Circus Street Bike: Ticket to ride
Love Your Bike Week kicks off at Circus Street Bike Hub with The Spin, bike fixing and lots more for cyclists of all levels
Caroline Lucas MP formally kicked off Brighton’s first ‘Love Your Bike Week’, starting today – a week of fun and useful bike activities, culminating in The Spin – a free family fun day on Saturday February 22, 12noon–4pm at the old market building in Circus Street, Brighton.
At an alternative Valentine’s Day Brunch in the Community Space inside the old market, Caroline Lucas MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: “The Circus Street Bike Hub is a great example of the way Brighton and Hove is showing the way on pro-cycling initiatives – I hope very much that it will help inspire more people to get on their bikes in the city.”
The Hub aims to help people get their bikes back in action, offering free maintenance services and organising events to build bike riding confidence, in a partnership between the charity Groundwork and Cathedral Group, who are the developers behind proposals to regenerate the Circus Street old market area.
During ‘Love Your Bike Week’, Groundwork volunteers will be on hand from Tuesday 18 through Friday 21 February from 11am–3pm for local people to drop in with their bikes and get free help to fix them, or learn to maintain them. Anyone who has an old, unused bike can drop it off there and it will be recycled.
There are also several fun group rides on offer, inviting people to meet at Circus Street and join up with a group to cycle to Shoreham or Saltdean. All details are at www.circusstreetbrighton.com
‘Love Your Bike Week’ culminates in The Spin, an amazing free event on 22 February 12 – 4pm, featuring stunt riders, award-winning performance artists, bike workshops, Dr Bike, the chance to tackle a bike assault course, great food stalls and more in the old market in Circus Street.
Said Martyn Evans, Creative Director of Cathedral Group, “Love Your Bike Week and our free public event on 22 February, The Spin, are going to be great fun at the same time as offering practical help to people to get back on their bikes. We hope this special week will become a fixture in Brighton’s calendar in the future.
“The Circus Street Bike Hub is a precursor to our ground-breaking cycle-friendly development proposals on the site. We are absolutely committed to encouraging pedal power and will be going one step further, giving free bikes and secure storage to all our new residents as one of many sustainable features to help make Brighton a healthier and cleaner city.”
www.circusstreetbrighton.com
