Girls and women of Manchester! Join many others to make history! Platt Fields Bike Hub are organising a mass bicycle ride on 19th March. We are inviting as many babies, girls and women together as possible to enjoy a slow and social ride around Alexandra Park. Platt Fields Bike Hub will be organising one of…
What is the Big Bike Revival? Check out our previous blog to find out! Know all about it? Please read on! Our targets for this leg of the BBR were about 5 times more ambitious than the last stretch back in October, but that’s the way we like to challenge ourselves here in Platt Fields…
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WELCOME TO PLATT FIELDS BIKE HUB’S BIG BIKE REVIVAL : Event #1 Join us on 31st May from 1-4pm at Platt Fields Bike Hub for an full afternoon of bicycle splendour! As promised, please see our confirmed list of activities, workshops & offerings to YOU, the wonderful public! Free bike servicing with parts provided* Bike washing…
JOIN US in 1/2 term week for a family friendly day of free bike servicing, games and a short ride to the Fallowfield Loop! As part of the Big Bike Revival festival, the team at Platt Fields Bike Hub will be offering their services for free to families attending the event. 11-1pm – will be…
As a whole-hearted community bike project, we celebrate welcoming groups of people from across the board; and our humble scrappy abode never fails to help encourage people into pedalling – but you can imagine our thrill, our delight and [slight] fright when we found out our proposal to host the national press launch for CTC’s…
We are D E L I G H T E D to report that we have been awarded some funds from CTC [national cycling charity] to play a sturdy role in the approaching national campaign – The Big Bike Revival. Watch out – the whole country – as there are set to be hundreds of free community cycling…
Join us for some SERIOUS celebrating on 8th March 2015. 1-4pm 1. Holi Festival of Colour – wear a white t-shirt or jump suit and be prepared to be covered in wondrous different shades of pigment [if you enter the colour circle]. We are teaming up with the Indian Association who will be bringing the…
On a typically grey and drizzly morning in Stockport, out embarked a team of eclectic cyclists – venturing on their first community cycle club ride. With sparkling freshly trained new Ride Leaders showing us the way we side lined the hectic beginnings of Saturday shopping bumper-to-bumper traffic and disappeared into the lush urban wilderness. A…
It’s been a while since most of us were enjoying those enriching exciting, young times of student life – so we had a plunge into their world to relive those sacred times but most importantly to shout about our new project. It took a few conversations to get over the fact that they didn’t know…
A couple of our Hub members are also National Standard Bike Instructors so here’s where the exciting overlap in bike provisions occurs. Transport for Greater Manchester are currently running a huge campaign across all 10 boroughs to dramatically increase volumes of everyday cyclists. They have funding to provide a plethora of free training for everyone –…