Inclusive bike access and cycling education

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The Bike Hub, Ireland

Promoting a cycling culture

The Bike Hub, in collaboration with various partners, operates community bike shops in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin City as a social enterprise. Their primary goal is to promote a cycling culture and ensure the activity is accessible to a wide range of individuals within the local communities.

Engaging the community through diverse activities

Through engaging with the community, The Bike Hub encourages social and business endeavors related to biking. They offer a diverse range of activities, including:

• Workshops for schools: It introduces students to new dimensions of cycling, such as learning how to fix their bikes, understanding the rules of the road (safe cycling), as well as the physics and maths of cycling (STEM).
• Accessible bikes: it offers free rentals on a fleet of accessible bikes for people who are unable to use regular bikes.
• Bike workshops: It provides Bike repair and bike maintenance training courses.
• ‘Upcyclers’ programme: it focuses on restoring previously loved bikes to donate them to people with low incomes, refugees, and other vulnerable groups.

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