CTUK News - June 2009

Over 1,1000 bikes fixed during Bike Week

CTUK was doing its bit for Bike Week (one of the UK’s biggest cycling promo event) last week with Dr Bike Sessions throughout London as well as helping to raise cycle awareness within businesses.

Jean, our new marketing manager was at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) giving out leaflets and talking to employees. GSK is a company that loves to cycle. Incentives for its 3,000 employees include a bike miles scheme (where employees receive a £1 bike shop voucher when they ride to work) bike maintenance at work, changing rooms and cycle parking.

CTUK Operations Manager Andrew gets to grips with a patient at one of our Dr Bike Sessions. We fixed over 1,100 bikes during Bike Week!

Kids take the Lords for a spin around Westminster

Children from Lambeth’s Julian’s Primary School showed over 25 Lords and peers how to ride a bike in this years All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s cycle ride. The ride, from Speakers Corner to Westminster, was to promote ‘Bikeability’, cycling proficiency for the 21st Century designed to give everyone the skills and confidence to ride bikes on today’s busy roads.

While the kids were ‘old hands’ having already taken Bikeability Level 2, some of the MPs and peers were given their first taste of Bikeability’s Level 1 (control skills) and Level 2 (introduction to cycling on roads) by CTUK.

The Group included Transport Minister Paul Clark, Gwyn Prosser MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, Meg Munn MP for Sheffield, Phillip Darnton, Chairman of Cycling England and Lord Redesdale.

A frustrated cab driver made a 'wheely' bad mistake when he decided to target the rear wheel of a cyclist who was helping the smooth flow of riders by blocking the traffic. The cyclist was Lord Berkeley and the unsuspecting cabbie received more than a quiet word from a number of plain-clothes police officers.