Our Rusty Riders skills sessions are back! Join instructor Karen for FREE small group sessions to boost your confidence and help you get about by bike more.
We have an evening and a day time sessions:
Weds 7th at 18.30
Friday 16th at 10.30
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πΊ family ride inspiration, including the lovely Discover Yate map (also available to download here on the around your way website aroundyourway.org)
β ask about loaning our cargo bike, towbuddy bar or trailer to help little tired legs explore further
We're open 10-3 see you there!
Looking for some affordable family fun this Easter weekend? Why not pop in to see our volunteers this Saturday for
π² a great selection of pre-loved kids bikes, balance bikes and shiny new Oxford helmets...
πNew month, new opening hours! β°
From this week we are adding an extra TUESDAY afternoon open Hub session to our week:
2-5pm Monday, TUESDAY and Wednesday
10am-3pm Saturday
This also means there are new volunteering opportunities so if you are thinking of helping out why not drop us a line?
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David's Day!
The Welsh national day seems to have brought us a bit more warmth and sunshine so why not celebrate by planning a bike ride?
Come to the hub between 10 and 3 today to get some route inspiration and find out what's on this month.
Image: Tejvan Pettinger
a pair of disc brakes arranged to make an attractive mandala type effect on an upturned blue lunch box
Roll up, roll up it's Wednesday open hub!
Come in and see us from 2-5pm today for pre-loved bikes and accessories, advice and company.
a selection of new helmets and cycling essentials such as inner tubes, locks and lights.
Back copies of the beautifully produced Rouleur magazine to loan or take for a donation
a selection of local maps, front centre is the bright green folded cover of the South Gloucestershire Cycle Map
A selection of cycling books to loan and return or take for a donation
Why not pop into the Hub this Saturday to celebrate that we have collectively made it through the longest month!?
We have lots of lovely bikes, accessories, the best local ride route maps, kids activities, books to snuggle up with & a very warm welcome from our team of awesome volunteers.
A reminder that the Active Travel Forum for Yate, Sodbury and Surrounding Areas has it's AGM tomorrow night at 6.30, Poole Court. Please come along if you'd like to be more involved in making walking, wheeling and cycling easier locally. There might even be cake... ;)
β an asylum seeker or refugee resettled in any area of South Gloucestershire.
If you or someone you know could benefit from this scheme please contact us to find out more.
PS If you are not eligible for this scheme but need a helping hand please do still get in touch, we will always try to help!
β 16+ and in need of support to travel to a work, education, training or skills opportunity such as travel to interviews, open days, jobs fairs, courses, training, work placements, apprenticeships or the first month of a new job.
Participants can access a refurbished bicycle, with an accessory pack (helmet, lights, lock and panniers by request) through the W2W scheme if they are:
β Currently unemployed and seeking employment, education, training or skills (or a change in employment if earning under the living wage).
Have you heard about our Wheels 2 Work Scheme?
Yate Community Bike Hub are pleased to be working with South Gloucestershire Council to deliver a Wheels2Work scheme to help reduce the barriers to work, training and education for residents of Yate, Chipping Sodbury & surrounding areas....
view of the inside of our cosy new hub in North Walk. A row of many bikes stretched from the right foreground to the rear workshop area with the reception desk complete with bunch of yellow sunflowers in the right middle of the shot.
A row of many bikes stretched from the left foreground to the red front door of our new hub in North Walk
Have you paid a visit to our new hub on North Walk yet?
We have a great range of pre-loved bikes, new and second hand accessories oh and the heating is on so why not just pop in for a chat? There might even be biscuits...
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Open every Monday and Wednesday 2-5 and Saturday 10-3
What's on at the Hub this month?
π²4th Police Bike Marking session 10.30-12.30
π§18th Saturday Dr Bike 10.30-2.30
π21st Basic Maintenance course 7-8.30 (book via eventbrite)
π28th Maintenance Practice Session 7-8.30 (book via eventbrite)
Bike part art: a bike wheel decorated with various hand tools and decorative embellishments including a sign saying Nuts About Bikes. This creation livens up our window and was created by the very talented mum of one of our volunteers.
A reminder that the Hub is closed and our social media fairy is off to help the elves until Saturday the 4th of January.
