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On Your Bike: Episode 10: Renaissance

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Episode 10: Renaissance

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - On Your Bike, Renaissance

How innovations in design and changing social tastes mean the bike is back in fashion.

Martin Ellis investigates how innovations in design and changing social tastes mean the bike is back in fashion.

The mountain bike arrives from California and coincides with a new fashion for fitness and concerns for the environment. Bikes are back in fashion for work and pleasure

Presenter: Martin Ellis

Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Martin Ellis presents a history of the bicycle

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