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Green Week & Bike Week Family Fun Ride!

Join us on Sunday 9th June for our Green Week & Bike Week Family Fun Ride!

We’ll have a very gentle 3 mile family fun ride, for everyone from 5 to 95 – we’ll go at the speed of the slowest! More adventurous riders could add a ride down the Billy Trail.

It’s one of our events for Havant Green Week (Sat 8th – Sun 16th June) & Cycling UK Bike Week (Mon 10th – Sun 16th June)
And you can’t get much greener than a Green Week bike ride!

Free ice cream for the best blinged bike and the best young rider!

  • Start and finish at the Hayling Community Centre
  • Meet there at 10:30am, Sunday 9-June.
  • We’ll have a very quick bike check and safety briefing.
  • Then we’ll ride very gently on cycle paths and Hayling’s quieter roads to the beach near Chichester Avenue.
  • We’ll have a little rest there, maybe you’ll want to buy an ice cream.
  • Then we’ll ride along the beach tracks, and then to the top of the Billy Trail.
  • More adventurous riders could add their own ride down the Billy Trail.
  • We’ll finish back at the Community Centre in Hayling Park, with a chance to buy an ice cream, coffee, lunch or a picnic if you bring your own.
  • We’ve just discovered the café there is closed for refurbishment – we’ll find somewhere close, perhaps West Town Inn or Three Bean Café.
  • And you’ll be part of Hayling’s second ever CycleBus !

A few important conditions:

  • You ride at your own risk!
  • Under 16’s must bring a responsible adult.
  • Check your bikes first – see cyclehayling.org/checks.
  • E-bikes, e-cargo bikes and trailers welcome.
  • Expect a few rough surfaces.
  • We’ll try and help with bike problems, but we’ll be short on tools, spares and time.
  • We think helmets are a good idea, especially for kids, but it’s your choice.
  • Leave the ride the ride at any point – but please tell us!

Run jointly by Cycle Hayling and Portsmouth CTC (Cycle Touring Club).

If you have any questions, email Wilf Forrow at wilf@cyclehayling.org.

You can see our Cycle Map of Hayling here.

Hoping to see you there!

Roger Knight, Wilf Forrow and the Cycle Hayling committee.

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Funding cuts

At last, we have a £700,000 plan to restore the Billy Trail to it’s full destiny, but that’s only the first stretch. We will need much more to finish the job.

But this disastrous government has suddenly slashed active travel funding by two-thirds with no warning, against all their strategies for active travel and health. How can councils plan like that? Continue reading “Funding cuts”

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Cycle Hayling Celebration Ride this Sunday!

Join Cycle Hayling this Sunday for a celebration social ride around Hayling! Everyone is welcome, we’re family friendly, and you can choose your own speed and distance.

What are we celebrating? Well mainly the £700,000 investment in the Hayling Billy Trail, but also Bike Week’s 100th anniversary (June 5-11), and Havant Green Week (June 10-18)!

Here’s what’s happening:

  • Meet 10am, Sunday 11-June, at the Hayling Community Centre.
  • We’ll ride gently down the Hayling Billy Trail to the bridge and regroup there (2.5 miles).
  • You can ride round the Northney Loop with us to Yew Tree Rd (5.5 miles)
    or you can ride back down the Billy Trail on your own (5 miles).
  • From the Yew Tree pub, we’ll make Hayling’s first ever CycleBus to cycle safely down the main road to Mill Rythe School.
  • But if you’d rather, we’ll give you two footpath options and meet up at Mill Rythe School.
  • We’ll then ride the ‘Old Cinder Track’ cycle path up to Mengham (7.5 miles).
  • Then on to the seafront and along to the Ferry Boat Inn to end the ride with a chat about improving cycling on Hayling, and optionally a drink (11 miles).
  • You’re 2 miles from Mengham – ride back at your leisure, or make another CycleBus !
  • You can join or leave the ride the ride at any point – but please tell someone so we can keep count!

A few important conditions:

  • You ride at your own risk.
  • Under 16’s must bring a responsible adult.
  • Check your bikes first, at cyclehayling.org/checks.
  • It’s Hayling, so expect some rough surfaces.
  • We’ll try and help with bike problems, but we’ll be short on tools, spares and time.
  • We think helmets are a good idea, especially for kids, but it’s your choice.

You can see our Cycle Map of Hayling here.

If you have any questions, email Wilf at wilf@cyclehayling.org.

This Saturday, we’re also offering e-bike and e-cargo bike trial rides – come and try them out at our Green Week fair at St Albans School, just north of Havant station.

Hoping to see you this Sunday (and maybe Saturday too)!

Wilf Forrow and the Cycle Hayling committee.