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'Motor Mania' (1950)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:49:00 GMT

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

02 BikeToWorkBook.com show with Dr Ian Walker, Tim Grahl and Carlton Reid

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:11:00 GMT

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.

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.

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.

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

Launch of Bike to Work Book Dotcom

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:52:00 GMT

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

Tour de France 2008 Team Columbia launch

Sat, 5 Jul 2008 04:54:00 GMT

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.

Tour de France: best footage ever? Apple TV version

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:51:00 GMT

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

Cycling to Timbuktu...with Graeme Fife

Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:35:00 GMT

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.

Interview with Dan Lyons aka Fake Steve Jobs

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:33:00 GMT

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.

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.

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

21:00
"Oh, dude, everybody at Apple reads your blog."

22:30
iPhone 2.0

24:35
"Jobs is a genius, I just wouldn't want to work for him, or live near him."

28:40
Bike Helmet Girl

33:50
Gasp, Bike Helmet Girl is not a real cyclist

39:30
Stuff White People Like

40:10
Bike Snob NYC

41:44
Trainspotting = an English hobby

44:05
Obsessive males

46:50
Bike geekery

47:05
Power measurement

49:00
Dirt Rag magazine mention.

49:15
Kona Ute or equivalent

49:40
Skiing

54:08
Gas at $4 a gallon

59:05
The bicycle culture of Portland, Oregon

1 CHAIN GANG Mass v custom build, Raleigh v Dave Yates

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:32:00 GMT