06.05.10 New Bike for York Paramedic

Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedic Sarah Gallagher receives her new bike from Piers and Andy of Cycle Heaven. We've been sponsoring York's cycle paramedics for nine years now - providing their cycles, cycle parts and servicing free of charge. We support this project because we believe that you can do anything on a bike - in this case provide the fastest paramedic emergency assistance in the city. Proof, as if it's needed, that bikes really are the fastest way around town.

This is the latest - a custom built rig based on the Genesis IO ID steel frame with rigid forks and Shimano Alfine gears.

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Bishy Road Street Party Success!

This was the place to be on the evening of Thursday 1st of July and you would have have done well to leave your car at home, for this was the occasion of Bishy Road's first ever street party. The road was closed and reclaimed for human life instead of 30mph one ton metal boxes.

The shops stayed open late, there were stalls, street performers, music, including a brass band and it seemed like the whole community turned out. It is reckoned that 2000 people packed the area of our shopping parade and people have been raving about this night to us ever since, so we intend to make this an annual event. A big thank you to all the other retailers and to the volunteers who helped make this such a special event.

Extra special thanks to Richard Lane and Randall Ghent, organisers of Towards Car Free Cities IX and all the marshalls - drawn largely from the ranks of York Friends of the Earth. What a night!

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Towards Car Free Cities comes to York

Monday 28 June to Thursday 1 July 2010
www. worldcarfree.net/conference

This summer, York will be playing host to the Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX. Never afraid to wear our colours on our chest we're proud to be one of its sponsors. We get involved in such projects because we are strongly commited as a business to promoting alternative transport -  walking, cycling and public transport. This is because the way that we choose to travel across the face of the earth has a decisive impact on the kind of urban environment we inhabit. We want to live in physically safe, attractive, socially cohesive, economically vibrant, people friendly, diverse and fundamentally liveable cities.  All of  these...

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Vote for Option Three!

25.02.10 Blossom Street Consultation

York City Council are currently consulting the public on proposals to make improvements to the nightmarish, five lane, racetrack-like Micklegate-Blossom St junction. There are currently three options being considered and you can read about them, and vote on them here:  http://www.york.gov.uk/blossomstreet. Given that options One and Two offer precious little improvement to cyclists, we are strongly urging all our customers to vote for Option Three, which in addition to reducing the number of traffic lanes, also introduces the novel concept of cycle lanes onto this street (thanks for that!).

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Beauty and the Bike

10.12.09 Last night I attended the premiere of Beauty and the Bike - a documentary that explores why teenage girls in the UK don't cycle. Based on a project oragnised by the Darlington Cycle Campaign that encourages teenage girls to cycle, it follows their experiences when they conduct an exchange visit with girls of similar age in Bremen Germany. What emerges is a indictment of the frankly pathetic state of cycle infrastructure in the UK...

Photo: Phil Dixon

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Stolen: Brompton M6LX in Purple Haze

We have had one of our tester Bromptons stolen from our shop on Thursday 15th October between 5pm and 6pm. Unfortunately for us it's pretty top of the range: M6LX, titanium, colour -purple haze, with a SON front hub dynamo, silver mudguards.

If you come across such a bike and have your suspicions please call North Yorkshire Police on 0845 6060247 or us on 01904 636578/651870.

It's sad, but we are now going to have to lock up such bikes inside the shop!

Warning: Supermarket Bikes Can Damage Your Health

As seen on TV... 
A well known supermarket recently aired a commercial, trumpeting its £70 adult bike with the front forks on backwards. It only goes to show that you get what you pay for. For those of you not technically minded, you would be strongly advised not to ride this bike - the steering will be very wobbly.

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