UK Documentary looking for 'Extreme' Cycle Commuters

[Nathan Lomax-Cooke]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Channel 5 documentary series about 'extreme commuting', we've been looking at people who fly, drive, get a train, and my thoughts have recently turned to the bike! Does anyone on here do a very long / interesting dare I say it ........... Extreme! Bike journey to work everyday? Do you cross the South Downs? Brave endless gales and downpours? Perhaps you cross a mountain to get somewhere regularly? Or do you just cycle a LONG way?

I'd love to hear from you, and the bike a place in our series, probably looking for UK / Western Europe only at this point.

roadsandcommutes@stv.tv

Many thanks,

Nathan Lomax-Cooke
Assistant Producer - STV London

 

[DCLane]

Calling @Supersuperleeds @gaz @ianrauk Alien8 and others.

My commuting miles seem tiny by comparison of 10-30 miles each way.

 

[ianrauk]

Calling @Supersuperleeds @gaz @ianrauk @Alient8 and others.

My commuting miles seem tiny by comparison of 10-30 miles each way.

LOL, I have no desire to have my mush on TV

 

[downfader]

Nathan, please give us absolute assurance that this wont turn into more cyclist-baiting on the telly? Some of us have become a little distrustful of the way the media portray cycling...

 

[gaz]

I only cycle a small 15 miles into work, through central london each day. @Nathan Lomax-Cooke if you want to use some of my footage or interview me, then base cost for footage is £30 a second and costs for an interview is additional.

 

[fossyant]

Kerching..

 

[junglegusset]

I reckon commuting through most major British cities in rush hour is pretty extreme, even for only a few miles. Don't think my seven miles each way down a canal towpath cuts it really.... Unless I stop at the pub, then it can all get a bit sick, radical and sometimes a bit awesome.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

@Nathan Lomax-Cooke Have you approached other forums? One I used to visit has a lad who cycles a large part of the black isle in Scotland each day. He may be full of rose food but tells it as a long slog of a ride.

 

[Nathan Lomax-Cooke]

Nathan, please give us absolute assurance that this wont turn into more cyclist-baiting on the telly? Some of us have become a little distrustful of the way the media portray cycling...

Certainly no cycle bashing here, just looking at people's journeys to work. I'm a cyclist myself (8 miles through central london everyday, not that impressive I know) but I certainly wouldn't want to condone 'cycle baiting'.

N

 

[Nathan Lomax-Cooke]

@Nathan Lomax-Cooke Have you approached other forums? One I used to visit has a lad who cycles a large part of the black isle in Scotland each day. He may be full of rose food but tells it as a long slog of a ride.

Hiya, do you know the forum in question? Sounds like what we're up for.

N

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Calling @Supersuperleeds @gaz @ianrauk Alien8 and others.

My commuting miles seem tiny by comparison of 10-30 miles each way.

Thanks, but I'm with @ianrauk on this one. Anyway I don't see my commute as extreme

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Hiya, do you know the forum in question? Sounds like what we're up for.

N

Hi have a look for 'meanredspider' on Bikeradar. its been quite a while since I was on there though, he may have moved on or changed name.

 

[mangid]

This time of the year with me it would be 2.5 hours of dark dimly lit wet road. Possibly the British equivalent of of Norwegian Slow TV ?

 

[classic33]

Hi have a look for 'meanredspider' on Bikeradar. its been quite a while since I was on there though, he may have moved on or changed name.

Search is down, the site overloaded last week

 

[classic33]

What would be classed as extreme though?