re-CYCLE Bike Safety and Maintenance

For the last few years, Streetlinks have been running a bike safety and maintenance project called re-CYCLE. This year, we’re starting on the 5th February with sessions in four locations – Clydebank, Helensburgh, Rosneath and Kilcreaggan.

The aim of the project was to provide young people & adults with the skills & tools needed to enable them to confidently use the cycle paths surrounding West Dunbartonshire and Argyll and Bute. Young people were encouraged through the project to increase their physical activity levels and participate in more outdoor activities.

The sessions were aimed at developing both the practical skills needed for bike maintenance and to provide skills and build confidence & self esteem in young people which would enable them to fully partake in this activity. The outcome of the project has been the ability of young people to be fully involved in delivering it but also in the long term being able to maintain this activity using the skills which they had developed within the project.

This year, young people can take part in re-CYCLE in four different locations – at Centre 82 in Whitecrook, Clydebank, KSRA Kirkmichael in Helensburgh, Rosneath and Kilcreggan (exact venues to be specified later).

The sessions normally involve a few hours of bike safety and basic bike maintentance and then the young people get a chance to decorate their bike – they can either bring their own or we give them one that has been donated specifically for this project. At the end young people are taken for a ride on their bikes to explore local cycle paths.

If you’re interested in taking part in the project, want to find out more or donate bikes, please get in touch.