Cycling

Taken with the idea of cycle touring, now that their kids are older, Alec Ford and his wife Alison recently spent a summer pedalling through southern Chile and a bit of Argentina. Audio

Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 31 May 2014 Audio

Ash Burgess is a super-keen mountain biking instructor teaching children and adults how to ride. Audio

Paul Macdermid is measuring the impacts of vibrations experienced by mountain bikers Audio

A cycling lobby group says if it was compulsory for drivers to keep a one metre gap when passing cyclists, roads would be safer. Audio

Paul Macdermid is measuring the impacts of vibrations experienced by mountain bikers Audio

The joy of cycling, and how sharks' mating system is based on choosy females and performance-oriented males. Audio

According to ex-pro cyclist Paul Kimmage, 86 percent of Tour de France winners over the past 40 years have been implicated in doping! He looks at the Lance Armstrong case and what's going to happen… Audio

The latest offering in the NZ Cycle Trails network - the Motu Trails, in the Bay of Plenty, which opened a couple of months ago. There are three interconnecting trails that take a rider between… Audio

Academics, town planners, and cycle advocates this week met in Hastings for the annual Walking and Cycling Conference. Jeremy Rose talks to Roger Geller about the transformation of Portland into… Audio

This week Ideas explores the growing trend towards utility cycling. Audio

The vast majority of cyclists, both in this country and abroad, do most their riding in cities and towns. So how do you create truly cycle-friendly cities? What is it about Copenhagen that sees 55… Audio