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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

On Friday 22nd March, Love Your Bike are inviting people to join one of the Bike Friday cycle routes and discover that cycling is truly divine. [1] Spring is here and with the days getting longer and warmer, Love Your … Continue reading →

In March 2013, the Bike Friday rides will take place on Friday the 22nd (as the 29th is Good Friday). To show that cycling is Divine, everyone who cycles on a Bike Friday ride will get some free Divine chocolate. … Continue reading →

On Valentine’s Day (14th February), the Love Your Bike campaign will be launching “Love It Lock It” to encourage people to keep their love for their bike alive by securing it with a good quality lock. [1]

Bike RIDE: 25 miles with pub-stop: Portland Basin to Marple via Werneth Low – Canal, Lanes & Hill, superb views, suit hybrids / mountain bikes.

Love Your Bike would like to cordially invited you to a Bike Fabulous Christmas shopping soirée at Keep Pedalling in the Northern Quarter, on Thursday 13th December. 

Love Your Bike submitted the response below to ‘Get Britain Cycling‘ on 7th December 2012.

If you’re starting to feel festive and wondering what Santa might bring, or just looking for a great gift for that cyclist in your life, then take inspiration from these fabulous ideas…

With cycle safety and bike security having a high profile in Parliament, national and local media in recent weeks, Love Your Bike [1] is disappointed that only two of the five Police and Crime Commissioner candidates for Greater Manchester provided … Continue reading →

On Thursday 15th November, residents of Greater Manchester will have the opportunity to vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections for the Greater Manchester Police commissioner. Love Your Bike believes there is an important role for the Police and Crime … Continue reading →

The All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (APPCG) is calling for evidence for an inquiry entitled: “Get Britain Cycling”. The inquiry will examine the barriers which are preventing more people from cycling in the UK. Cycling makes up 2% of all … Continue reading →

On Friday 26th October, Love Your Bike are inviting people to join one of the Bike Friday cycle routes and ‘light up their day’. [1]   With the clocks going back on Sunday 28th October and with the darker nights drawing … Continue reading →

On Sunday 29th July, 7 volunteers cycled 48 miles from Manchester to Chester to raise money to support the campaigns of Manchester Friends of the Earth.

Following on from the success of last years sponsored cycle ride from Manchester to Blackpool, why not join us for the Manchester to Chester Bike Ride? Join in the fun cycling this great 48 mile route, starting from Platts Field … Continue reading →

Shoppers in Manchester Arndale on Saturday 23rd June were treated to the third Bike Fabulous cycle style event, promoting cool cycling with the motto ‘cycle wear, cycle everywhere’.

Fancy a preview of some of the outfits we are planning for this weekend’s Bike Fabulous event?

The morning of Friday 8th June, saw 35+ people attend a breakfast launch event at Kro Piccadilly to promote ‘Getting Moving: A Manifesto for Cycling In Greater Manchester’.

On Friday 30th March, Love Your Bike are inviting people to join one of the Bike Friday ‘cycle to work’ rides [1] to support the launch of ‘Getting Moving: A Manifesto for Cycling In Greater Manchester’.

Created by Love Your Bike and supported by a range of businesses and organisations in Greater Manchester and nationally, Getting Moving argues for bold measures to make Greater Manchester a cycling city.

In December, the Love Your Bike team were invited to the town hall for a very special award ceremony, the Be Proud Love Manchester awards.

On Friday 25th November, during Road Safety Week [1], Love Your Bike are inviting people to join one of the Bike Friday cycle routes and call on Greater Manchester local authorities to introduce a 20mph speed limit policy to help … Continue reading →

Following the successful bid to the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) would like to ask for your thoughts regarding additional and improved cycle parking facilities for Manchester City Centre and other towns throughout Greater Manchester.

Thursday 22nd September is World Carfree Day and Manchester Friends of the Earth is inviting people in Greater Manchester to give their car the day off and try alternative ways of travelling to work [1].

22nd September is World Car Free Day. If you normally drive to work, why not try a different mode of transport. Walking and cycling are cheap and get you fit, and public transport gives you time to read the paper… … Continue reading →

We took park in Park(ing) Day and transformed a city centre parking space to make it sociable, fun and colourful.

Get2 Challenge – How do you Get2 work or college? Get to work or college a different, healthier way during European Mobility Week (16th – 22nd September), record your journeys here and be in with a chance to win some … Continue reading →

The results of a survey of 490 cyclists in June 2011 are available.

Our Bike Friday rides on 26th August took part in We Love MCR Day . We love Manchester and that’s why you choose healthy, pollution-free transport.

