| Granton Bike Day
22nd June 2008 |
With the Granton Youth Centre, the Bike Station is organising
a Granton Bike Day, 12-3pm Sunday 22 June at the Granton
Youth Centre, 3 West Granton Road. The event is open
to everyone. Free Dr Bike cycle check and service, kids
bikes for sale, maps and info about cycling around Granton
and North Edinburgh and more.
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| Dr Bike in Roslin
20th June 2008 |
The Bike Station will be hosting a Dr. Bike session
on the day of the parade.
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| Cycling in the
West End |
Do you cycle to work in the West End? On Tuesday 17
June, from 8.30 to 10am, St George's Church is organising
a Bike Breakfast as part of Bike Week. Open to all cyclists,
the Bike Station will be there with its Bike Doctors
offering free cycle checks. Information about cycling
will be available.
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| Bike Week 2008 |
| The Bike Station is out
and about during Bike Week (14 - 22 June). Dr Bikes
are being arranged for Edinburgh Airport, the Forestry
Commission, the Scottish Government, BSkyB, Edinburgh
Council, North Lanarkshire Council, Dunedin Canmore
Housing Association and others. |
| February 2008 -
The Bike Station awarded funding from the Big Lottery
Fund |
| The Bike Station has been awarded
a grant of £86,000 over four years to run Build
Your Own Bike courses for young people. The grant, from
the Young People's Fund, means that we can now offer
free places on these classes, which promote cycling
and healthy, positive lifestyles, as well as offering
a practical learning environment. For more information
about the classes click here.
If you would like to know more about how your group
might be able to take part in a course, email mark@thebikestation.org.uk
Click here
for more about the Young People's Fund. |
| January 2008 |
With all the figures now in, 2007 was a record-breaking
year for the Bike Station. In all, we took in 50 tonnes
of discarded bicycles, compared to 34 tonnes in 2006.
Over 60% of those 3,200 bikes are now back on Edinburgh's
streets.
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| September 2007
- new opening hours |
To cope with increased demand, the Bike Station has
added new opening hours for selling second hand parts.
Details of our opening hours are HERE
We are still open Monday - Saturday for people to drop
off their old bikes.
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| August
2007 - more employers book in Dr Bike |
Yet more of Edinburgh's
employers have booked the Bike Station's Bike Doctors
to help their staff start and keep cycling to work.
Edinburgh Airport and Selex Systems are the latest to
hold workshops for their staff cyclists, helping them
commute to work in a more sustainable way. They join
BSkyB, the Scottish Executive, the Students Award Agency
and Edinburgh University as employers using the Bike
Station to help promote sustainable commuting. For more
information about what we can do to help employers become
more cycle friendly, click here
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| June 2007 - 23
tonnes of bike recycled so far in 2007 |
| Half way through 2007,
the Bike Station has already received 23 tonnes of bike,
exceeding in six months the numbers for the whole of
2005. With Summer still to come, we are set to take
in around 50 tonnes this year - another record. |
| June 2007 - Granton
Youth Centre builds its own bikes! |
With funding from the LIF fund and the City of Edinburgh
Council, participants from Granton Youth Centre are
set to take part in two Build Your Own Bike courses,
the first starting at the end of June. More details
about the Granton Youth Centre can be found here.
For more details about the Build Your Own Bike course,
click here.
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| March 2007 - Woodburn
Youth Group becomes Weldtech accredited |
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4 members of the Woodburn Youth Group in Dalkeith
became the first to be accredited as bike mechanics
through the Weldtech bike maintenance training scheme.
The Woodburn Youth group have now set up their own
bike project in Dalkeith offering bike maintenance
and cycling opportunities in their community. For
more details click here.
Eight young people from Careers Scotland also recently
took a four day training course, successfully completing
either Bronze, Silver or Gold level Weldtech awards.
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| _*January 2007
- *__*LAUNCH OF NEW SCOTTISH “WELDTECH”
BICYCLE MAINTENANCE TRAINING CENTRE - *_ |
Weldtite Products Ltd. are delighted to announce a joint
venture with Edinburgh-based charity the Bike Station.
Following a period of intensive training with Weldtech
trainer Jeff Beach, Weldtite felt that the high level
of skill demonstrated by members of the team warranted
the Platinum Award, the Weldtech Professional Trainers
qualification.
In recognition of their competence Weldtite Products
Ltd. have asked John Ashkam, workshop manager, and
Steve Hynd, training co-ordinator, and the Bike Station
to become the recognised Weldtech training centre
for Scotland, offering training courses up to the
Gold Standard. Steve and John found the Weldtech courses
perfectly suited their organisation and were delighted
to accept the proposal.
As well as the higher level courses suitable for
technicians and enthusiasts, the Weldtech courses
at Red, White and Blue level offer structured bicycle
maintenance training suitable for schoolchildren.
The Bike Station are confident that the range of “Weldtech”
courses will be welcomed by schools and community
groups, as well as professional workshops, meaning
that participants in bike maintenance training courses
will now be able to receive a recognised certificate.
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