So, we had the first workshop in Stoke Newington yesterday, and are pretty pleased with how it went. We had about 24 people turn up, and a good mix of people wanting general maintenance training and those with specific problems to fix. We had a great turn out of people to help us from the east hackney workshop – and basically it all went pretty swimmingly, despite the rain. Next one in Stoke Newington is […]

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 […]

Just to confirm we’re definitely going to go ahead with the first workshop in Stoke Newington on the 14th of September at St Michael and All Angels Church Hall on Northwold road between 7pm and 9pm. Come! Bring your friends! And your bike… There will be tea, and most probably cake, as well as bike maintenance advice and help with fixing problems.

So you might just have noticed that the London Cycle Hire Scheme launched on Friday and below you can find a small round-up of some of what the internet has had to say about it. At launch there were apparently 5,000 of the 6,000 bikes available at most of the 400 or so docking stations and bar a few grumbles, some technical hitches at the Holborn docking station and some sticky brakes, people mostly seem […]