The BikeRadar Podcast

BikeRadar delve into the world of road and mountain biking to bring you the best tech content in cycling. Join the team for their weekly episodes and occasional bonus episodes.

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Our bicycle commuting top tips
With £2bn pledged for green transport in the UK following the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK, there’s great potential to get more bums on saddles when it comes to the daily commute. We therefore thought we’d share our top tips to help your cycle commute.
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Road Tech Talk | Are road e-bikes cheating?
The debate has raged for years in mountain biking, but with electric-assisted road bikes having a growing presence on the road, we debate whether they’re ‘cheating’ or just another way to get out on two wheels and enjoy the roads.
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BikeRadar Meets | Is Cycling Really Set for a G...
BikeRadar virtually meets with leading cycling and active travel journalist Laura Laker and Adam Tranter to discuss whether some good will come from the current situation in the form of more funding for cycling and more people on bikes.
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How much should you spend on your next mountain...
While it’s easy to get drawn into the assumption that you need to spend thousands on your next mountain bike, that’s not necessarily the case.Tom and Seb go through the price ranges with a few recommendations chucked in along the way.
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Bike Shorts 10 | Tech Q&A
We headed to our social channels and drummed up a dozen or so tech questions for our tech team. Warren, our Senior Road Technical Editor and Rob, our Senior Technical Editor in Chief sat (remotely!) with BikeRadar’s Technical Editor Tom.
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Bike Shorts 09 | E-Racing, is this really a thi...
The current situation has lead to mass cancellation of ‘real’ bike races, and much more prominence of cycling in the e-sport arena. Our trio of roadie-fan boys, Jack, Simon and Matthew have been tuning in, so perhaps you don't have to.
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BikeRadar Meets | Graeme Obree
Obree is one of the most unique cyclists in the world. Famous for his Hour Records on hand built bikes constructed with washing machine parts, and disrupting and aggravating the UCI’s rules and regulations. This was recorded before the C19 lockdown.
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Bike Shorts 08 | Our favourite mountain bikes
BikeRadar’s mountain bike tech team got together, thanks to the powers of online video chat, to discuss their favourite ever, and current favourite mountain bikes.
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How Jack and Joe started their cycling careers
BikeRadar’s own cycling influencers Jack and Joe are dab hands at road cycling, with a passion for the most niche of racing – hill climbs! In this podcast, they talk through the early years of their cycling lives and how they got to where they are now.
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Bike Shorts 07 | How we’re all dealing with the...
We’re a month in to the lockdown, so how are the BikeRadar team getting on when it comes to riding? From virtual group rides, to new bike builds, we’ve still got plenty going on, and more than enough to talk about!
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Road Tech Talk | Shaving weight - how to go sup...
In this Tech Talk, the guys go through the different components on a bike, discussing where's best, and where not to try and lose some weight.
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Bike Shorts 06 | Paris-Roubaix – the weird and ...
Jack and Simon discuss some of the weird and wonderful bikes used to try and tame the Pavé over the years, which ones are their favourites and the lengths the pro’s and manufacturers will apparently go to avoid simply running wider tyres.
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BikeRadar Meets | Nico Vouilloz, 10 times World...
BikeRadar sat down with ten-time World Champion Nico Vouilloz to discuss his current projects with Lapierre, his DH career, the state of mountain bike racing currently and how the French have seemed to dominate the rankings over the past couple of years.
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Bike Shorts 05 | The best-ever road bike?
Our roadie-tech gurus Simon Bromley and Matthew Allen from BikeRadar sat down with our Content Director Rob Spedding to discuss their favourite ever road bikes.
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Trail and Enduro Bike of the Year Special
After a full winter of wet and muddy testing, and then a week thrashing the top-contenders in Spain with BlackTown Trails, we’ve crowned our Trail Bike of the Year, and Enduro Bike of the Year.
36 min
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Road Bike of the Year Special
After months of testing and many hundreds of kilometres, the team from Cycling Plus and BikeRadar have crowned our Road Bike of the Year 2020. In this podcast we learn more about the contenders and eventual winner.
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Road Tech Talk | Have we reached ‘peak bike’?
We’ve had great leaps in bike tech over the years that have greatly improved our road bikes – frame materials, compact geometry, electronic groupsets and disc brakes, amongst others. But where will things go next?
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What’s the hardest mountain bike discipline?
Between the team at BikeRadar, we reckon we’ve raced pretty much every mountain bike race format going. But, what’s the toughest type of mountain bike racing you can do?
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BikeRadar Meets | Wind Tunnel Testing at the Bo...
In the autumn we headed to the Boardman Performance Centre, where they’ve built a bike-specific wind tunnel, that’s open to the public. We sat down with Barney, Head of Science and Lee, the centre's lead Physiologist.
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Have gravel bikes made Cyclocross better?
Though appearing niche from the outside, cyclocross (or CX) is enjoying a resurgence in the UK, with races attracting ever increasing numbers of participants.
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Road Tech Talk | Do road bikes really need susp...
More and more modern road bikes are being designed to incorporate suspension so Warren, Tom and Rob discuss the – surprisingly long – history of road bikes with extra cushioning.
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The things bike companies still get wrong
Bike companies, in general, do a great job when it comes to designing bikes, but Tom and Seb can’t help but think there are a few too many details that they keep getting wrong…
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BikeRadar Meets | Ian Weatherill, Hope Technolo...
Hope Technology is one of the most influential British bicycle componentry brands in the world. Ian Weatherill co-founded Hope Technology after a spell manufacturing high-end parts for the aerospace industry, and sat down with Technical Editor Tom.
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What is the hardest race in the world?
Road racing is as brutal as it comes – hard men and women pit pure strength against one and another in a bid to reach the finish line ahead of the pack. We decided to weigh in and discuss which drop-bar race format is the hardest in the world.
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Bike Shorts 04 | classic forks, high-tech manuf...
We take a quick look at the new Marzocchi Z1 Bomber Coil, the re-rise of the alloy bike, along with 3D printing and steel-infused carbon fibre, and we pay our respects to Chris Hamilton’s nether regions.
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