Bike Week 2007

Bike Week 2007 (16 - 24 June)

On Your Bike for Bike Week 2007!

Logo: Bike Week 2007

Bike Week is the only UK annual 'celebration of cycling' and it is coming to a town near you!

Bike Week will take place during 16-24 June this year. More than 1,500 local cycling events and rides are expected to attract at least 250,000 participants, half of whom will be new or returning to cycling. Among many other activities, events and rides for cyclists of all abilities, Bike Week will include pre-Bike Week cycling skills training and 'Dr Bike' free cycle safety checks to help get 'more people cycling more often'.
This year Bike Week is promoting cycling as 'the' everyday sport. Many fun events will be aimed at novice or lapsed cyclists, including children and young families. Hundreds of Bike2Work rides are being organised by local authorities, NHS trusts, other employers and workplace bicycle user groups, helping to reduce the number of unnecessary daily car journeys by commuters.

Photo: Children on bikes with safety helmets

Most Bike Week events are free to enter. Some will raise funds for charities, including Leukaemia Research. Organisers range from local authorities to cycling clubs, National Cycle Network volunteer rangers to campaigning groups.

To find out about Bike Week and Bike2Work events, please see http://www.bikeweek.org.uk (or phone 0845 612 0661), where all of the registered events and rides will be listed.

The first national Bike Week was held in 1923. Last year more than 1,700 events attracted 265,000 cyclists. Bike Week is organised for 19 organisations (see below), funded by UK governments (England, London, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) and sponsored by the cycle industry's Bike Hub.

Issued by Bike Week & Bike2Work UK Co-ordinator Nick Harvey, phone 01243 527444, mobile 07730 438082, email nick@bikeweek.org.uk

Copyright-free photos, Bike Week and Bike2Work logos, etc are available from http://www.bikeweek.org.uk on request.

Bike Week 2007 incorporating Bike2Work is co-ordinated and promoted for:

  • Association for Commuter Transport
  • Association of Cycle Traders
  • Bicycle Association
  • British Cycling
  • British Schools Cycling Association
  • CTC - the UK's national cyclists' organisation
  • Cycle Campaign Network
  • Cycling England
  • Cycling Scotland
  • Cycling Time Trials
  • Forestry Commission
  • Living Streets
  • Local Authority Cycling Association
  • London Cycling Campaign
  • The National Byway
  • National TravelWise Association
  • Ordnance Survey
  • Sustrans
  • Welsh Walking & Cycling Forum.

Bike Week is a company limited by guarantee, Reg. No. 4910069. Reg. Office: 2 Newhams Row, London, SE1 3UZ.