Events

Choose Cycling is holding a special series of Cycling Saturdays at Four Seasons Outdoors, Green Lane, Belper every Saturday afternoon throughout July and August 2009.

Everything you need to get you started or to move your cycling lifestyle a little further along...

- Free cycling maps and advice
- Free bike try outs
- New weekly bike hire service
- Bike safety checks and basic repairs
- Sign up for bike rides, cycle training and bike maintenance workshops

It is a rare opportunity to try out some unusual bikes including a titanium Brompton, a 21 speed folding Birdy Tourer, a folding 9 speed Mezzo and some stylish continental bikes.

Contact us for more information, or just come down and see us one Saturday over the summer! Map to FSO is on their website www.fourseasonsoutdoors.co.uk

More Fix Your Bike Yourself Workshops
We will also be continuing our "Fix your Bike yourself" workshops at Four Seasons Outdoors in Belper from July to September:
Saturday 25th July 2 - 4pm (Basic)
Saturday 22nd August 2- 4pm (Basic)
Saturday 12th September 2 - 4pm(Intermediate).

Contact us for more information.

Community Bike Rides from Duffield
And why not join us on one of our Community Bike Rides over the summer from the Appletree Practice, Derby Road, Duffield?
Saturday 25th July
Easy Bike Ride Duffield to Milford circuit (return via Makeney and Millenium Meadows)
Saturday 15th August
Moderate Bike Ride Duffield to Denby Pottery for lunch (via Little Eaton)
Saturday 19th September
Moderate+ Bike Ride Duffield to Derby on In Town, Without My Car! Day (via Little Eaton)

Meet outside Appletree Practice, Derby Road, Duffield at 10 am. Rides open to all. Children under 16 must be accompanied.

Community Bike Rides from Duffield

And why not join us on one of our Community Bike Rides over the summer from the Appletree Practice, Derby Road, Duffield?

Saturday 25th July
Easy Bike Ride Duffield to Milford circuit (return via Makeney and Millenium Meadows)

Saturday 15th August
Moderate Bike Ride Duffield to Denby Pottery for lunch (via Little Eaton)

Saturday 19th September
Moderate+ Bike Ride Duffield to Derby on In Town, Without My Car! Day (via Little Eaton)

Meet outside Appletree Practice, Derby Road, Duffield at 10 am. Rides open to all. Children under 16 must be accompanied.

More Fix Your Bike Yourself Workshops

We will also be continuing our "Fix your Bike yourself" workshops at Four Seasons Outdoors in Belper from July to September:

Saturday 25th July 2 - 4pm (Basic)

Saturday 22nd August 2- 4pm (Basic)

Saturday 12th September 2 - 4pm(Intermediate).

Contact us for more information.

On Sunday 30th August 2009 Leicester will host a mass-participation bike ride in and around the city on traffic-free roads.

Skyride sees Sky joining with British Cycling and Leicester City Council to put the fun back into cycling this summer.

Cycle round and take in the sights of Leicester without the traffic fumes and jams.

A day for the whole family, where you'll have the chance to meet the British Élite Team, enjoy the live entertainment, take part in challenges, learn tricks and - hopefully - soak up the sunshine!

Skyride is looking for people to give up their Sunday to help make this event a success. For more information, please email gareth@gdheventsolutions.com

Choose Cycling will be at Erewash Canal Festival

On the canal towpath along Tamworth Road, Long Eaton and also on the fields of The Long Eaton School

Bring your bike down for a FREE Dr Bike safety check, pick up a free cycling map and get some route-planning advice, have a look at one of our folding bikes, enter our Cycling in Safety Quiz or sign up to our Change the world campaign.

We hope to see you there!

Sheridan, Stef, Paul and the Choose Cycling Team

Saturdays at Shipley Country Park
October 2009

Choose Cycling is working in partnership with Brooklyn Medical Practice in Heanor to promote cycling for health this autumn.

Did you know that regular cycling:
- Gives you a fitness level equivalent to being 10 years younger
- Burns 8 calories a minute or 11kg of fat a year
- Can help prevent over 20 chronic health conditions, including heart disease, high blood pressure, depression, diabetes and cancer.

Come down to the Park and give cycling a go!

Launch day with bike tryouts and free bike safety checks
Free Cycling Confidence Sessions
Free bike loans
Community Bike Rides

Programme of events

Saturday 3rd October
10 - 4
Cycling at Shipley Launch day - free bike tryouts, Dr Bike safety checks, free cycling maps and information and community bike rides

Saturday 10th October
10 - 12 Cycling Confidence Session
1 - 3 Community Bike Rides

Saturday 17th October
10 - 12 Cycling Confidence Session 2
1 - 3 Community Bike Rides

Saturday 24th October
10 - 12 Cycling Confidence Session
1 - 3 Community Bike Rides

Saturday 31st October
10 - 12 Cycling Confidence Session 2
1 - 3 Community Bike Rides

We have some “Easy Rider” bikes available for you to borrow for the sessions and hire for a week free of charge.

Community Bike Rides are open to all. Routes on cycle paths or quiet lanes where possible. Children under 18 must be accompanied.

To find out more or book a place:
- Visit our stall at Brooklyn Medical Practice on Monday mornings through September
- Visit www.choosecycling.co.uk/community
- Call 07900 977990 or email community@choosecycling.co.uk

We hope to see you there!

The Choose Cycling Team

The Opening Public Ride on the new Breadsall Greenway (new NCN Route 672), will take place on Sunday 22nd November.

The ride, led by the Derby Group of Sustrans Rangers, will start from The Quad in Derby Market Place at 11am and go (mostly off-road) to the current extreme end of the new path, a distance of about 3.75 miles.

There will be soup, plus hot and cold drinks available at Breadsall Station, which is about halfway along the new Greenway.

Why not join us?

Why not join the national celebration of walking to work!

www.walkingworks.org.uk

Why not join the annual national celebration of cycling?! Getting bigger every year!!

www.bikeweek.org.uk

Why not join Sustrans annual Change your world campaign?

www.changeyourworld.org.uk