THIS YEAR IS the tenth anniversary of Reading’s Bicycle (or Bike) Kitchen, where volunteers assist you to maintain and repair your cycle. They run maintenance courses and accept donations of bicycles to be reconditioned and sold (or given away to those in need) to fund this amazing project.
If you have a cycle or parts of a cycle lurking in the garage you don’t want anymore, or which the children have outgrown, then please consider donating it to the Bicycle Kitchen. Contact them on info@readingbicyclekitchen.org
If you’d like to get the cycles out of the garage and onto the road again, but you don’t know how to do the necessary repairs and maintenance, then come to the Reading Bike Kitchen on Saturday mornings between 10:00 and 14:00, and the volunteers will teach you how to make those repairs and get you and your family safely on the move again. It will cost you £10/hr for their time, plus the cost of any replacement parts (some second hand).
Finally, if you are looking to buy a second-hand bike, then please go along to the Kitchen and see if one of their reconditioned bikes would do. You’ll have the confidence the bike has been fully checked for safety, as well as helping to keep the project going. Any surplus money raised goes to local charities.
The Bicycle Kitchen is at Unit C10, Weldale Street, RG1 7BX.
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