The London Orchard Project has launched a competition to design a pedal powered apple crusher:   Call for proposals: Pedal-powered apple crusher The London Orchard Project is looking for someone to design and make a new pedal-powered apple crusher for easy juicing of urban apples.    This is an exciting opportunity to create a really useful product that does not currently exist. The crusher will be used by us and community groups across London harvesting […]

Residents of Stoke Newington have a rare opportunity to tell the council what they think about the current one-way (gyratory) traffic system which is in effect around the area bounded by the High Street, Northwold Road, Rectory Road and Evering Road (map). These roads are managed by Transport for London (the council manages the smaller roads in the middle of the gyratory) so the responses from this consultation will be used to inform the council's […]

In order to make sure we can keep regular, free bike maintenance workshops going in Hackney, we’re going to be having a fund raising party on Saturday 4th December at the Royal Sovereign on Northwold Road (a couple of minutes East of the Stoke Newington workshop). There’ll be DJs spinning party tunes to keep those winter blues at bay and the pub does fine stone baked pizzas if you get hungry. Check out the flyer […]

According to a brief comment on Cycling Cultures, Hackney Police are organising four sessions this month where you can have an RFID security tag fitted to your bike and registered on Immobilise so that it can be identified, and hopefully returned, if it’s nicked. *Update* Cycling Cultures went along and has a report on the tagging. I can’t find much information out there but Tag Your Bike has wonkily formatted dates and times, straightened out […]