Bike To School Week 2021
- 24th September 2021
- Steven
- ActivitiesBike SafetyBikeTownCommunityCommutingEnvironmentEventsHealthInfrastructure
Hands up who wants to get active on the school run! Bike to School Week starts next week and runs from...
Love Your Bike: Free Safety Checks
- 9th August 2021
- Steven
- ActivitiesBike SafetyCommunityEventsHealth
On the last weekend of every month we offer Free Safety Checks at BikeTown. Our friendly & experienced mechanics will give...

Disc brakes: are they for you?
British Cycling made the decision this week that they will allow the use disc brakes in all road competitions from 2018....

Print money, and lose weight, by cycling!
A Danish study has found that “active commuting” burns as many calories as a daily visit to the...

Winter cycling tips part two: the clothing
- 27th October 2017
- BikeTown
- Bike SafetyBikeTownHealth
Following on from last week, it’s important to understand that it’s not just your bike that needs to be ready...

Winter is coming: get prepared!
- 20th October 2017
- BikeTown
- Bike SafetyBikeTown
“The nights are fair drawin’ in,” goes the cry! And in a shameless Game of Thrones reference, it is true...

Choosing the tyre that’s right for you
- 11th October 2017
- BikeTown
- Bike SafetyBikeTown
Your bike has a few consumables, by consumables, we mean parts that eventually wear out, and you have to replace...

The kitbag dilemma
- 23rd September 2017
- BikeTown
- Bike SafetyBikeTownCommuting
You’ve got your bike, your cycling clothes, you know where you’re going, but do you have the tools to get you...

Women: Start your bicycle engines!
- 23rd August 2017
- BikeTown
- ActivitiesBike SafetyCommunity
A sunny Sunday in Kennoway saw a new Scottish Women’s Road Race Champion crowned. Take a bow Julie Erskine, Queen...

Cycling to work reduces stress! – who’d have thunk it?
Researchers from Concordia University in Montreal have been comparing different modes of travel taken during peoples commute to work and has...