Bike Tales - Stories from the cycling community

Mark Simmons is a Brit who spent many years in Canada. When he returned to the UK he was looking for somewhere to live that was bikeable and he fell in love with Chichester.

We chat about Canada (and more specifically Vancouver) and what Chichester can learn about embracing active travel.

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Mark's website BottsBikesBits.com

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Ruth Speed hadn't done much other than childhood cycling and a couple of days on a bike in Milan until a year ago, but next month she is taking part in the gruelling L'Étape du Tour scaling three mountains and 100 miles!

I talk to her about what prompted her great challenge and about how she thinks the roads around Chichester could be improved to encourage people and women in particular to get on a bike more often.

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In this episode, we meet Carley Sitwell & Louise Goldsmith who have been brought together by their love of cycling, their concern for the environment and a campaign to reinstate a landmark on one of Chichester’s most popular walking and cycling routes

We hear about their adventures on bikes, why Centurion Way is so important to them and the strange obstacle that has stood in the way of getting the landmark back 

http://centurionway.org.uk/farrington-archway

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Mark Record is a cycling campaigner with creative ideas. He's a science technician at the local college and he created a bicycle-powered karaoke machine to inspire the students and show them the power of bikes and science.

His big ideas also extend outside the classroom to the local cycling advocacy group Chicycle and to thinking about big ideas for the future of transport in Chichester

Chicycle http://chicycle.co.uk/

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Matt Jolly is a personal fitness instructor who lives in the centre of Chichester. He's always on his bike or getting about by foot and says it's something that was deeply ingrained in him from an early age. He tells us how bikes brought him freedom, adventure and a career and discusses getting dragged into online culture wars. 

Map...

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This week we’re on the quest to discover what happened to the cycle highway which was due to be built on the A259 west of Chichester linking the city with the Hampshire town of Emsworth. I speak to Gabby Adams who lives on the road. She has some surprising information about what went wrong and I hear about her own pandemic-related decisions and how she plans to get the most out of her bikes in the future.

Centurion Way

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure-recreation-and-community/walking-horse-riding-and-cycling/centurion-way-railway-path/

Chemroute

http://chicycle.co.uk/chemroute

http://chemroute.uk/

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Sarah Sharp is a local councillor, campaigner and sustainable transport advocate. She moved to Chichester in 1999 and lives in the city centre. She was inspired to start campaigning when her daughter moved to senior school, but it's not been an easy journey

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Season 2 launches on May 5th* and this time we are n the UK looking at my home city on England's south coast and discovering what is holding it back from becoming a cycling city 

*Launch date delayed due to pre-election reporting constraints in Chichester

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This final episode of our first season covers the story of Gabe and his family over several months as they leave Ottawa for a new life with their Babooe Mini cargo bike in the Northwest Territories. We find out how cycling in Fort Smith matched up to expectations and the trials and challenges of such a big move.

Release of this episode was delayed by several weeks at the request of Gabe and his family, it should become clear when you listen why. I am very grateful to them for allowing me to document this chapter of their lives.

Gabe is on Twitter here https://twitter.com/gabesimages

Gabe's photography website https://gabesimages.com/

Bike Tales explores the people and places that make Ottawa one of North America's top cycling cities.

This series of short audio portraits is produced by Clare Mansell at storysolutions.net 

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In this penultimate episode of the season we catch up with guests I've spoken to previously and I ask them one question: If they had one day to themselves and they could cycle anywhere in Ottawa, where would they go? The answers are enlightening and there is something for everyone whether you are new to the city or an old hand.

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Bike Tales explores the people and places that make Ottawa one of North America's top cycling cities.

This series of short audio portraits is produced by Clare Mansell at storysolutions.net 

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