Bicycle Race
Queen
Fat-bottomed girls, bells and whistles · 3:03
Queen, Jazz 1978, whistles, bells
Bicycle Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Frusciante’s ode to two wheels · 3:24
RHCP, By the Way, funk-rock, bonus track
My White Bicycle
Nazareth
Tomorrow’s psychedelic pushbike, gone hard rock · 3:26
hard rock, Tomorrow cover, 1975, freakbeat
Nine Million Bicycles
Katie Melua
There are nine million, and that’s a fact · 3:15
jazz-pop, Beijing, gentle, 2005
Cycling Is Fun
Shonen Knife
Osaka pop-punk on two wheels · 2:35
Shonen Knife, 1984, cheerful, cycling
Terry Keeps His Clips On
Vivian Stanshall
Bonzo whimsy, clips and all · 3:43
English eccentric, spoken, 1981, Bonzo
It’s a Beautiful Day
The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson’s single-edit sunshine · 3:29
Beach Boys, 2012 mix, harmony, sunlit
The Pushbike Song
The Mixtures
Mungo Jerry’s pedalling cousin · 2:31
The Mixtures, 1970, singalong, bubblegum
Bike
Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett’s, and a mouse named Gerald · 3:22
Pink Floyd, Piper 1967, whimsy, unhinged
Wheel of Teal
The Moss Twins
Late-period psychedelic doo-wop, on two wheels · 3:28
doo-wop, teal, spin, the label’s own
Makhtesh
Itzik Kagan
A crater pilgrimage, reverb off iron walls · 3:45
desert, drone, crater, the label’s own
Tour de France
Kraftwerk
The peloton set to sequencers · 5:13
Kraftwerk, electronic, cycling, Düsseldorf