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We can provide Rickshaws for both private and public events. It could be for your organisation or for your special event, birthday, wedding etc etc.
We can provide a rickshaw and adbikes service for anything really! Get in touch and lets us know how we can help.
Happy New Year and Happy Cycling from Free Wheel North.
2012 promises to be an exciting year for us. With new storage at the Green our fleet of bikes is getting bigger. We now have a beautiful side by side hand crank tandem and go cart -style bikes on the way.
Lots of groups including Deaf Blind Scotland as still braving the elements and coming down for rides – despite the cold the sun has been shining plenty – what better way to spend the day than out for a ride in the park?
Our led rides are off to a good start in the spring, with sessions planned in partnership with:
Urban Roots, Toryglen, http://www.urbanroots.org.uk
Playbusters, Gallowgate http://www.playbusters.org.uk
Easterhouse Phoenix Development http://www.epdl.org/News.aspx
Village Square, Govan http://themeetingsquare.wordpress.com
Join us for a celebration of local food being hosted by local community gardens – at Woodlands Community Garden, Saturday 8th October 12-4pm.
Free Wheel North is once more providing free group cycle rides for the final Glasgow Harvest event led by trained cycle leaders.
Meeting at 12 noon at the North Kelvin Meadow entrance on Clouston Street (Please note change of meeting point, NOT at Glasgow Green) we will be cycling a safe and pleasant route to Woodlands Community Garden on West Princes St via the River Kelvin, returning for 4pm.
Please bring your bike and helmet or borrow one from us for the day (in which case call Michelle Letowska on 07951 969394 or email michelleletowska@freewheelnorth.org.uk)
Get more information by visiting NVA and also Woodlands Community Garden
How to Join In?
Donate surplus produce you have grown! Got any spare fruit or veggies? Bring them along so they can be turned into puddings, soups, pakora or other delights by a team of local cooks
Make food to share in a huge open air meal! Bring a vegetarian dish to share, featuring at least one locally grown ingredient.
Bring a jar to the tasting station! Make your own jam, chutney, pickles or preserves and bring a jar, along with the recipe, for a mass tasting. Oatcakes, crackers and cheese provided!
See you there.
Our first harvest ride to Urban Roots in Toryglen was enjoyed by us all, loads of lovely free food was cooked up by some brilliant chefs and the Arran cheese stall. Which was a big hit with Alec.
We rode the rickshaw around and picked up some punters who weren’t going to let us off without some serious pedal work!
Judith doing some hard work on the Rickshaw!
A great day with live music, a puppet show and freshly pressed apple juice – what more could we ask for!
Roll on next Saturday when the next Harvest ride takes us up to Kennyhill allotments for more fresh food and cycling.
Get in touch if you want to join us.
Free Wheel North took part in Green Streets Toryglen on Sunday, a fun day of games, workshops and information about making sustainable transport alternatives possible for everyone.
Two groups rode over, one from Baillieston and another from Glasgow Green to join in fun and sample the great lunch provided by Urban Roots. Highlights included the Clydeside Horse rides, Pedal powered smoothies and the amazing 7 seater conference bike.
Free Wheel North also took part in a community transport discussion with a Strathclyde Passenger Transport representative, a green councillor and a number of people from Toryglen with great ideas for improving public transport and conditions for cyclists.
Thanks to all at Urban Roots and all the ride leaders and young people for making it a great day.
The Accord is a day care facility in the East End of Glasgow that supports more than one hundred and twenty children and adults with severe learning disabilities. It is going to be demolished to make way for a car park for the Commonwealth Games. Service-users and carers were promised an equivalent centre would be built when the Commonwealth Games were announced. This promise is not being fulfilled.
The carers at the Accord centre alongside local residents, campaigners and the service users themselves have launched an inspirational campaign to demand that either the Accord stays open or a like for like replacement is given.
Free Wheel North were asked by service users come to our Cycling Centre on Glasgow Green if we could bring our adapted bikes up the the Save the Accord Campaign demonstration which marched through the East End on Saturday the 27th of August.
Over 500 people attended, including a brilliant samba band, and there was enormous local support for the campaign.
A celebration of Urban food growing and feasting…and cycling!
Glasgow Harvest is a celebration of local food being hosted by community gardens in the South, East, North and West of the city this autumn.
Free Wheel North is providing free group cycle rides to each of the Glasgow Harvest events led by trained cycle leaders.
Meeting at 11am at the Free Wheel North Cycle Centre next to the adventure playground (opposite the Templeton Building) in Glasgow Green and returning by 4pm.
You can bring your own bike and helmet or borrow one from us for the day (bikes with child seats available)
For more information or to book a place please call Michelle Letowska on 07951 969394 during office hours Monday and Thursday or email michelleletowska@freewheelnorth.org.uk
To find out about other led cycle rides to the Harvest events that are happening in your local area see.www.bikeeventsscotland.com
Each celebration will feature live music, communal cooking, food sharing, workshops and competitions. New work by visual artists will draw inspiration from the people and garden spaces that make urban growing in Glasgow so unique.
Saturday 10 September Harvest South and Blasta meal, hosted by Urban Roots
Saturday 17 September Harvest East, hosted by Kennyhill Community Allotments
Saturday 24 September Harvest North, hosted by The Concrete Garden
Saturday 8 October Harvest West, hosted by Woodlands Community Garden
All events 12-4pm
FREE ENTRY
The FWN is the main sponsor of GRCM a cycling club/group set up to promote cycling in Glasgow for adults. The club/group has been going well and in the last three months it has reached 84 members with over 25 rides done! However there is still very much to do.
It is hoped that the cycling club/group will be more open to adults with fair cycling fitness because at the moment a good/moderate level of fitness is required. We are looking for people to get involved and hope we can arrange cycling outings of all levels to everyone. We have over 12 members doing the Pedal for Scotland! So we know that the demand is there, we just need people/members to get involved more.
In wanting to promote the club/group and the FWN we have developed and designed a cycle jersey with Impsport UK. The jersey will be available to all GRCM members and all FWN staff and volunteers.
If you like we would be happy to supply you with a cycle jersey to support the FWN. The cost will be around £45, please contact us for more information.
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