On Sunday 10th July, an intrepid band of Manchester Friends of the Earth supporters cycled the 55 miles to sunny Blackpool to fundraise for Manchester FoE’s campaigning work. The riders saw a mixture of rain and shine, but mostly the … Continue reading →

…Graeme Sherriff, transport campaign co-ordinator at Manchester Friends of the Earth, said it was ‘a shame’ the firms seemed unwilling to transport fund-raisers. Read the full Manchester Evening News article.

Love Your Bike welcomes today’s announcement by Norman Baker M.P (Transport Minister) that Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) £4.9 million key component bid for the GM Commuter Cycle project has been successful.

On Sunday 10th July, thirteen intrepid Manchester Friends of the Earth supporters will cycle 55 miles from Manchester to Blackpool to raise funds to support the organisation’s environmental campaigning work. [1]

Saturday 25th June saw the second of our cycle style events in Manchester Arndale under the Bike Fabulous banner.

Manchester Friends of the Earth welcomed the decision by the Transport for Greater Manchester committee (TfGMC) to keep the Trans-Pennine Trail within the Metrolink corridor in Didsbury and continue to enable access for all. Read full article in Bury Focus.

Manchester Friends of the Earth today welcomed the decision by the Transport for Greater Manchester committee (TfGMC) to keep the Trans-Pennine Trail within the Metrolink corridor in Didsbury and continue to enable access for all. [1]

…Other events are planned in Manchester for National Bike Week, including a fashion show – Bike Fabulous. Read full Manchester Evening News article.

With the rising costs of petrol and diesel very much in the news, cycling to work has never been such an attractive option. Not only is it quick, it is also cheap. On Friday 27 May, the Love Your Bike … Continue reading →

With the rising costs of petrol and diesel very much in the news [1], cycling to work has never been such an attractive option. Not only is it quick, it is also cheap.

Plans to build steps part way along a 215 mile bike trail have been dropped after an outcry by cyclists. …Read full article.

  On the morning of Friday 25th March, Love Your Bike campaigners invited the director of Metrolink to join them in trying to cycle up and down the steps outside GMPTE’s officers. He politely declined the invitation.

Campaigners this morning challenged Metrolink chief Philip Purdy to push a pram and ride a bike up the steps in front of his office. The stunt outside the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive’s premises at Piccadilly Place, organised by Manchester … Continue reading →

Manchester Friends of the Earth is dismayed at GMPTE’s decision to continue with plans to install a series of steps into the Trans-Pennine Trail which would create a major barrier to local people and visitors enjoying the popular traffic-free walking … Continue reading →

A proposal to re-route the Trans Pennine Trail up and over a road bridge by using steps rather than ramps has been heavily criticised by user groups including Sustrans.  Read the full article.

Cyclists and green campaigners say cost-cutting plans to put steps over a new Metrolink line will sever a national trail…. Read the full article

Manchester Friends of the Earth is dismayed at GMPTE’s decision to continue with plans to install a series of steps into the Trans-Pennine Trail which would create a major barrier to local people and visitors enjoying the popular traffic-free walking … Continue reading →

Hundreds of cyclists dressed in red made their way across Manchester as part of a campaign to raise awareness of pedal power’s health benefits. …Read the full article.

THE ‘Love Your Bike’ campaign and Wythenshawe Hospital have teamed up to encourage people to get on their bikes. To mark British Heart Foundation’s ‘Wear Red Day’ there was a ‘Bike Friday’ cycle ride headed off from Exchange Square in … Continue reading →

Manchester cyclists joined together to raise awareness of the health benefits of cycling for ‘Bike Friday’ last week. The ‘Love Your Bike’ campaign and the University of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust teamed up to encourage people to get on … Continue reading →

Friday 25th February 2011 is Wear Red Day as part of National Heart Month. Bike Friday participants wore red to raise awareness about the heart health benefits of cycling raising money for the British Heart Foundation.

On the morning of Friday 25 February, the Love Your Bike campaign and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM) are teaming up to raise awareness of the health benefits of cycling and are encouraging people to join … Continue reading →

On Friday 25th February, the Love Your Bike campaign is raising awareness of the health benefits of cycling to celebrate the 50th birthday of the British Heart Foundation. As part of ‘National Wear Red Day’ [1] they will be riding … Continue reading →

The Love Your Bike campaign is inviting the people of Greater Manchester to take part in Bike Friday on Friday 28 January….Read full article.

