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October Update from Yate Community Bike Hub

September has come and gone and boy has it been a busy one!

Coming up this month: we have the last chance to grab a space on our Rusty Riders sessions before they pause until next spring, an outing to Chipping Sodbury Parkrun, our ever-popular maintenance courses and a Halloween Bike Ride! Read on for details and tell all your friends!

A plea from the core team: We rely entirely on volunteers to continue the work of the Hub and are always looking for new team members. You’ll be welcomed with open arms (and all the tea and biscuits you like!) if you could give a few hours of your time to helping us each month. We have a surprising range of roles: as well as fixing bikes and running events to encourage cycling, we are currently looking for help with customer service during open hub, bike library bookings, cycling champion with schools and businesses, project evaluation, comms and social media. If you or someone you know has talent, enthusiasm and a little time to spare we want you on our team! Please get in touch via yatecommunitybikehub@gmail.com

Love, peace and bicycle grease,

Rebecca & the YCBH Core Team


PS You can find all our links, including our socials, on linktree

New workshop floor!

Celebrating cycle to school week with a twist…

Chris Strawson of The Ridge Juniors said, “We conducted a survey of staff across both schools last year and a common theme was a willingness to cycle to work but a lack of decent equipment to make it possible.  With the successful grant application and the help of the Bike Hub, we now have 4 full sets of everything we need to allow more staff to leave their cars at home and cycle to work.”

If you know a business or school that would like to offer something similar for their staff, please get them to drop the Hub a line. We’d love to help!

Bike to Parkrun (new date!)

Stolen bike returned to owner with help of Hub

Bike thefts are the pits and there are plenty of opportunist and prepared thieves out there. Cycling UK have a great page of general tips and a detailed How-To for locking your bike. I know that many of our newsletter readers will know these tips already but with thefts seemingly on the rise locally, it might be a good time to share your wisdom.

Finally if your bike is stolen you have a much better chance of being reunited with it if it is on the Bike Register. You can log it yourself or come to the free bike marking session run by Avon and Somerset Police on Saturday 12th Oct from 10-12.

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