 Training
How do you make cycling "cool and aspirational" to young people? Ask
Sally Haywill and Andy Doyle, founders of the excellent STA Bikes
school cycle training
project, which is based at Sir Thomas Abney primary school
and won
the 2003
LCC awards and a 2005
National Cycling Project Award. We are backing the
project 100
per cent and are very
pleased to see it being replicated in schools around the borough. Read
Sally Haywill's history
of the project.
In 2006/7 STA Bikes is
running the largest
programme of cycle training Hackney has yet seen, for both children and
adults. If you are interested in
cycle training,
see Cycle
Training Ltd or
the London
School of
Cycling. Workshop
Our twice-monthly workshop is a self-help
facility for people to repair and maintain
their own bikes with advice from resident experts. Parts at cost, tools
provided. More.... LCC stall and
Dr Bike
 We put
in an appearance at various events
through the year, chatting to
people about cycling and giving out info about LCC. One of the most
popular
activities we promote at such events is Dr Bike, where a mechanically
minded LCC person will check people's bikes over and give them a
diagnosis. It is not a repair service, but will tell people what's
wrong with their bikes and whether they are fit for the road, as well
as giving them the odd tweak here to get them running better. Dr Bike
can go to schools, festivals, etc. and is one of the most popular of
LCC's activities. If there's a Hackney event you think we should be at,
or if you'd like to arrange a Dr Bike session, get in touch and we'll
try to help! Parking
Theft is one of the biggest deterrents to cycling. If you haven't got
somewhere safe and convenient to keep your bike at your destination or
at home, you're less likely to cycle. On-street, residential,
temporary... we are working and lobbying to improve the situation. More... Scrapping the
one-way systems
We are sponsors of Look
BothWays, a community-driven lobby to make Shoreditch two-way
again. Memories of the 1960s one-way gyratory racetrack as it was until
early 2002 are now passing into history, and the switch to two-way has
made cycling in the Shoreditch area a whole lot more convenient and
pleasant. More... We're now backing a campaign
to get rid of the Stoke Newington one-way system. Car Free Days
We've been centrally involved in putting on five car-free days now:
Mapping and
knowledge base project
We are discussing the initiation of an exciting new project, in
conjunction with www.cyclemaps.com,
to build a map and database of the cycling geography of Hackney,
using contributed information about where you cycle and what you think
about particular streets, junctions or other
places of interest, as well as a survey of the 'permeability' of the
cityscape, detailing physical and legal blocks
which need removing so that cyclists can enjoy maximum route choice and
minimum diversion. Past stuffProject
Modal Shift
Mobility assistance for our highway engineers. Clapton
Park
Keeping the rat-runners out while still allowing cycle traffic through
- we're all for it. CycleActive
During the summer and autumn of 2000, we ran an NHS-funded project to
encourage Hackney people to get physically active by
learning to ride a bike - or to get comfortable with riding again.
There's a similar scheme now
being run
in Bristol by Life Cycle, and no doubt it's also happening
elsewhere. It'll be great when people can access this type of
locally-delivered service nationwide through a single point of contact.
NHS Direct, perhaps? Life
Cycle's cycle prescription offer
for
Bristol is "Take two of
these..." Wheels, of
course. |
Meetings
We make all
our decisions at our monthly meeting. Find
out
more or read up on recent meetings.
Even if you're
not a member of the London Cycling Campaign, you are welcome to
attend (though non-members aren't able to vote).
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