a cycling map series at a scale of 5 miles to 1 inch. The maps were published by G Philip and Son, for the Hovis Bread Flour Co, Macclesfield, Cheshire, and the co-sponsor was the Cycling Components Mfring Co, Birmingham. This series continued for 25+ years. In 1973, Hovis returned to its roots with what became one of the all-time classic TV adverts, a delivery boy freewheeling down a cobbled northern hill. In fact, the ad was shot on Gold Hill of Shaftesbury, Dorset. The director was (Sir) Ridley Scott. He later went on to direct Bladerunner, Alien, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator. However, the Geordie director's first film was 'Boy and Bicycle' (1965), starring Scott's father and Tony Scott, his brother. This was shot on a budget of £65 using a 16mm cine-camera, borrowed from the Royal College of Art in London, where Scott was a student. The film follows a boy as he decides to play truant and visits various locations around a northern seaside town on his bicycle. The film was on YoueTube last year but has been taken down for copyright reasons. It can be found on the DVD of Scott's first commercial movie, The Duellists. Scott's bike advert was once voted the favourite advertisement of all time. The original boy on the bike, Carl Barlow, then 13, is now a 48-year-old fireman. He said: "It was pure fate that I got the part as the Hovis boy. I was down to the last three, and it turned out that one of the two boys couldn't ride a bike, and the other wouldn't cut his hair into the pudding bowl style - it was the Seventies after all. As the only boy who could ride a bike and would cut his hair, I got the part." The ad is also famous for its soundtrack. In Britain at least, Dvorak's 'New World' symphony - rearranged for brass - says 'Hovis' and 'good, plain Northern values.' Like many classic adverts of the 1970s, the Hovis 'Bike' advert was produced by iconic advertising agency Collett Dickenson Pearce & Partners. Comments[5] |
Fri, 29 June 2007 VIDEO: Aquarel pompier soaks the crowds. For Apple TV and iPods. The riders in the Tour de France whizz past at speed. But it's a spectacle all day long and it starts with the passing of the 'caravane publicitaire', a collection of 220 promo vehicles from which 11 million freebies will be disgorged The publicity caravan is a mobile carnival, with dancers, 12-ft motorised tea-pots and Aquarel 'firemen' who hose the crowd with high-pressure jets of cold water. London has never seen anything like it! Here's what will be handed out over the three weeks of Le Tour: 1 million bottles of Aquarel water 1 million Haribo sweets 600,000 Bouygues Telecom CDs 500,000 SeaFrance pens 400,000 Pik’Croq and Vache Qui Rit samples 300,000 Etap Hotel luminous key rings 200,000 Caisse d’Epargne key rings 15,000 Transport for London bracelets Some of the products – such as the TfL bracelets – are specific to London, and not all of the France-specific freebies will be seen in London. Many of the vehicles and promotional floats are supplied by Ideactif, France’s leading 'experiential' agency. The agency has just opened an office in London. Ideactif has designed and will be operating experiential road shows for nine brands in this year's caravane publicitaire. "Each brand’s experiential event will take place on spectacular and interactive vehicles with theatrical and magical characters and sets," says Marine de Mascarel, UK sales executive for Ideactif. The Ideactif brands are: Nestlé Aquarel, Caisse d’Epargne, Vache Qui Rit/Laughing Cow, Nesquick, Transport For London, SeaFrance, Etap Hotel-Accor, Bouygues Telecom and Haribo. http://www.ideactif.co.uk Comments[6] |
Thu, 28 June 2007 The washing/lubing video produced for Weldtite is the most popular of the Quickrelease.tv videos on YouTube. It's had nearly 20,000 views. By popular demand here is the Apple TV version of the video. All the 'basic bicycle maintenance' videos can be found at http://uk.youtube.com/group/bicyclemaintenanceComments[6] |
Fri, 15 June 2007 There's a lo-res clip of this trailer on YouTube, posted by MGM, but here's a more hi-res version. Watch out for more clips from the movie on Quickrelease.tvComments[5] |
Thu, 14 June 2007 Last year the CTC Charitible Trust won a grant of £295,000 from Defra’s Tomorrow’s Climate Today’s Challenge programme to produce and distribute a cinema advert extoling the virtues of cycling as a means to tackle climage change.The 60-second ad will have its premiere at a special screening at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square, London on Monday 18th June. The ad will be followed by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. 'Cycle Hero' will be shown in cinemas across the UK from June 30th for six weeks, reaching an estimated audience of over 3 million people. There's lots of background info on the advert at CycleHero.com. The advert stars American actress Genevieve Love Lake as the Cycle Hero. She lives, works and cycles in London. She said: "I am a keen cyclist and it was great to film the cycling scenes along with the other stars of the ad and the hundreds of cycling extras. As a model and actress I like to keep fit, so knowing I can count calories while counting carbon helps me feel a whole lot better. Knowing that simple - and fun - things like cycling can really make a difference in tackling global warming is so cool." Comments[7] |
