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roadcc peoples choiceWhich is the best song about cycling? Help decide the road.cc People's Choice
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!
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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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
Red Hot Chili Peppers I love these guys so much, Bicycle Song this track is timeless hit.
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
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.
Bicycle Race from the Queen Album ‘Jazz ‘ ??
Freewheeling (there's nothing good as riding a bike).
https://youtu.be/9uGUgfIwp9k
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?
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.
Pretty sure that's about a *motorbike*, m'kay?
All depends what Drink refers to, it could be non alcoholic, only the song writer will know
it's stIll a happy tune regardless of questionable lyrics . This thread is just light hearted IMO 
Look Mum, No Hands! Carter USM
Not about cycling but the title works.
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
Enough with trying to outdo each other with your obscure songs! It's Queen or Kraftwerk... as had already been said.
John Cale Bicycle
Shone Knife Cycling is fun
Bartali. Short but epic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5JBSEdIe0
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Bartali. Short but epic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La5JBSEdIe0
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Katie Melua - 9 Million Bicycles. Ha ha ha! [vomit]
(there isn't a song called Bikey McBikeface is there?)
Ridin' [Dirty] by Chamillionaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtwJvgPJ9xw
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?
Tour de France - Kraftwerk
Bike - Pink Floyd
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
I like my bike, by Kimya Dawson?
Broken bicycles, by the awesome Tom Waits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L4IfVaMYh0
Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada?
Abdou theme, by Abdoujaperov?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwdpKUt0QI
Lilac Harry Quinn by Half Man Half Biscuit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Gx0MEEIYo
See that my bike's kept clean - Half man half biscuit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iCimAuL9Km0
Abdominal - Pedal Pusher
Former bike courier in Toronto turned rapper
The Acoustic Motorbike by Luka Bloom, and not just for the awesome title...
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