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Which is the best song about cycling? Help decide the road.cc People's Choice

Tell us your favourite tune about bikes or riding
by John Stevenson
Wed, Jun 22, 2016 11:47
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What's the best song about bikes or cycling? Tell us in this week's People's Choice poll.

Sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and cycling? Ever since Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) popular songwriters from Pink Floyd to Lily Allen have featured bikes and cycling in their songs. Some have been irredeemably naff, some are considered classics. What’s your favourite cycling tune?

Here's your chance to tell us.

Here's how it works:

  • Post a comment to nominate a song. Check it hasn't already been nominated. Add a link to the song wherever you can – from YouTube, say.
  • Like a comment to vote for that song. 
  • One comment per song. Any multiple comments will be deleted and their likes will not count towards a song's score. The first nomination will be the one that is counted.
  • One song per comment. Otherwise the voting doesn't make any sense.
  • Maximum 30 nominations per award. Once we hit 30 nominations we will close the nomination process.
  • All votes will be counted up until the closing date. Votes after this may appear but will not be counted.
  • We reserve the right to remove any comment at our sole discretion.
  • Closing date is 10am, Wednesday, June 29.

Over to you!

people's choice
John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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bendip | 8 years ago
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Moondog Jr.. Tv song.. Only a slight cycling connection in the song/promo clip..it's from an album called .."Everyday I Wear A Greasy Black Feather On My Hat" which i thoroughly recommend..particularly to deus/soulwax fans 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOZRir8gBc

 

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Tteed | 8 years ago
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Red Hot Chili Peppers I love these guys so much, Bicycle Song this track is timeless hit.

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CyclingJudy | 3 years ago
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If you have been campaigning to get a cycle path built or to try and stop a cycle lane from being ripped out, or to keep an LTN, this song is for you.

https://youtu.be/jqrDe1tcYJ4

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The Ribbler | 3 years ago
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Can’t see ‘Tour De France’ by Kraftwerk ? Brilliant for long training sessions !

saw them live a few years back before Florian Schneider died, brilliant and the godfathers of electronica.

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The Ribbler | 3 years ago
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Bicycle Race from the Queen Album ‘Jazz ‘ ??

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CyclingJudy | 3 years ago
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Freewheeling (there's nothing good as riding a bike).
https://youtu.be/9uGUgfIwp9k

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PhilRuss replied to Jimnm | 8 years ago
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Jimnm wrote:

Mungo Jerry - The Push Bike Song 

  It's called "In the Summertime", (1970) "Have a drink, have a drive--go out and see what you can find", sings Mungo Jerry.....is that a cycling song? Or rather an open invitation to drink-drivers?

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Ride2Wk replied to brooksby | 8 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

(edited to put a link in there)

Motherf-ing Bike, by the Sons of Science   1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgCqz3l33kU

As a commuter cyclist putting up with ignorance from motorists and work managment this one has to get my vote by a long shot. Not good for encouraging improved attitudes towards cycling but certainly rings a bell for city commuting.

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brooksby replied to Fifth Gear | 8 years ago
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Fifth Gear wrote:

Silver Machine by Hawkwind

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFFk3g088s

Pretty sure that's about a *motorbike*, m'kay?

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Jimnm replied to PhilRuss | 8 years ago
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PhilRuss wrote:

[[[[[ "..Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.."  So sang Mungo Jerry in 1970, in the song "In The Summertime".  Is that a good idea? No----so possibly the very WORST "cycling" song ever.

All depends what Drink refers to, it could be non alcoholic, only the song writer will know 1 it's stIll a happy tune regardless of questionable lyrics . This thread is just light hearted IMO 1

 

 

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potter.away | 8 years ago
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Look Mum, No Hands! Carter USM

Not about cycling but the title works.

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g00se | 8 years ago
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How about 'Give it to me' By ZIP/Pete Shelley?

No? It's the original version that because the 1980s Channel 4 TdF theme tune.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0gsavCgc7k

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQ3NwgbHsI

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stenmeister | 8 years ago
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Enough with trying to outdo each other with your obscure songs! It's Queen or Kraftwerk... as had already been said.

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davidcornwall | 8 years ago
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John Cale Bicycle
Shone Knife Cycling is fun

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REspada | 8 years ago
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Bartali. Short but epic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5JBSEdIe0

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REspada | 8 years ago
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Bartali. Short but epic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5JBSEdIe0

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LiamO | 8 years ago
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Katie Melua - 9 Million Bicycles. Ha ha ha! [vomit]

(there isn't a song called Bikey McBikeface is there?)

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DrRocks | 8 years ago
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Ridin' [Dirty] by Chamillionaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwJvgPJ9xw

 

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StantheVoice | 8 years ago
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Can I have a go too, but to make it more interesting, I won't look at the rules, or anyway, I'll ignore them, that way you can ignore my comment entirely from the voting. How about that?

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Looper35uk | 8 years ago
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Tour de France - Kraftwerk

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The Rake | 8 years ago
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Bike - Pink Floyd

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Chapeau92 | 8 years ago
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Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner

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Sven Van Anders | 8 years ago
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I like my bike, by Kimya Dawson?

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Sven Van Anders | 8 years ago
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Broken bicycles, by the awesome Tom Waits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L4IfVaMYh0

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Sven Van Anders | 8 years ago
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Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada?

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Sven Van Anders | 8 years ago
2 likes

Abdou theme, by Abdoujaperov?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwdpKUt0QI

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Sven Van Anders | 8 years ago
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Lilac Harry Quinn by Half Man Half Biscuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Gx0MEEIYo

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mostly | 8 years ago
8 likes

See that my bike's kept clean - Half man half biscuit.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iCimAuL9Km0

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eddyhall | 8 years ago
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Abdominal - Pedal Pusher

Former bike courier in Toronto turned rapper

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TomJ | 8 years ago
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The Acoustic Motorbike by Luka Bloom, and not just for the awesome title...

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