Where Cycling Europe goes, the BBC follows… Well, kind of. I first met Andrew Edwards of BBC Radio Leeds way back in 2014 when he interviewed me and another long-distance cyclist Tom Bruce at an event organised by Leeds’ cycling impresario Ian Street (he of Leeds Bicycle Film Club fame) called ‘Night of the Long Rides‘. (It had a great poster that subsequently inspired the covers of the ‘…on a Bike Called Reggie‘ books.) I later appeared on his radio show and then in 2018 I invited him to visit the route of the proposed Ryburn Valley Greenway. It featured on the ‘secret spaces’ portion of his weekend radio show. ‘Secret spaces’ has now been temporarily retired and replaced by ‘made in Yorkshire’. Following my own visit there, I suggested he visit Woodrup Cycles in Leeds and today…

The lovely people @woodrupcycles will feature in this weekend’s #MadeInYorkshire @BBCLeeds Saturday morning at about 8.10am. Thanks for the recommendation @CyclingEurope @allchangept

— Andrew Edwards (@RadioAndrewE) March 8, 2019

If you are reading this before 8am on March 9th, you’ll be able to listen live to the feature via the Radio Leeds page of the BBC website. It will be repeated tomorrow on Andrew’s early Sunday morning programme and then available for a month on the iPlayer. You can also read about my own visit to Woodrup Cycles last year by continuing to scroll…