Cycling

Starting this week (9th Apr) - Sofa to Saddle - like Couch To 5k but on bikes! Facebook)




Booking Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk*

*The initial sessions seem to be fully booked, but it could still be worth contacting the Be Well team if you’re interested.

Email: cycling@wigan.gov.uk

Grand Arcade
The Cycle Project Bike Jumble Event

Fri 12th April
9am - 4pm
at Rebuild with Hope

Are you a cycling enthusiast? Looking for great deals on bikes and accessories? Look no further!



The Wigan Cycle Project

You can buy secondhand bikes, donate unwanted bikes, possibly sell high end bikes to them, arrange for bike servicing, attend courses, and more. Volunteers needed.



Learn more about the Wigan Cycle Project here: www.thecycleproject.co.uk

Be Well also offer free rides starting from the boroughwide cycle pods, where bikes and helmets are available to borrow free of charge.

The pods:
• Robin Park, Wigan
• St Peter’s Pavilion, Hindley
• Greenslate Farm, Billinge
• Three Sisters, Ashton
+ 5 near Leigh

Link: Cycle with Be Well

Don’t stop me now - I’m on a roll!

Also, you can now hire a bike - for free!



Leigh Bike Library: www.wigan.gov.uk

Gearing Up Bikes are based at Hodson St in Wigan Facebook

‘Recycling unloved & unwanted bikes
Training and skills – supporting and training people into employment
Improving access to low cost bikes’

For anyone interested in learning how to look after their own bikes, their next maintenance courses subsidised by TfGM are available to book.

Basic Maintenance (£10)
Wed 17th April
6pm till 8pm

Ideal for those new to cycling or wanting to start doing their own maintenance. Covers such things as bike set up, puncture repairs, gear & brake adjustments etc.
Link

Intermediate Maintenance (£30)
Sat 11th May
10am till 4pm

A more in depth course dealing with drive train replacement, gear indexing, headset & brake servicing, cable replacement etc.
Link

Its great to see others enjoying bike ride and, Someone needs to talk to the rivers and canal authorities about gate management, With these big teams of cyclists there is a problem when they get to the gates on the towpath, A good idea would be to give the leaders a gate key to allow them all through and not cause a bottle neck at the gates,

That is a great idea, TomP, towpath gates can be a pain, but I suppose they’re a necessary evil. Not that they always deter menaces, unfortunately. Lads on e-bikes zoomed past me last week and one even rode for a few metres whilst doing a vertical wheelie!

those are illegal Surrons, they are a motor bike with an electric engine, You see groups of them and they wear masks, those bikes cost £5.000 so are probably stolen,

If Wigan Council are now organising cycles rides and there is a need for the cyclists go on the busy main roads, they need to do something about the ignorant motorists parking their vehicles on the cycle lanes like for example, Wigan Lane and Wigan Road between the Cherry Tree and
Standish Village Centre!

Otherwise what is the purpose of spending money on providing them?

The Be Well bike rides tend to stick to off-road routes, Owd Codger, but you’re right, vehicles parking on cycle lanes is a problem.

Cycle Three Sisters

Tue 7th May and Tue 23rd Jul, 3pm - 6pm



Cycle Three Sisters is a free, twice-yearly celebration of cycling at Ashton’s Three Sisters Circuit.

There are bikes available to borrow and ride around the course, balance bikes and cycle skills sessions for children, and Wheels For All adapted cycles for people with a range of disabilities, plus a range of other activities and entertainment off the track.

www.wigan.gov.uk/BeWell

Enterprise in Wallgate regular use the greencycle lane as an extra parking spot for their vehicles as do the garage next door and, The immediate reply when challenged is, " no one uses this lane" or the standard one used by any person parking illegally " I'm only gonna be a minute" ,,, Its a problem that no one seems to care about,,

There is a group in Manchester that has a bike ride every year to high light the vulnerability of cyclist and if you want to join in,

Its free, clothes free,