This week on BikeLove I get to speak to Rick Smith, creator of the very cool Yehuda Moon comic strip. Based in Ohio, Rick accurately captures the most engaging aspects of cycling culture via his cartoon charcters, Yehuda, Joe and Thistle. Together with their adventures and wardrobe of customers you’re able to dip into the charming world of the Kickstand cyclery! 
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This morning I joined Alexis on Monday Breakfast for the Random Tandem. We spoke to Rupert Guinness, a Sydney journalist, who has just brought out a new book ‘What a ride’. He covers the tour from 1987 when the first Aussie competed ‘Phil Anderson’! He shares wonderful anecdotes about his experience watching the tour and has the gift of perspective.
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Fairfax probably offer the best facilities available for a working cyclist… Check out what’s on offer in the new eco building in Pyrmont!
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Sydney’s first Tweed run gets off to a stormin’ start. The best dressed ride I’ve been on for a while! Rain didn’t dampen spirits, merely added to the authenticity of the occasion. Lots of handlebar moustaches… nice!
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Being chased by a whole village!
Climbing up a mountain pass
This week I speak to Geoff Huntley about his most recent cycle touring trip to India on 18a UNICYCLE! One 36″wheel and 500kms of unforgiving roads below. He toured in a party of 6 (all unicyclists!) which included Australians, French and Canadians! Some lovely stories about how people reacted to him emerge.
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This week BikeLove chats to Brettski… a courier who has served Sydney well, he has just notched up 25 years! He first began couriering in 1984! Lycra hadn’t yet become fashionable and fax machines were not even around!! He is 45 years but looks about 20 years younger, known as the ‘buns of steel’ he has a passing resemblance to Raul Alcala…
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This week I leave the bike at home… Ever walked along the coastal park of the Royal National Park? It’s beautiful and I’d thoroughly recommend it, especially the wild, fresh water swimming holes along the way. I went this Easter and I didn’t take my camera, instead I took my audio recorder.
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Bike Porn? Never… BikeLove gets up close and personal!
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A very special BikeLove this week. This time last year I was lucky enough to watch The Tour of Flanders in Belgium. An awesome one day race that tests the brute strength of the riders. 260kms in total, the race begins from the flat low lands and then makes 15 climbs heading towards the finish at Ninove. Many parts of the race are cobblestone, big, flat, gruesome barbaric cobblestones… the kind that make you teeth jitter and arms kill.
Check out this years race this Monday 6th April
Be enthralled at some beautiful pictures that capture the grit of the race by Stephan Vanfleteren
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This week BikeLove visits London and more specifically interviews Jack Thurston from The Bike Show.
London is riding on the tide of the bicycle revolution. The number of cyclists is astounding compared to just a few years ago. If London can perform such a great turnaround, so can Sydney.
I talk to Jack about riding in London and the more recent bicycle renaissance.
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