This year we were thrilled to partner with Bike for Good.
A Glasgow based cycling charity, Bike for Good aim to enable more people to cycle by offering refurbishing and repairing services as well as teaching communities how to ride and maintain bikes.
Their mission is to ensure that everyone benefits from more people cycle and not just the cyclists; from safer and more accessible streets to reduced harmful emissions and cleaner air.
During the festival, they offered free ‘Dr Bike’ maintenance sessions at our festival hub which saw over 30 bikes serviced. They created four festival friendly cycle routes across the city and offered guided rides enabling visitors to explore Glasgow’s heritage on two wheels.
They also brought our mobile ‘Air We Breathe’ exhibition to festival locations across the city, helping tell the story of Glasgow’s changing air quality over the past 300 million years!
Visit bikeforgood.org.uk to find us more about the wonderful work they do.
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The mission of bike for good is a vision of a city where everyone benefits from cycling. So that’s not just the people who choose to travel by bike, but everyone in terms of the way we change the architecture of our cities, making it more accessible, having cleaner air, and genuinely more free from busy motorized traffic. So for this festival, Bike forgood are delivering some doctor bikes, which is where if you want to bring your own bike along, we have some mechanics who will do some gentle tuneups and repairs. If you have some sort of issue with your bike, I think a lot of people uh might be tempted to just put the bike in the shed or leave the bike locked up, but because you have a doctor bike service, it gives you the confidence to hit the road again. We’ve also designed some very safe cycle routes that take in some of the larger venues and then we have some guided rides where you can come along and under the safety of our ride leaders we’ll be there to support you. At the moment we’re having the mobile exhibition uh which is a history of clean and dirty air in Glasgow. So it goes all the way back to 320 million years ago and it comes all the way up to the industrial revolution, the huge air pollution that followed. The big thing now is trying to tackle the emissions of vehicles within the city center which cause a really really considerable amount of premature deaths. Um, and it’s really something we want to get on top of in this city.