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Gillian Russell introduces kit and app reviews, expert advice and the latest fitness news.

Gillian Russell introduces a mix of personal stories, kit and app reviews, expert advice and the latest fitness news to help listeners get the best out of their mind and body

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Personal Best: Cycling Special

Producers Suzy Beaumont and Phil Sime try their hand at tandem cycling

19/10/2015

Cycling Special

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, Cycling Special

Gillian Russell and the Personal Best team go bike crazy.

Gillian Russell and the Personal Best team go bike crazy as they look at purchasing a bike and at cycle hire schemes.

Gillian Russell and the Personal Best team are going bike crazy this week...!

John Moy, one of Personal Best's fitness volunteers, has been talking about buying a bike for years ... but it's never happened! Having decided that cycling is his route to getting fit, John visits his local bike shop to get some advice from owner Mark Maciver.

Personal Best producer Suzy Beaumont takes visually impaired colleague Phil Sime out on a tandem and discovers the freedom he feels when he's out cycling. Mareena MacRae from the Highland Blind Cycling Club talks about how their tandem project works. 

Reporter Bronwen Livingstone meets Andrew McVie and hears about his enthusiasm for one of the cycle hire schemes in Glasgow.

Instead of a tour bus, musician Richard Durrant uses his bike to commute from gig to gig, all round the UK and across the globe. He is passionate about reducing his carbon footprint and says he's fitter now then he's ever been.

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