Christmas Eve (24th December) is the last day for people to comment on the Local Transport Plan (LTP3) consultation. The new LTP will set the direction for road travel, public transport (buses, trains and Metrolink) and walking & cycling in … Continue reading →

Local campaigning group, Love Your Bike, is reminding Manchester residents there are just four days left in  which to comment on Local Transport Plan (LTP3) consultation.  …Read full article.

Friday 26th November, sees the last Bike Friday ‘led’ cycle rides of 2010 and cyclists will be converging on the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) main offices to lobby for active travel (walking and cycling) policies to be given … Continue reading →

Photo opportunity: Friday 26th Nov. 8.40am. Cycle campaigners hand in letter to Councillor Ian Macdonald (GMITA chair), Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BG

Friday 26th November, sees the last Bike Friday ‘led’ cycle rides of 2010 and cyclists will be converging on the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) main offices to lobby for active travel (walking and cycling) policies to be given … Continue reading →

Love Your Bike is disappointed by yesterday’s decision by the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) Policy and Resources committee to continue the ban on cycle carriage on the Metrolink trams. [1] The campaign believes that the decision signals a … Continue reading →

On Friday 19th November the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) Policy and Resources committee will vote on a recommendation to continue the ban on Bikes on Trams. Love Your Bike campaigners believe that GMITA transport policy is heading in … Continue reading →

A group of bicycle lovers has challenged the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority to end its ban on bikes on the city’s Metrolink system…..Read full article.

Manchester’s cyclists are preparing to challenge Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority’s (GMITA) ongoing ban on taking bicycles on the city’s Metrolink tram system….Read full article.

On Friday 19 November the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) Policy and Resources committee will vote on a recommendation to continue the ban on Bikes on Trams. Love Your Bike campaigners believe that GMITA transport policy is heading in … Continue reading →

Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) Policy and Resources Committee will vote on a recommendation to continue to ban bikes on trams, tomorrow (Friday 19 November 2010). …Read full article.

On Friday 26th November, the last Bike Friday of 2010, cyclists converged on the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) main offices to lobby for active travel (walking and cycling) policies to be given a high priority in the next … Continue reading →

With the clocks going back this weekend and with evenings getting darker,  Bike Friday would like people to continue enjoying the freedom of cycling in Greater Manchester…. Read the full article.

With the clocks going back on Sunday 31st October and with evenings getting darker – all road users need to take extra care and look out for others.

The award-winning Manchester-based campaign Love your Bike is organising a mass, city-wide cycling action for commuters next week, ahead of World Carfree Day.   …Read full article.

On Tuesday 21st September, as part of European Mobility Week (1) and to promote World Carfree Day, Love Your Bike volunteers will be encouraging people across Greater Manchester to leave their cars at home for the day and try cycling … Continue reading →

The Love Your Bike campaign is encouraging people from across Greater Manchester to take advantage of the traffic-free roads during Skyride Manchester and give cycling a go on Sunday 1st August. [1]

During Bike Week 2010 (19th – 27th June), Love Your Bike has teamed up with CycleGM to encourage people across Greater Manchester to take the GM Cycle Commute Challenge. Cycle to work at least once during Bike Week and people … Continue reading →

Bike Fabulous is our fashion show for bikes. Continue reading →

Cycle wear, cycle everywhere Manchester FoE promotes cycling style.

Today is Bike to work day and to coincide with it Love Your Bike is welcoming the announcement by Manchester City Council that it is launching an Adult Cycle Training project  to help encourage more people to cycle in Manchester.  … Continue reading →

Love Your Bike welcomes the announcement by Manchester City Council as part of the Bike Week celebrations that it is launching an Adult Cycle Training project at the Bike to Work day on Tuesday 22 June to help encourage more … Continue reading →

On Friday 25th June, as part of Bike Week 2010, Bike Friday are inviting people in Greater Manchester to join one of the Bike Friday cycle routes and ‘Cycle in Style’ to highlight how well style and function can be … Continue reading →

Love Your Bike welcomes the announcement by Manchester City Council as part of the Bike Week celebrations that it is launching an Adult Cycle Training project at the Bike to Work day on Tuesday 22nd June to help encourage more … Continue reading →

On Saturday (26 June 2010), the Bike Fabulous cycle fashion show will provide a showcase for a range of stylish and functional bicycles, clothing and accessories and will demonstrate to Manchester Arndale visitors how easy it is to cycle in … Continue reading →

On Saturday 26th June, the Bike Fabulous cycle fashion show will provide a showcase for a range of stylish and functional bicycles, clothing and accessories and will demonstrate to Manchester Arndale visitors how easy it is to cycle in style. … Continue reading →

The 19th of  June is the start of National Bike Week and Manchester has some great events lined up. Love Your Bike has teamed up with Manchester City Council and Cycle GM to organise a range of number of events.  … Continue reading →

During Bike Week 2010 (June 19th – 27th), Love Your Bike has teamed up with Manchester City Council and CycleGM to organise a range of BikeTastic events.

