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Hackney Cyclists diary 2008

ONE-OFF EVENTS

One-off events | Regular events and rides | Bike Week events

Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January 2008

Saturday 5th
Property Registration Day
Did you get a new bike or mobile phone for Christmas? Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhood Team is running a Property Registration Day where they will register your bike, or mobile phone, on the immobilise.com database to assist in recovery and identification if your new toy gets stolen. Come along to 220 Haggerston Road E8 4HT. If you can't make it, please try and register your new toys yourself on immobilise.com -- it's free!

Wednesday 9th
Monthly meeting
See ourmeetings page for details.

Tuesday 15th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 23rd
A10 Pitstop!
If you go home up the A10 or via the bike route across De Beauvoir to London Fields, stop off for a few minutes while professional mechanics pump your tyres, diagnose mechanical problems, and even do minor repairs. Also pick up some bargain accessories including front and back lights, lube and puncture kits. A joint presentation by Hackney Cyclists and the London Borough of Hackney.
4pm to 7pm, junction of the Kingsland Road and St Peter's Way Streetmap location

Saturday 26th
Burns Night
Our ever-popular annual Burns Night fundraising supper and dance. Details and tickets.

February 2008

Saturday 2nd
Pedal Power session - Finsbury Park
Cycling club for people with learning disabilities. (Info: Jo on 020 8809 7718). £2.50 fee plus bike hire £2.50 (bring your own bike if you can). 1.30 - 3.30pm. Full details

Tuesday 5th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 6th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Thursday 14th
Wheels and Heels cycle fashion show
Hackney and Tower Hamets councils are collaborating on Wheels & Heels, a Valentine's Day cycle fashion show in Columbia Road. It's going to be an exciting, high-profile event that aims to demonstrate that cycling and fashion are by no means mutually exclusive .
6pm onwards, Columbia Road, London E2 Streetmap location

Saturday 16th
Pedal Power session - Finsbury Park
Cycling club for people with learning disabilities. (Info: Jo on 020 8809 7718). £2.50 fee plus bike hire £2.50 (bring your own bike if you can). 1.30 - 3.30pm. Full details

Tuesday 19th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

March 2008

Saturday 1st
Pedal Power session - Finsbury Park
Cycling club for people with learning disabilities. (Info: Jo on 020 8809 7718). £2.50 fee plus bike hire £2.50 (bring your own bike if you can). 1.30 - 3.30pm. Full details

Wednesday 5th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Tuesday 4th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Saturday 15th
Pedal Power session - Finsbury Park
Cycling club for people with learning disabilities. (Info: Jo on 020 8809 7718). £2.50 fee plus bike hire £2.50 (bring your own bike if you can). 1.30 - 3.30pm. Full details

Saturday 29th
Pedal Power session - Finsbury Park
Cycling club for people with learning disabilities. (Info: Jo on 020 8809 7718). £2.50 fee plus bike hire £2.50 (bring your own bike if you can). 1.30 - 3.30pm. Full details

April 2008

Tuesday 1st
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 2nd
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Monday 7th

Thursday 17th

May 2008

Tuesday 6th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 7th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Sunday 18th Grasstrack cycle racing at Well Street Common Festival "Racing on grass is breathtaking and funny." So says Cycling Club Hackney which is organising its first grasstrack racing event as part of Well Street Common Festival. All are welcome to take part in the fun.
Well Street Common, E9
Noon to 5pm.

June 2008

Monday 2nd
Free roaming bike surgery
Free registration and marking of your bike, plus minor repairs and maintenance, courtesy of Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
10am to 2pm, outside London Fields Lido

Tuesday 3rd
Free roaming bike surgery
Free registration and marking of your bike, plus minor repairs and maintenance, courtesy of Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
10am to 2pm, in front of the Queensbridge Centre, Holly Street

also Tuesday 3rd
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 4th
Free roaming bike surgery
Free registration and marking of your bike, plus minor repairs and maintenance, courtesy of Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
10am to 2pm, Outside Morelands Estate Community Hall

also Wednesday 4th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Thursday 5th
Free roaming bike surgery
Free registration and marking of your bike, plus minor repairs and maintenance, courtesy of Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
10am to 2pm, Seating area near Broadway Market, London Fields