Have a wonderful Christmas time and we'll see you all for more fun on two wheels (or three!) next year
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Mechanic Adam and our young man on work experience proudly stand with a yellow and silver bike that he fettled outside Yate Community Bike Hub
A young man proudly sits on a blue and silver trike that he fettled outside Yate Community Bike Hub
This week we surprised two of our young people on work experience with the gift. They have both been working with our mechanic Adam since the summer but didn't know the last bike & trike they worked on were theirs to keep!
Merry Christmas - we hope these wheels bring you lots of happy miles!
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When your Community Christmas bike ride route ended up being unexpected #bikeart
Tribute to the Muppet Christmas Carol anyone?
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We've been out to reccy the route for our Christmas Lights Ride tomorrow and it couldn't be any more sparkly!
Make sure you wrap up warm, bring your lights and good cheer to join us at 6pm tomorrow.
Welsh Olympic cyclist Emma Finucane, who became the first ever British woman to win three track cycling medals in one Games this summer in Paris. Photo from British Cycling
YCBH were able to re-gift this bike to the Velodrome, ensuring it goes to someone who may not be in a position to buy one, so they can have it as a short term rental until they can get their own.
Who knows, maybe a budding Olympic cyclist might just start out on hub bike #1377? 3/3
Picture of Geraint Thomas, smiling in a dark grey t-shirt with his hands clasped behind his back outside the Velodrome in Newport that was re-named after him. Behind him is a crowd of mixed ages with their hands in the air celebrating
Fortunately we were able to partner with the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome of Wales who have lots of keen young cyclists coming through their sport programme. 2/3
Raleigh equipe track bike in black with pink handlebar tape
Wheely Great Wednesday - supporting the next cycling superstar! π
In July we were gifted a Raleigh Equipe track bike. These bikes are a bit special, designed for use on a velodrome with a fixed gear and no brakes, this bike needed a different sort of next life to most of our pre-loved bikes. 1/3
Have you seen that the All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking is conducting an inquiry into Active Travel and Social Justice? If you'd like to have your say on what currently makes it hard for you to cycle for everyday travel you send your experiences in tinyurl.com/APPGCWrespond
handsome ginger cat balanced on a bike saddle having climbed up via the yellow pannier during the riders' briefing for our community cycle training
but don't let anyone tell you that you can't learn! (as evidenced by your doppleganger joined our Rusty Riders training this autumn)
Events poster with details of the upcoming things that are on at the Hub (as listed in the text of the main post)
What's on at the Hub this month?
π²13th Christmas lights ride 6-7pm
π§14th Saturday Dr Bike 10.30-2.30
π17th Basic Maintenance course 7-8.30 (book via eventbrite)
π21st Dec last open hub session before the winter break
4th Jan Hub re-opens for 2025 with police bike marking 10.30-12.30
shop front with red double bay windows and central door. Lit from inside bikes and accessories can be seen
a shop display of cycling accessories, helmets locks and light (with some boxes still to unpack!)
our mission banner (Recycle, Skillls, Advice, Community) on the wall above a display of pre-loved bikes ready to go to their new homes
AND WE ARE IN!
Thanks to the tremendous work of our volunteers we are now in our new home at 16 North Walk Yate Shopping Centre !
Please bear with us as we finish setting up but we'd be so happy to welcome you to our new space from Monday 2nd December
Paris not messing around with signs only for their school streets but going for full pedestrianisation. Much like the 1970s when the UK was still using ineffective signs to regulate play streets and the Dutch had moved onto removing through traffic and redesigning the street.
Volunteers taking out the former changing room to prepare the bike repair workshop space. Image shows two men hard at work pointing at the floor in a half demolished cubby space
our lovely black rubber workshop flooring was rescued from our current hub and re-laid. Image shows rubber matting stretching across back half of a narrow shop unit with two bike workstands and some storage units in place on top and some bikes in storage in the distance
the outside of our new hub, double fronted red framed windows with black kick boards underneath and a central door illuminated from within. a volunteer in blue jumper can be seen working in the back of the unit and bikes and accessories are visible through the window
Just one week to go until our big move and our volunteers and mechanic Adam have been working really hard to prepare the Hub #5 at 16 North Walk. It's coming along nicely, don't you think?
Our last day in our current unit will be this Saturday (30th Nov) - tell all your friends!
We've got some exciting news - after almost two years in on South Walk we are on the move again!
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From the 1st of December you'll find us at 16 North Walk in the former British Heart Foundation shop (with the red front next to the Blue Cross shop and opposite Karizma salon).
