Sadly this is the Final Episode of the Podcast (until I find a new sponsor)! 

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SHOW NOTES

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• @jackthurston - https://twitter.com/jackthurston
• Lost Lanes - lostlanes.co.uk
• The Bike Show podcast has been running since 2005 
• Alastair Humphreys on the Bike Show - http://thebikeshow.net/alastair_humphreys_part1/
• Podcasts don't usually make money. But you have to do something that you love - that is the price of entry.
• Bike Show tries to pick up sounds and experiences - the sonic colour - from outside the studio
• There are different kinds of audio perfection
• Asking open questions is important. Ask them how they feel. Get beyond the facts into the emotion.
• Conversation ought to be structured but also feel natural
• If you let silence happen, people will fill it with something interesting
• You need to give the audience what they are interested in
• Louis Theroux podcast - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p089sfrz/episodes/downloads
• Cheryl Strayed podcast - Sugar Calling - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sugar-calling/id1505881384
• There are so many different methods of cycling.
• Cycling is a great way to interact with the environment
• raphael kraft caribbean cycling podcast - https://thebikeshow.net/raphael-krafft-reportage-on-two-wheels/
• Cycling breaks down barriers, gets you unexpected places, and you are not cut off from the world. Therefore it is a good way to have experiences.
• The bicycle is a tool to take in the world at the right pace (and at the right price)
• Jack is a touring cyclist and a utility cyclist
• Takes kids to school on the bike. Does the shopping on the bike.
• You can travel further, for less effort, than walking. It's the perfect vehicle for travelling at the speed of the land and of my mind.
• fuchsia dunlop every grain of rice - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Grain-Rice-Chinese-Cooking/dp/140880252X
• Jack's spice concoction for cycle touring - https://www.instagram.com/p/CDqv79llTaT/
• Jack takes tins of sardines, marzipan, parmesan, harissa on a bike tour
• I like a bike ride that starts and finishes at my front door
• Jack has done a lot of flying in his life, but now is repulsed by the connotations. It makes him feel queasy.
• Has committed to not flying for work
• Things (like not flying) which seem difficult to consider are actually not that hard once you do them
• There are a lot of issues related to 'adventure' that are problematic
• Adventure is a useful word for the sort of things we do - embracing the unexpected as a leisure activity
• To me 'adventure' has a lot of baggage from history
• 500 years ago adventure was the manifestation of privilege - colonial expansion right up to Edwardian's doing it for 'queen and country'
• Money, power, privilege, whiteness were the preconditions for adventure
• People doing adventure - voluntarily putting themselves in harm's way. If danger is a normal part of your life then you're probably unlikely to want to go bungee jumping
• Jack enjoys wild camping, but acknowledges that if he didn't look the way he does [white] then it would be a much more intimidating experience
• Cycling guidebooks over 100 years ago
• Wanted to make the Lost Lanes books seductive
• Make going out for a ride around London really appealing: nice photos, make it look appealing, eat oysters by the sea rather than get sweaty, evocative writing
• Living in London in the 90s Jack had to come up with stories / temptations to lure his flatmates to come out of the city and ride with him
• The book is supposed to fire up people's imaginations, and then the website has the technical details
• Emphasis of Lost Lanes is on very quite lanes and roads
• Yorkshire Wolds
• Beverley Minster
• Somerset Levels
• Samuel Palmer, artist
• What makes a good bike route? Needs a good sense of flow. You don't want all the climbing at the start/end, need different landscapes, good reveals, good vistas, hills are important for the views, try to start in interesting nice places with a train station, the sense of having been on a journey and discovering landscapes
• On a longer journey it is good to have some sort of quest involved.
• TE Lawrence cycling round castles.
• One more croissant for the road
• Nice to follow a river, or a pilgrimage route, or a droving road
• Beating the bounds
• Being a freelance writer makes financial security a worry
• I've never earned less than in my 40s
• Mr Money Mustache - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
• I don't feel that my life is any less rich because I drive a crappy car
• I like old, traditional, simple stuff
• Hallett handbuilt bicycles - http://www.halletthandbuiltcycles.com/
• I think it's really important to have something that you do is a lifelong journey. It is quite humbling
• It still feels a joy being out on the road researching his books. It's pure pleasure. The writing-up part fills him with dread and makes him feel sick.
• Maria Popova - https://www.brainpickings.org/
• English country lanes, the art of slow travel - Gareth Lovett Jones