All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • April 21, 2014
    • BBC One

    Michael Smiley shares tales of childhood scrapes in Bangor.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • April 28, 2014
    • BBC One

    Michael Smiley tries out a white-knuckle mountain bike trail in Kilbroney Park.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • May 5, 2014
    • BBC One

    Michael Smiley enjoys a gruelling cross-country cycle in The Sperrins.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode 1

    • BBC One

    Michael Smiley takes a cycle tour of Northern Ireland. He reminisces about a Motorhead concert, speaks to artist Deepa Mann-Kler and does a time trial with Michael Hutchinson

  • S02E02 Episode 2

    • BBC One

    Smiley's back with plenty of laughs, on his bike near Carnlough with local former pro-cyclist Stephen Gallagher who helped design the Giro D'Italia route. He goes to Crossmaglen for a rare interview with one of his favourite authors, Dervla Murphy, who chats about her astonishing adventures on a bicycle. Last stop is Glaslough to meet 97-year-old Sir Jack Lesley who shares Smiley's love of dance music and clubbing.

  • S02E03 Episode 3

    • BBC One

    Smiley's back with plenty of laughs as he meets one of his favourite comedians, Kevin McAleer, and cycles the County Tyrone's country roads for a unique tour of the Beaghmore Stone Circles near Cookstown. He goes to Strabane to take part in the Cycle Against Suicide ride to Derry with Jim Breen and hears how the charity and cycling can help save lives. Smiley's cycling odyssey concludes with his biggest challenge yet - trying to cycle to the top of the steepest hill in Ireland, the Mamore Gap, alongside inspirational pedalling pensioner 74-year-old Willie-John McLaughlin.