On Friday 28th May, Bike Friday participants will be cycling into Manchester City Centre to help promote World Environment Day events in Greater Manchester. [1] Organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Environment Day takes place in countries … Continue reading →

Bike Friday participants will be cycling into Manchester City Centre to help promote World Environment Day events in Greater Manchester on Friday 28 May. …Read full article.

Love Your Bike and Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC) have today released the results of a ‘cycling issues’ survey that was sent to local council candidates in every ward across Greater Manchester [1].  The survey asked candidates their views on … Continue reading →

Love Your Bike and Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC) have today released the results of a ‘cycling issues’ survey that was sent to local council candidates in every ward across Greater Manchester. The survey asked candidates their views on a … Continue reading →

Photo Opportunity: Friday 30th April, 8.30am at Exchange Square, Ballot Box and Vote for Cycling ballot papers. On Friday April 30th as part of the Bike Friday rides, the Love Your Bike and Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC) are encouraging … Continue reading →

The Love Your Bike campaign is encouraging local companies and people across Greater Manchester to take part in national Walk to Work Week (26th – 30th April).  …Read full article.

The Love Your Bike campaign is encouraging local companies and people across Greater Manchester to take part in national Walk to Work Week (26th – 30th April). [1] This years’ theme is ‘Get fit without the hassle’ and the organisers … Continue reading →

Three in four cyclists in Manchester say that bus drivers pass too close to them when overtaking, while two in three criticise them for pulling away from bus stops without looking.  ..Read full article.

The Love Your Bike campaign is releasing the results of a survey in which they asked Greater Manchester cyclists to rank the types of bus driver behaviour that makes them feel unsafe on the roads. …Read full article.

The Love Your Bike campaign [1] is today releasing the results of a survey in which they asked Greater Manchester cyclists to rank the types of bus driver behaviour that makes them feel unsafe on the roads.

Spring is here and along with the warmer weather, longer daylight and the Easter Holidays coming up – the Love Your Bike campaigners are encouraging people in Manchester to resurrect their bikes and join one of the Bike Friday cycle … Continue reading →

…Pete Abel, from the Love Your Bike campaign, said: “We welcome the decision to increase cycle parking provision, although we need to make sure the money is spent on stuff that works and is in the right place.”   …Read full … Continue reading →

On Friday 26th February during its Bike Friday ride, the Love Your Bike campaign will be promoting a survey asking cyclists to recount their experiences of sharing road space with buses in Greater Manchester. [1]

Pro-biking campaign groups iron out the differences between themselves and Manchester’s transport authority over the thorny issue of travelling with bikes.  …Read full article.

Cyclists have welcomed a move by transport bosses to set up a review into whether bikes can be taken onto Metrolink trams. …Read full article.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners are celebrating after they achieved the “best possible outcome” in the fight against the Metrolink bike ban.  The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) decided on Friday, February 12th, to set-up a cross-working group that would look into … Continue reading →

A transport study is expected to resolve the issue of whether bicycles can be taken on trams in Manchester. Cycle groups claim that bikes are welcome on other tram systems in Europe and they want Metrolink to follow suit.  To … Continue reading →

Photo Opportunity:Friday 12th Feb, 9.30am. Love Your Bike campaigners will betaking a range of folding items on a tram journey from St Peter’s Square to protest at ban on bicycles.

A bike ban on Manchester’s tram system is to be re-considered after an agreement to set up a working party to consider the issue. Presently, all bicycles are banned on Manchester’s tram system, even Brompton-style folding bikes (unless they’re in … Continue reading →

Love Your Bike campaigners are taking ironing boards and a range of other folding items on trams in Manchester to highlight the contradictions in the Metrolink policy that bans anyone from travelling with a folding bicycle that hasn’t been put … Continue reading →

In the run up to Valentine’s Day on Sunday 14th February, Love Your Bike campaigners will be delivering scrumptious chocolates to council, health and business leaders in Greater Manchester to deliver the sweet message that cycling can help people get … Continue reading →

Friday 29th January sees the first Bike Friday cycle to work ride in 2010 and the cycle campaigners are encouraging people to try cycling to work 2 days a month to cut their travel to work C02 emissions by 10%.

