12 mph politics - the conversation

Thank you to the wonderful people at TheatreDelicatessen for hosting us and keeping their bar open, to Ross Fairgrieve for the pro bono filming & to the Tedworth Trust for supporting this series on openDemocracy.

The list below provides jump links to specific points in the video

Coarse jump-links

• INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE
• SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD
• HOSPITALITY
• POVERTY
• GLOBALISATION
• OPTIMISM

Fine-grain jump-links

• INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE
• early relationship to bike
• Tour de France Early long distance riding
• SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD
• Kath question - Julian's ambivalence
• Toughness of ride Not caring about record Yet obsession with record
• Julian's answer
• "The world gone wrong principles"
• TCP - reclaiming the record
• Question about money and principles
• Kath - motivation, physical exertion and mental states
• The life lessons of climbing mountains & going slowly Vulnerability
• Going up a hill and camaraderie of other cyclist
• HOSPITALITY
• TCP - racist jokes & juxtaposition
• Strangers in the USA
• What do people want to know when they meet you?
• Fear
• SoG on racism and hospitality
• Jokes to make people less afraid Honour ethic - hospitality, traditionalism and racism
• Kindness and risk & how much you should expose yourself to
• Racism -
• More on race
• TCP Risk - threat or vulnerability? The strength of the weak
• Hospitality in face of language barrier - how does it work?
• China, Chian, helpfulness Kazakhstan
• POVERTY
• TCP - broadening horizons
• Individualism of the record and solidarity - tension
• Humility of travelling by bicycle
• Any negative impacts on people along the way?
• positive impacts
• GLOBALISATION
• China trucks and pigs
• TCP - Chinese Prometheanism & what kind of globalisation
• Globalisation & scene in Spanish brothel
• Borders and population movements
• Did Chinese people have any sense of unfreedoms?
• Global brands
• KFC or KFC
• OPTIMISM
• Adventure hard-on, commodified hope
• Chinese boy episode
• 2 types of hope
• Breaking the record to protest the spirit the record had been broken in
• TCP - Numbers, quantification and doing it the right way
• This is not for charity
• Revolutionary versus incremental projects