Friday 6th
Free roaming bike surgery
Free registration and marking of your bike, plus minor repairs and maintenance, courtesy of Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods Team.
10am to 2pm, outside London Fields Lido

Bike Week 2008 events in Hackney

Tuesday 17th
A10 pitstop
To make sure you're geared up for summer, mechanics will be on hand to check and tune bikes where the A10 and LCN+ route 8 meet. Essential accessories will be available for sale at below trade prices, and council staff will be there to talk about the work they're doing to encourage more and safer cycling. A joint Hackney Council / Hackney Cyclists event.
St Peter's Way, N1 (off Kingsland Road)
4pm to 7pm

also Tuesday 17th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 18th
London Fields cyclists' breakfast
Join Hackney Cyclists for fresh coffee and croissants, and while you're eating them, let Dr Bike give a quick diagnosis of your bike's state of health. Queensbridge Safer Neighbourhoods team will also be there to register your bike on the immobilise.com property database, so if it gets nicked and recovered the police know who to give it back to.
London Fields, E8
7am to 9am

Thursday 19th
Pitstop in the Park
Another chance to get your bike checked and tuned, and top up on essential accessories at super-cheap prices. A joint Hackney Council / Hackney Cyclists event.
London Fields, E8
4pm to 7pm

also Thursday 19th
Hackney Sundown Cool Commute Wind-Down
Stop off on their way home for chilled drinks, chilled music and a generally chilled vibe at a leafy location on Green Lanes.
Corner of Green Lanes and Collins Road, opposite south-west corner of Clissold Park, N16
6pm to 8pm

Saturday 21st
Bike the Bounds
Popular annual ride round the boundaries of the borough. Four or five hours of leisurely cycling to discover the amazing diversity of landscape and streetscape encompassed within one of London's greenest boroughs. Pub stop included.
Depart at 12:30pm from Hackney Town Hall.

end of Bike Week 2008 events in Hackney

July 2008

Tuesday 1st
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 2nd
Hackney Cyclists Annual Meeting
The main business of our Annual Meeting will be the election for the posts of chair (co-ordinator), secretary and treasurer. If you would like to put yourself forward for any of these positions, or would like to volunteer in another capacity such as newsletter editor, rides co-ordinator, or stall organiser, please get in touch. We'll also have lightning talks from a number of the borough's other cycling projects and organisations. Buffet served, pay bar, secure bike parking, garden for post-meeting socialising.
>> Oak Tree Community Centre, 77-81 Bethune Road N16 5EA -- N.B. This is different from our usual Monthly meeting venue.
7pm for 7.30pm

Tuesday 15th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Saturday 19th
Dunwich Dynamo XVI
From Hackney overnight to the beach at Dunwich in Suffolk. Info from the London School of Cycling and Southwark Cyclists.
>> Riders gather in London Fields around 8pm

Tuesday 22nd
Road Danger Watch event at Old Street roundabout
Our neighbours in Islington Cyclists Action Group are organising a 'road danger watch' event at the Old Street / City Road junction. Currently a notoriously unpleasant roundabout surrounding Old Street tube station, this junction is just over the border in Islington, but is of special interest to Hackney Cyclists because it is integral to the Shoreditch traffic system. (Traffic lights were installed on the roundabout in 2002 as part of the Shoreditch gyratory reforms.) The purpose of ICAG's road danger watch events is to observe road user interactions, with the intention of identifying hazardous behaviour and engineering features. These observations will be used to inform campaigns for improved enforcement, engineering and education.
>> 5.30pm-7pm -- please contact Stephen Taylor on 07977 235735 if you would like to take part.

