The Love Your Bike campaign is based in Greater Manchester. We aim to promote cycling and to help make it an attractive, accessible and fun way to get around. Cycling is far more than a leisure activity: it is the low-carbon transport of the future. Co-ordinated by Manchester Friends of the Earth, we aim to work closely with other like-minded organisations.
Bike Friday
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Our monthly Bike Friday cycle-to-work rides are for all. The starting points are:
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Getting Moving: A Manifesto
Created by Love Your Bike, ‘Getting Moving’ brings together a range of organisations in Greater Manchester in support of getting more people cycling for more of their journeys.
Pocket Guide to Cycling
New to cycling or returning to your bike? Download our Pocket Guide to Cycling.
Bike Month MCR 2013
Manchester celebrates all things cycling with a month of bike activities across the city. Kicking off with a special Go Dutch cycle ride from Whitworth Park, bike polo, bike maintenance, great bike rides and a giant bike in the Manchester Day Parade. BikeMonthMcr ends with the GM Cycle event riding on a car free Mancunian Way! There are over 60 events during the 30 days of June.
To join in take a look at the full listing, and take the 30 day pledge, both launching on this website on Monday 27th May.
News
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Fed up with trucks that are too big for our streets? Well they could be about to get bigger!May 16, 2013
A small and unnoticed change in European rules could let massive new mega-trucks – which are up to 25 metres, or 80 feet, long – into the UK. The European Commission, which is pushing for this change, itself admits they are dangerous, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists. The trucks also damage roads and create unfair competition for more environmentally-friendly freight-on-rail. …read more |
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Cycling City Ambition grant – make your support visible!April 29, 2013
Tomorrow (30th April) the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) will be submitting a bid to the Department for Transport’s Cycle City Ambition Grant. To encourage people to support the bid and call for bold and ambitious targets Love Your Bike has set up an independent petition on Change.org [1]. …read more |
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Show your support for Greater Manchester’s Cycling City Ambition Grant bidApril 26, 2013
Love Your Bike urges people to support Greater Manchester’s Cycling City Ambition Grant bid. We believe a great city has to be a safe city for people who cycle. …read more |
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Get Manchester cycling – time to show our ambitionApril 25, 2013
On Friday 26th April, Love Your Bike are inviting people to join one of the Bike Friday cycle routes to show their support for the recommendations in the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group report ‘Get Britain Cycling’. [1] They can also sign an online e-petition calling on the Prime Minister to support the report’s recommendations. [2] …read more |
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E-petition: show your support for the ‘Get Britain Cycling’ recommendationsApril 24, 2013
Today (24th April) saw the launch of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (APPCG) report ‘Get Britain Cycling’. The report was published, following extensive public evidence from over 100 individuals and organisations, including cycling organisations, the Automobile Association, and a wide range of government departments and ministers. …read more |
