45-pages of pure, unadulterated bicycling goodness. The Bike to Work Book is aimed at getting more people commuting by bicycle. If you're already biking to work forward this PDF to any waverers or would-be bikers you may know. The sampler contains a chapter listing pretty much every known excuse for not cycling to work.

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.

An interview with Josh Hon of Dahon and Ellen Hall of Cateye at Interbike Las Vegas 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.

Starring Goofy as Jekyll and Hyde character Mr. Walker/Mr. Wheeler. Watch it and weep.

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.
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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.
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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.
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My co-host, Tim Grahl, also wanted to find out whether Dr Walker knew of bike-skimming research from other countries.

Carlton Reid and Tim Grahl talk with Mikael Colville-Anderson (Copenhagenize.com) and Marc Woudenberg (Amsterdamize.com) about the Bike to Work Book.

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.

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=509

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.

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.
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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.
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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
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21:00
"Oh, dude, everybody at Apple reads your blog."
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22:30
iPhone 2.0
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24:35
"Jobs is a genius, I just wouldn't want to work for him, or live near him."
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28:40
Bike Helmet Girl
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33:50
Gasp, Bike Helmet Girl is not a real cyclist
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39:30
Stuff White People Like 
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40:10
Bike Snob NYC
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41:44
Trainspotting = an English hobby
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44:05
Obsessive males
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46:50
Bike geekery
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47:05
Power measurement
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49:00
Dirt Rag magazine mention.
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49:15
Kona Ute or equivalent
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49:40
Skiing
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54:08
Gas at $4 a gallon
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59:05
The bicycle culture of Portland, Oregon

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

In 1994 I was the presenter on CHAIN GANG, a Tyne Tees TV magazine series on cycling. This is a segment from the archive.

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...

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...

This is the bike music created for the Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners video. Enjoy.

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.

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.tv

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.tv

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.

SMIDSY: Sorry, mate, I didn't see you. Even when smothered in LEDs? Video short of a conspicuous cyclist, set to Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker Suite.

At London Zoo, with Nicole Cooke, Rob hayles and Chris Boardman.