Sunday 27th
Grasstrack racing on Well Street Common
All are invited to Cycling Club Hackney's fourth session of grasstrack racing. The main event is individual flying lap time trials, and previous sessions have seen riders between the ages of seven and 62 testing themselves against the clock. It's great fun and you don't need to be an athlete to participate. There will be prizes up for grabs including winners' jerseys for each category. Bring your bike and join in.
>> 7pm - 9pm, Well Street Common, London E9

August 2008

Tuesday 5th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 6th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Sunday 17th
Tour de Hackney
A highlight of this year's Shoreditch Festival is the 'Tour de Hackney', a 12-mile route round the borough, with a shorter marshalled circuit for beginners through Shoreditch and De Beauvoir to London Fields and back. The ride will start and finish at Shoreditch Park where a whole range of cycling-related entertainment will be on show, including bike polo, bike ballet and stunt cycling. The Tour de Hackney is organised by Shoreditch Festival and Hackney Council. More info from the Shoreditch Festival.
>> 1pm to 7pm, Shoreditch Park

Tuesday 19th
No workshop today -- back in September!!
See our workshop page for details.

September 2008

Tuesday 2nd
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 3rd
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Sunday 7th
Sunday Cycle Picnic
Dress up, dress your bike up, pack a hamper and cycle to London Fields for the big Sunday Cycle Picnic, promoted by Hackney Council in partnership with Cycle Chic, Bobbin Bicycles and Cycle Fashion. The picnic will run all afternoon, with prizes awarded to the most creatively dressed cyclist and best dressed bicycle. A notable draw will be a pedal-generated cinema where Ray Pascoe will be showcasing a range of cycling films from his private collection as well as from the BFI's.
>> Noon to 5pm, London Fields, E8

also Sunday 7th
Tour of Britain opening stage + BikeJam
This Sunday's not short of quality cycling events, because there's also the small matter of the Tour of Britain starting in London. The main event is ten laps of an 8.5km circuit based on the Victoria Embankment. Start and finish are at the Westminster end, but at the other end of the circuit Tower Hill will be a good place both to watch the action and enjoy 'BikeJam', a cycling festival being organised there by stage sponsor Transport for London. Maybe someone will lead a sprint down from the London Fields picnic to see the racing, which starts at 1:30pm?

Wednesday 10th
Eastway User Group calls Olympic Velopark legacy meeting
The Eastway Users Group is convening a meeting about plans for the area of Hackney Wick, Stratford and Leyton that is currently being redeveloped for the 2012 Olympic Games. The focus will be on what will be provided for cycle sport after the games, as recompense for the loss of the Eastway Cycle Circuit. The latest legacy plans for the velopark will be presented by the Olympic Delivery Agency, prior to going on general release.
>> 6:30pm - 8.30pm, Hackney Wick Community Centre, The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, E9 5JH

Tuesday 16th
A10 lorry/cyclist awareness roadshow
Following the series of dreadful collisions involving trucks and cyclists in our borough, Hackney borough police have arranged for the Met commercial vehicles unit's lorry/cyclist awareness roadshow to set up on the A10, which is both our busiest cycle route and a busy HGV route. The roadshow invites people to sit in the cab of a lorry to see the street from the driver's perspective. The truck will be set up on the forecourt of the fire station on Kingsland Road between 8am and 7pm.

also Tuesday 16th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Sunday 21st
London Freewheel
Second year of the extraordinary mass cycle ride in central London. If you'd like to travel down there in good company, join us outside Hackney Town Hall square for a 10am departure.

Thursday 25th
Cycling Club Hackney AGM
Members and supporters of Cycling Club Hackney are cordially invited to its first annual general meeting. The agenda will include a progress report; election of officers including youth representation; prospects for a main base and additional sites to work from; autumn/winter 2008 programme; event calendar for 2009. Light bites and refreshments will be provided.
>> 7pm to 9pm, Barnabas Centre, 109 Homerton High Street, E9 6DJ

Saturday 27th
Grasstrack racing at Mabley Green
Cycling Club Hackney is running a grasstrack racing session at the Hackney Wick Festival. Open to all ages and abilities. Test yourself against the clock on a 'flying lap' time trial. Bring your bike, join in, have fun and win prizes!
>> 2pm to 5pm, Mabley Green, Homerton Road E9.

October 2008

Wednesday 1st
Monthly meeting
Our guest this month will be Councillor Alan Laing, Hackney's cabinet member for Neighbourhoods. Cllr Laing's brief includes neighbourhood renewal, waste management, recycling, street scene and highway infrastructure, environmental health and trading standards, parking, traffic management, and crime and community safety. We can look forward to a wide-ranging discussion about the authority's strategy and delivery, and to what extent these meet our campaign objectives on road danger reduction, modal shift etc. See our meetings page for venue details.

