Up-Cycles

A lovely story in The News, Central Otago and Wānaka, written by our good friend and Bike Ambassador Doug White, about his father’s race bike which has been donated to us for rehoming. Link below.




https://digital.thenews.co.nz/html5/default.aspx

Good afternoon everyone.

At the Up-Cycles Charitable Trust we not only up-cycle bikes for those in need, but we also offer bike skills training and cycle education across all demographics.

If you are 8 or 80 you can learn new skills or improve your bike handling which in turn will make your cycling more enjoyable.

Whether you are learning to ride for the first time, coming back to riding after years away, wanting to tackle a particular trail, topping up your knowledge, interested in becoming one of our COBA - Community Of Bike Ambassadors or Cycling Without Age - Central Otago pilots, or in need of specific training, then please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Cycling is a lifelong activity but anyone at any stage or age can up-skill.

Winter is a great time to do some learning and development.

Get in touch…….

Another incredibly successful Bike Fixation event at The BikeHive today, and another awesome buzz around the place.

Welcome to some new veloteers - Josh, Todd and Spike, and the usual fantastic efforts from our regulars Chelsea (somehow missed off the pics), Dave and Malakai. THANK YOU everyone, you are gold nuggets.

Josh works for our good friends at Bike It Now in Cromwell, and they have kindly donated another 3 bikes which he brought along.

Spike is another young fella doing Duke of Edinburgh, so volunteering with us will help with that.

Chris donated 3 bikes and we had an awesome chat about several bike things we had in common.

Kelsey came to get a kids bike fixed…..sorted.

Tara, Logan and their lovely family donated a heap of bikes and we were able to help them with the next sizes up.

Vikram scored a new bike, as the previous bike we had donated had a damaged seat tube.

A bunch of bikes refurbed and up-cycled.

We gave out a few AA New Zealand sponsored bike light sets, and NZTA Road Codes for Cycling.

Wayne came along for an epic chat about retro and vintage bikes…..conversation to be continued.

And amongst all of the buzz, Ojas and Kiyana needed help learning to ride their bikes we had previously donated…..the magic icing on the cake today…..they are both up and rolling.🚴🏼‍♂️🚴🏼‍♀️👏🥳