ChangingPace has helped to revive a bike club in South Edinburgh.
The Mansion in Gracemount has had a bike club (on and off) for over 10 years. At the back of the house is a (neglected) BMX track.
As part of a wider project for SEHLI (with funding from Cycling Scotland) ChangingPace has offered advice, run a ‘fix your own bike’ session and created a web site for the club – themansionbikeclub.wordpress.com.
Categories: BikeBase · ChangingPace · Climate Change · Cycling · Cycling Scotland · Safe Routes to School
ChangingPace is working with Stenhouse Primary School to develop ways of bringing ‘cycling’ into the curriculum.
Twenty one children signed up for the four week after school ‘club’. They are learning the basics about looking after their bikes. Inevitably many needed their tyres blown up and/or saddles raised. Both are simple things that children can do for themselves which make a big difference to the comfort and efficiency of cycling.
Simple adjustments also involved numbers – sizes of allen keys and spanners (in millimetres). Frame and wheel sizes are still mostly measured in inches! Other activities that can be slotted into various places in the curriculum include photography and IT (recording details in case bikes get stolen). Planning cycle trips involve mapping (and GPS) and local history and geography. The actual trips will mean ‘physical activity’, ’social and personal development’ etc!
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Two of ChangingPace’s recent projects were chosen for the short-list of Cycling Scotland’s Innovation Award 2008 yesterday in Perth.
The wonderful Bingham 50+ Cycle Club was one: Not wonderful because we did it, but because of the happiness of those who re-discovered cycling.
The other was BikeBase, a new project in the early stages of development. This offers basic tools (e.g. track pumps) and information to schools and employers. It is being piloted in Edinburgh, but will be offered more widely, (partnership agreements are being negotiated), soon.
Neither project actually won. That honour went to Recyke-a-bike in Fallin. ChangingPace will have more innovations in time for next year’s award!
Categories: Active Travel · BikeBase · ChangingPace · Craigmillar · Cycling · Cycling Scotland · EducatedTravel · Safe Routes to School
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