January 2010
Tuesday 5th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 6th
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 19th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Saturday 30th
Burns Night
Our ever-popular annual Burns Night fundraising supper and dance. Details and tickets.
February 2010
Tuesday 2nd
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 3rd
Monthly meeting
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Monday 8th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society
First meeting of the Hackney Bicycle Film Society. On the bill, A Sunday in Hell, the 1978 film about the Paris-Roubaix cycle race. To be followed by bicycle games. Cost: Free but a small donation to the Hackney Cyclists workshop will be requested. For those who are wondering Why the Hackney Bicycle Film Society is meeting in the London Borough of Camden, organiser Adam Thompson says: "The answer is simple. We are internationalists and recognise no borders and will be bound by no parochial sensibilities." So there you go!
>> 7pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Tuesday 16th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Tuesday 2nd
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 3rd
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 16th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 24th
After-work ride
Organised jointly with Tower Hamlets Wheelers, our evening social ride this month will start outside Hackney City Farm, to look at the junction of Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, Columbia Road and Warner Place to discuss what could be done to improve these very busy cycle crossing points and approaches up to them. Then we'll have a scenic and relaxed group ride for 3-4 miles, dipping into both boroughs as we make our way east. In respect for Shivon Watson who was killed while cycling to work on 10th March, we'll be laying flowers at the site of the incident at the junction of Victoria Park Road and Lauriston Road. The ride will then finish at the nearby Royal Inn on Park at around 9pm, where coincidentally the London Fixed Wheel and Single Speed forum (East) meets every Wednesday.
Flyer
>> 6.30pm, outside Hackney City Farm, junction of Hackney Road and Goldsmiths Row
April 2010
Tuesday 6th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 7th
Monthly meeting
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Monday 12th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'The Flying Scotsman'
On the bill tonight, The Flying Scotsman, the remarkable true story of Graeme Obree. In 1993, as an unemployed amateur, Obree broken the world one-hour record on a bike of his own revolutionary design, which he constructed out of scrap metal and parts of a washing machine.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.30pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Tuesday 20th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 21st
Social ride - Rivington Street to Olympus Square
Continuing our effort to run one evening ride a month, starting with a discussion of a particular street location, we will meet on Shoreditch High Street to have a look at Rivington Street where Hackney council is planning to reintroduce two-way cycling. We will then make our way via back streets to join Cycling Club Hackney at their social evening at their base near Hackney Downs. Food, music and turbo training are promised there!
>>Meet at 6.30pm, outside Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High Street.
May 2010
Tuesday 4th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 5th
Monthly meeting
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Monday 10th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'Live Bicycle'
Cyclists in Rome were late comers to the concept of Critical Mass, with the event only starting to happen seven years ago. But having taken 'massa critica' to their hearts, they decided to go one step further and hold an 'interplanetary critical mass' which happens each May and attracts thousands from across European and has now been emulated in Madrid in April and Paris in July. This documentary describes the 2006 Ciemmona ('critical mass big').
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.00pm, Look Mum No Hands, 49 Old Street, London EC1V 9HX
Map
Tuesday 18th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 19th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Tuesday 1st
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 2nd
Monthly meeting
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Monday 14th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'Bicycle Dreams'
Documentary by filmmaker Stephen Auerbach, tells the story of the Race Across America (RAAM), an epic 3000‐mile bicycle race that challenges riders to cross the country in just ten days. First held in 1982, RAAM is considered the most challenging sporting event in the world. Top competitors ride over 300 miles per day and sleep only a few hours each night. With little
prize money at stake, the fundamental goal of the race is simply to finish, a challenge half of all riders fail to meet.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 8pm, The Nevill, 31 Nevill Road N16 8SL (NB change from usual venue and time).
Tuesday 15th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Thursday 17th
Stoke Newington traffic meeting
Leswin Area Residents' Association (LARA) is holding an open meeting to discuss traffic calming measures and the removal of the Stoke Newington gyratory. All interested local residents and neighbourhood groups are invited. More information on LARA's blog, which includes a pretty good summary of Hackney LCC's position.
>> 7pm, St. Paul's Church Hall, corner of Stoke Newington High Street and Evering Road N16
Sunday 20th
Tree Musketeers 'Tree Wheel'
Cycle ride starting from Abney Park Cemetery looking at Hackney's trees. Suitable for all levels of fitness as the ride is slow with many stops.
>> 10.30am to about 1pm. Meet at the Stamford Hill entrance of Abney Park Cemetery.