On 29th January the AGMA Executive committee will be voting to reallocate the funding aimed at encouraging people in Greater Manchester to walk and cycle more. At a time when GM local authorities are faced with the multiple challenges of … Continue reading →

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners said they are “disappointed” by last week’s decision to continue to ban bicycles on Manchester’s trams and accused transport bosses of acting “against the spirit of democracy” in the way they handled key information.  …Read full article.

GREEN campaigners have accused transport bosses of underhand tactics to force through a bike ban on trams.  Cyclists have spent years lobbying for permission to take their bikes on the Metrolink. Transport chiefs had previously suggested that the rules would … Continue reading →

Trams and bicycles don’t always co-exist happily. Bike wheels are famously drawn towards recessed tramlines, while the electric vehicles’ swift, silent approach requires careful attention on behalf of riders. In Greater Manchester, however, the local councils seem set on taking … Continue reading →

Photographs attached:   Polar Bear greets Bike Friday cycle commuters. Exchange Square, 8.30am, Friday 27th November.

In the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we raised awareness of the benefits of cycling in stopping climate change.

With the clocks having just gone back and with the evenings drawing in all road users need to take extra care and look out for others. Bike Friday want people to continue enjoying the freedom of cycling in Greater Manchester … Continue reading →

Tuesday 22nd September is ‘In Town Without My Car Day’ and Manchester Friends of the Earth are organising special ‘Bike Tuesday’ cycle rides for people who would like to give their cars the day off and experience the benefits of … Continue reading →

This month, because it is European In Town Without My Car Day, we’re holding our rides on Tuesday (22nd September) as well as Friday (25th September).

FOLLOWING the closure of the Metrolink tram service this month, commuters can bike to work each Friday.  Throughout August cyclists can be guided to work once a week as part of Bike Friday, formerly known as Critical Commute, which starts … Continue reading →

Cycle-lovers are calling on transport bosses to honour their pledge to allow bikes on trams as it prepares to build the Metrolink extension to Oldham…..Read full article.

PROTESTERS armed with cardboard bikes have urged transport chiefs to make room for cycles on trams. Campaigners from Friend’s of the Earth are fighting a ban on taking bikes on to the Metrolink.  ….Read full article.

Cyclists in Manchester are calling for greater access on the city’s trams by boarding with cardboard bicycles. Bikes are not currently allowed on at any time unless they can be folded up. But “Love your Bike” campaign wants Metrolink to … Continue reading →

THEIR ‘Manchester love your bike’ message was simple enough… but it had to be made even simpler when not enough cyclists turned up. Campaigners needed 22 cylists to spell out their slogan on the second anniversary of the award-winning Love … Continue reading →

Photo Opportunity:On Friday 29th February at 08.30 at the Albert Square entrance of Manchester Town Hall, cyclists will gather with their message ‘Cycling Matters’.

Photo Opportunity erformers will be available for photographs between 1:30 and 2:30pm. On Saturday 16th June, between midday and 3pm in St Ann’s Square, volunteers from GMCC and Manchester FoE will perform a synchronised folding bike extravaganza. Dressed in suits … Continue reading →

CYCLISTS have called upon council bosses to upgrade Manchester’s bike lane system. A report by the Manchester Friends of the Earth group highlights a number of bicycle “blackspots” and urges new investment to encourage more people to travel to work … Continue reading →

..Then I received word from Creative Concern that their advertising campaign to get Mancunians out of their cars and onto bikes won first prize at Wednesday’s Green Awards in London.  ….See full article.

The ‘Love Your Bike’ campaign was created by Manchester ethical communications  agency, Creative Concern, for Friends of the Earth and Manchester City Council.  Love Your Bike raised public awareness of cycling to reduce carbon emissions, noise and pollution levels as … Continue reading →

Tune in – if you dare – to this video short featuring a man doing something to his bicycle. It’s a risqué plug to start Bike Week with a bang. A bike bang.  …Read the full article.

Manchester drivers urged to ditch four wheels To get Manchester’s car driving commuters to ditch four wheels in favour of two carbon neutral wheels, Northern Quarter-based communications agency, Creative Concern, has produced a sexy and fun advertising campaign running across … Continue reading →

…Oh, right, back to the ad – the “Love your bike” ad campaign just debuted in Manchester, England. Great ad.  See full article.

In a drive to get more Manchester commuters on their bikes, a campaign launched Tuesday promotes cycling as “better for your health, better for your wallet and better for getting you to work on time” across the city’s billboards and … Continue reading →

Manchester Friends of the Earth launched a high profile campaign called ‘Love Your Bike’ on Tuesday 21st March 2006 to promote cycling in Manchester.

An environmental charity has today begun a major new push to cut traffic pollution and improve the health of commuters in Manchester by encouraging people to cycle to work…..Read full article.