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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Presented by Helen Pidd and produced by Francesca Panetta

The bike podcast: Rickshaws and velodromes

Mark Ames from I Bike London joins Helen Pidd in the studio to update us on how the London bike hire scheme is getting on. He thinks it's a victim of its own success and tells us a hilarious story about finding an abandoned Boris bike in Mayfair.

Bike blogger Peter Walker talks to the Guardian's Sydney correspondent Ellen Connolly about a new report questioning Australia's bike helmet laws.

Rachel Dixon from Life & style tells us about the Freecross, a gym cross-trainer on wheels.

Richard Arnold takes us on a tour around London's nearly completed Olympic velodrome and we hear from Scott Leicester from Transport for London about the cycle routes that will connect the Olympic boroughs to the site venues.

And finally, Francesca Panetta travels up to Edinburgh to try her hand as a rickshaw driver for the B-Spoke pedicab company.

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