 Wednesday 23rd
London Fields cyclists' breakfast
Join us bright and early for our main event of Bike Week 2010. Breakfast on fresh coffee, croissants and even porridge, and while you're eating them, let Dr Bike give a quick diagnosis of your bike's state of health.
>> 7am to 9am, London Fields, E8
also Wednesday 23rd
Social ride
Very gentle, slow-paced social ride around east London on quiet local roads and off-road routes finishing at 9pm with a visit to a local alehouse.
>>Meet at 6.15pm, Hackney town hall, Mare Street E8 1EA or, if you prefer, 6.40pm, Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmiths Row E2 8QA
Thursday 24th
Southgate Road commuter cooldown
Hackney and Islington local LCC groups will be dishing out maps, information, snacks and juice to homeward-bound commuters where the popular east-west London Cycle Network route 8 crosses the borough boundary.
>>5.30pm to 7.30pm, Junction of Northchurch Road and Southgate Road
Friday 25th
Feeder ride to Tower Hamlets Wheelers Glamour Ride
Get glammed up and join us for a ride down to Mile End to join up with our neighbours the Wheelers for their legendary annual Glamour Ride.
>>Meet at 6.15pm, Hackney town hall, Mare Street E8 1EA
July 2010
Tuesday 6th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 7th
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 20th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 21st
Social ride -- up the river Lea
A leisurely ride from London Fields up the Lea towpath, to take advantage of a long and, we hope, warm and dry summer evening. After ambling north for an hour and a bit, we'll turn round again, aiming to end up at the waterside Anchor and Hope at around 9pm.
>>Meet at 6.30pm, at the Lamb Lane entrance to London Fields
Saturday 24th to Sunday 25th
Dunwich Dynamo XVIII
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
August 2010
Tuesday 3rd
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 4th
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 17th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 18th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Wednesday 1st
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 7th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Monday 13th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'Breaking Away'
Peter Yates's flag‐waving film stands with To Kill
a Mockingbird and American Graffiti as one of
the best films about small‐town Americana.
Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) and his three
friends‐‐ex‐football star Mike (Dennis Quaid),
wily comedian Cyril (Daniel Stern), and tough
kid Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley)‐‐are doomed
to live in the college town of Bloomington,
Indiana.
Stohler escapes into a world of Italian bicycling,
picking up the lingo, the accent, and a good
share of the talent of his heroes.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.30pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Wednesday 15th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Tuesday 21st
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Tuesday 5th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 6th
Monthly meeting
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Monday 11th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'Beijing Bicycle'
Young men in packs, machismo, class divisions,
violence, and indifference. Guei arrives from
the country: toothbrushes, hotel foyers, and
Qin, a rich neighbour in high heels, dazzle him.
He gets a job as a messenger. The company
issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of
his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it. A
student, Jian, has it; for him, it's the key to teen
society ‐ with his pals and with Xiao, a girl he
fancies. Guei finds the bike and stubbornly tries
to reclaim it in the face of great odds. But for
Jian to lose the bike would mean humiliation.
The two young men ‐ and the people around
them ‐ are swept up in the youths' desperation.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.30pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Tuesday 19th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 20th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Tuesday 2nd
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 3rd
Monthly meeting
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Monday 8th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'The Bicycle Thief'
Antonio Ricci, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he's finally given a job putting up posters. There's a catch, though ‐ he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get a pawned bicycle back. He goes off to his first day's work, truly happy for the first time in years ‐ and the title of this 1948 film gives away what happens next.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.30pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Tuesday 16th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Wednesday 17th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Wednesday 1st
Monthly meeting
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Tuesday 7th
Self-help maintenance workshop
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Monday 13th
Hackney Bicycle Film Society presents 'Belleville Rendezvous'
Belleville Rendezvous is a Belgium-Quebec-France coproduced 2003 animated surreal adventure film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film tells the story of Madame Souza, an elderly woman who goes on a quest to rescue her grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia for gambling purposes and taken to the city of Belleville. She is joined by the triplets of Belleville, music hall singers from the 1930s, who she meets in the city, and her obese hound dog, Bruno.
Entry is free, but you must be a member to attend. If you are not a member you can apply for membership by supplying your full name, address and occupation by email to hackneybicyclefilmsociety@gmail.com
>> 7.30pm, The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Wednesday 15th
Social ride
Details TBC
>>Meet at 6.30pm, location TBC
Tuesday 21st
Self-help maintenance workshop
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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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