Fri, 8 June 2007 Thomas Edison, the American inventor and businessman who developed key devices such as the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb*, also worked on an early motion picture camera, the Kinetograph.More than 300 of his early films survive, starting with a camera test dated to 1891. The clip above of a trick cyclist riding a fixed wheel bike was shot in 1899 by the Edison Manufacturing Co. It's also the first moving pictures of a ‘BMX bar-spin’. This is a longer version of the YouTube clip embedded on http://www.Quickrelease.tv . It includes a second helping of the 1899 clip, set to 'No cure' by Pain Factor, available from http://www.magnatune.com * Joseph Swann of Newcastle on Tyne, my home town, invented the first light bulb. Edison patented his a year after Swann and had to later withdraw his US patent. PODCAST SPONSOR: Condor Cycles, London, http://www.condorcycles.com Comments[3] |
Thu, 31 May 2007 THE POWER OF BICYCLES is a short film that tells the World Bicycle
Relief story and highlights the work being done in the African nation
of Zambia to put 26,000 bicycles in the hands of volunteer,
community-based HIV/AIDS care workers.Comments[2] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 This is the promo video shown at the official launch of the Grand Depart 2007 which took place on 9th February 2006. The short movie was produced for Transport for London. Comments[6] |
Wed, 30 May 2007 With the Tour de France due to kick off in London in just a few weeks, here's a re-issue of the Quickrelease.tv podcast from the official press launch of the Grand Depart 2007.The piece was originally broadcast on 9th February 2006 (with a slightly different intro). The podcast features interviews of Phil Liggett; author and rock legend Johnny Green; Olympic gold medallist Chris Boardman; CTC chair Kevin Mayne, and a bunch of bike journalists. Comments[5] |
Fri, 18 May 2007 The National Cycling Forum - organised by Cycling England - took place in London on 15th May.Speakers in this audio include: Gary Shipp, Bike It officer Roger Geffen, campaings manager for CTC Christian Wolmar, Cycling England board member and transoirt journalist John Mills, Coaching, Education and Development Director of British Cycling Colin Langdo, MD of Cycling Solutions, a cycle training provider on Merseyside Comments[5] |
Thu, 10 May 2007 Here are some 'rushes' from the IMAX movie with the production name of 'Brainpower' but which morphed into 'Wired to Win' when it was released to IMAX cinemas last year. The re-naming – and extensive reshooting of scenes – was to accommodate the removal of Tyler Hamilton from the movie. At the time he was embroiled in a drugs hearing, which he later lost. The rushes footage contains movie editing timecodes and an original score. More info at http://quickrelease.tv/?p=64 Comments[4] |
Wed, 9 May 2007 At the Taipei Cycle
trade show, Trek president John Burke gave an inspiring talk about why
the bicycle industry should divert cash from marketing and R&D to
help advocates and politicians create a 'bicycle friendly world'.Comments[3] |
Tue, 8 May 2007 Here's the Quickrelease.tv video from the Nissan Qashqai Urban Challenge Freeride Event held on 4-5th May in Newcastle upon Tyne. The two-day event was won by Darren 'Bearclaw' Berrecloth of Canada. He won 8000 Euros in the process and will be buying a boat with his winnings. Twenty five invited riders took part in the event - including Kyle Strait, Andreu Lacondeguy, Gee Atherton (who knew he could 360?) and Christopher Hatton – and there were an estimated 10,000 spectators thronging Times Square, the central piazza at the Centre for Life. Check out the video for Hatton's attempted 360-tailwhip off of the drop, and his run down the ramp, nearly wiping me out... Berrecloth won by spinning off the start ramp, tailwhipping the step-up and doing a 360 off the satellite dish straight into a 360-table off the final ramp, close to the double-helix statue. 1. Darren Berrecloth 2. Paul Basagoitia 3. Kyle Strait 4. Ben Boyko 5. Christopher Hatton 6. Grant Fielder 7. Amir Kabbani 8. Greg Watts 9. Gee Atherton 10.Andreu Lacondeguy 11.Brandon Semenuk 12.Lance McDermott Comments[4] |
Mon, 30 April 2007 This is a hi-res, iPod-friendly version of a 15-minute movie that's available on www.cycling.nl The film features lots of happy cyclists from the Netherlands, Denmark and Colombia, and shows how creating a bicycle-friendly city is the civilised thing to do. Scripted by Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá and the poster-child for city-wide bicycle advocacy, the movie was produced by the Netherlands-based Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE). It was made in 2004 and received a financial contribution from the Dutch Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS). Shimano sponsored the CD distribution of the movie. These CDs are handed out at global cycle campaigning events. www.Quickrelease.tv received permission to broadcast the film from I-CE. Comments[5] |
Fri, 20 April 2007 This is a six-minute video podcast of Revolution 14, staged at Manchester velodrome in November 2006. It features the dulcet tones of Phil Liggett and stars David Millar and Gilberto Simoni.Comments[4] |
Wed, 18 April 2007 The Guardian's cycling
correspondent MATT SEATON gave the keynote speech at 'Marketing and
Promoting Cycling', a conference at the University of Bolton on 3rd
April 2007. What are Seaton's views on Tory leader David Cameron and
jumping red lights? FROM http://www.quickrelease.tv Comments[5] |
Sat, 30 December 2006 Tour de France commentator Phil Liggett says he’s skeptical about the whole Floyd Landis doping scandal. There are anomalies, he says, and the French lab at the centre of the scandal is not “scrupulous�. First broadcast 15th August 2006. Comments[7] |
In October I rode coast-to-coast across Italy with US bike holiday company Ciclismo Classico. Dang, it was unseasonably cold, but still a great journey. Enjoy this six minute video record of the trip.