Monday 6th
Film show: Live Bicycle
'Live Bicycle' tells the story of the 2006 'Ciemmona', the huge Intergalactic Critical Mass which happens every May in Rome, Italy. People attend from across Europe, bringing 6,000-plus cyclists on the streets in a mass of colour, noise and celebration with rides happening on Friday and Saturday, capped off with a cycle to the beach on Sunday. 'Live Bicycle' interviews those involved showing the mass and critiquing our car-centred culture. Adam Thomson, who attended the Ciemmona in 2007 and 2008, will also show some pictures from his visits. Film 54mins, talk and slides 30mins.
>>7pm, Pogo Café, Clarence Road E5

Tuesday 7th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Tuesday 14th
Eastway Users Group annual general meeting
The Eastway Users Group has been campaigning very successfully for a good quality replacement for the Eastway Cycle Circuit, demolished two years ago to make way for the Olympics. Principal items for discussion will be Hog Hill (Redbridge Cycling Centre) relocation and Olympic Park Legacy Planning Application. Copies of the plans and the application can be viewed on the night. Application is exactly as per the recent presentation to members made by ODA and Hopkins. Please RSVP to Michael Humphreys (michaelhumphreys AT btinternet DOT com) to confirm numbers attending.
>>7pm, Hackney Wick Community Centre, 80 Eastway, London E9 5JH

Tuesday 21st
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

November 2008

Tuesday 4th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Saturday 1st
Pedal-powered generators workshop
At this one-day workshop at Hackney City Farm you can discover how to use your own bike as part of a small power station, capable of powering computers, stereos, TVs and other small household appliances. This method makes a great use of your bike when you’re not riding it around town. Find out all you need to know to assemble a bike-powered generator. Full details.

Wednesday 5th
Monthly meeting
See our meetings page for details.

Tuesday 18th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Thursday 27th
Thanksgiving Day Feast and Fundraiser
LCC will be one of the beneficiaries of a fun fundraising feast that brings a taste of North American culinary tradition to the East End. This organic, vegan/vegetarian Thanksgiving Day celebration is organised by two Hackney LCC members, and included on the menu will be cornbread, cranberry & orange relish, candied yams with bourbon, pumpkin pie, apple pie and chocolate chocolate brownies. You do NOT have to be American or veg[etari]an to join in!

>>7pm, The Flea-Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG

Full mouthwatering details and online booking here.

December 2008

Tuesday 2nd
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

Wednesday 3rd
Monthly meeting End-of-year social
We're replacing the usual monthly Hackney Cyclists meeting with an informal pre-Yule get-together. You are invited to drop by for mulled wine and nibbles from 7.30pm. All members and supporters of the London Cycling Campaign in Hackney welcome. Guaranteed no agenda, no matters arising, and no action points.

It's at our usual meeting venue, the Marcon Court Estate community hall, on the corner of Amhurst Road and Marcon Place, E8 1LN (in between Hackney Downs and Hackney Central stations). Map location

Hope you see there!

Tuesday 16th
Self-help maintenance workshop
See our workshop page for details.

REGULAR EVENTS

One-off events | Regular events

Hackney LCC members' meeting

All members of the LCC are welcome to come to our Monthly meeting on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm. More details here.

Hackney self-help cycle maintenance workshop

Sort your bike out! First and third Tuesdays of every month. Details.

Little Green Ride

There is a strong Hackney element in the Little Green Ride, an easy paced ride of around 30 miles mostly on quiet Hertfordshire lanes with a stop at a country pub for lunch. Riders meet at Finsbury Park mainline station ticket hall at 9:45 on the third Sunday of every month. Contact Stephen Taylor on 07977 235735.

Please see the LCC rides and events page to find out the new dates for this and other rides all across London.

You might also like to subscribe to the 'lccrider' email list (an information-only list, not a discussion forum). You can then get information, post messages about your rides and put them into the automatic calendar reminder system. To subscribe send an email to lccrider-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Tower Hamlets Wheelers rides

Our neighbouring LCC borough group, Tower Hamlets Wheelers, have a very active rides programme. Check out the Wheelers' rides diary.

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