Southampton Cycling Campaign

Inspired Living is a charity formed by local people with the aims:

1. to inspire ordinary men and women to adopt healthier lifestyles to reduce their risk of contracting cancer,
2. to produce medical research information which is of high value in the fight against cancer,
3. to raise £1 million for Cancer Research.

“We want to show that ordinary people can do extraordinary things”
Dr. Tim Frank (founder)

For more information see the web site: www.inspiredliving.org.uk

The Fun Ride – from Winchester to Portsmouth

The Cycle4Life ride on Saturday 4th September 2010 is open to all, and will cover 33 miles of beautiful local countryside from Winchester to Portsmouth. We invite everyone to participate.

The Continental Ride – from Winchester to Gibraltar

30 local people have signed up to continue the journey from Winchester to Gibraltar, a 1,250 mile cycle ride taking two weeks. They have been undertaking a six-month fitness and nutrition programme advised by experts from the Royal Navy and the medical profession.

How you can help

• Please consider joining the fun cycle ride from Winchester to Portsmouth on 4th September. You can enter via the Inspired Living web site: www.inspiredliving.org.uk/cycle4life
• Please support Cancer Research by sponsoring the team cycling 1,250 miles from Winchester to Gibraltar. Local cyclist Caroline Maynard (wife of SCC web master Rob Jordan) is among them, and would be grateful for any donations via:
  www.justgiving.com/CarolineMaynard

All donations go directly to Cancer Research UK.

Southampton Sky Ride

Title: Southampton Sky Ride
Link out: Click here
Description: On Sunday 25 July Southampton will be opening up its streets to cyclists to host the Sky Ride event.
The event offers people, of all ages and abilities, the chance to dust off their bikes and enjoy the sights and sounds of Southampton on a traffic free tour of the city and its great landmarks. A unique experience we hope you won’t forget exploring the city on two wheels.

Sky Ride is a FREE event hosted by Sky in partnership with British Cycling and Southampton City Council with support from the Primary Care Trust. Last year the five Sky Ride events saw more than 110,000 cycling fans flood the streets. Twelve Sky Ride events will take place in 10 major cities across the UK this summer with smaller local rides also taking place across the country. This year is going to be bigger and better with the aim of 10,000 cyclists participating in the Southampton event!

Sky Ride is for everyone, no matter how old you are and no matter how good or bad you are, you can join in! You can ride around the 7 mile route between 10am – 4pm as many times as you like, or you can take it slowly and make a day of it. For cyclists and non- cyclists alike, there will be lots to see and do. It will be a whole festival of fun with something for everyone and you can expect to see a few familiar faces taking part, including some of your favourite personalities as well as GB’s cycling greats. Sky Ride ambassador and chef Jean Christophe Novelli will be attending the Southampton event. There will be some fun cycling challenges and coaches on hand to provide tips and advice.

Sky Ride is by far the greatest excuse to have fun on your bike. As well as providing a unique opportunity to see the city in a new light, it’s a fantastic chance for everyone to ride together with no fear of cars, and enjoy a day of cycling.

For full details see the page here.
Date: 2010-07-25

Title: Ride to the Newport Inn, Braishfield
Location: Cowherds
Description: Meet 6.30 pm at the Cowherds, Southampton Common. Suitable for experienced cyclists; lights essential.

Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-06-24
End Time: 22:30

Title: Ride to Hamble
Location: Meet at Bargate or Woolston Station
Description: 6.15 pm at the Bargate; alternatively, 6.45
pm at Woolston Station. Gentle ride suitable for all abilities. Almost all off road on level tarmac paths. After refreshments in Hamble, return journey arriving back in Southampton by 10.30 pm. Lights advisable. Optional return by train.

Start Time: 18:15
Date: 2010-06-23
End Time: 22:30

Title: Urban Rides
Location: Various starting points around the city
Description: Come along to Big Bike Event and let us know where you would like to cycle in the city and we will plan the routes; meeting up for refreshments in the city centre. Discover traffic free/quiet routes around the city

Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-06-21
End Time: 19:30

Title: World Naked Bike Ride – Southampton – June 11th
Location: East side of Southampton Common, next to Highfield Road
Link out: Click here
Description: This year’s Southampton Naked Bike Ride takes place on June 11th. As ever, the meeting place will be the east side of Southampton Common, next to Highfield Road. Meeting time 6pm, departure 6.30pm, ride length 6 miles which – at our leisurely pace – will take about 1 hour. Bring picnic snacks and drinks to relax on the Common while it’s still warm, then join us for more celebrations at The Hobbit into the evening.

For those who are new to the ride…

WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?

This is a peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic. The world’s biggest naked protest: 50+ cities and thousands of riders participate worldwide, including more than 3000 in the UK in 2009, of which 150 rode in Southampton!

Dress code is ‘bare as you dare’. That means nudity is not compulsory, but many go completely naked. Go as bare as you feel comfortable doing.

Will I get arrested? Very unlikely. Simple nudity is not a crime and no-one has been arrested at any UK ride over six previous years. In Southampton the police have been completely accepting of full nudity, and in London and Brighton, bike-mounted police have even helped with traffic control (clothed!). Indecent or lewd behaviour will not be tolerated so keep it clean.

Full details of the Southampton ride here: http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/southampton/

VOLUNTEERS WANTED, CLOTHED & NAKED, RIDING & NON-RIDING

We’d love to make the ride even better than previous years, but need volunteers to help. For example, with a couple of non-riding volunteers we could provi de a ‘cloakroom’ facility so riders could leave belongings at the Common, instead of lugging them around on the bike. We hope to have a changing tent where more sensitive souls can have a little privacy while stripping off. We’d also like a clothed rider to follow the back of the ride, just to make sure no-one is left behind. Please, please ‘volunteer’ your friends or yourself to help out with these tasks. Emails please to southampton <at> worldnakedbikeride.org.

THE ART HOUSE PAINTS BODIES AGAIN

Our friends at The Art House, Southampton’s favourite creative hot house and organic cafe, have offered once again to apply their artistic talents to pre-ride body painting from 4pm on the day of the ride. Some of our most spectacular riders got painted up here in 2009, so join us again this year for your full body makeover. http://www.thearthousesouthampton.co.uk/

JOIN OUR FACEBOOK EVENT

If you haven’t already, click through to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=331502301042 and join this event. Then be sure to invite all of your friends!

PROMOTE THE RIDE WITH POSTERS AND FLYERS

We have posters and flyers for you to print and distribute here: http://tinyurl.com/35wywr4

SEE YOU ON JUNE 11TH!
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2010-06-11
End Time: 20:00

Title: Family Frostbike Cycle Ride
Location: Gosport
Link out: Click here
Description: Portsmouth Cycle Forum members will be taking to the cycle routes of the Gosport Peninsular on Tuesday 29 December for a Family Frostbike Cycle Ride. Here’s the itinerary:

* Assemble at the Ferry Gardens in Gosport (next to the ferry pontoon) at 10am
* Travel using on-road and off-road cycle routes via Gosport Station, to near Rowner, Stubbington and through back roads to Hill Head.
* Refreshment stop (either Visitor Centre or Osborne View PH).
* Return along coast road to Lee-on-the-Solent (Solent Cycles on seafront for emergency repairs!).
* Carry on towards Stokes Bay but with optional loop to Gosport BMX track.
* Stokes Bay seafront then cycle path on old railway line back to South Street and ferry.

We aim to finish between 1pm and 2pm. Ferries leave Portsmouth and Gosport every 15 minutes (www.gosportferry.co.uk)
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-12-29
End Time: 14:00

Update 12 April 2010:

Please remember to bring a printed copy of the automated e-mail you receive as it contains your participant number. You will need it on the day to present at the checkpoint.

Title: 2010 Isle of Wight Randonnee
Location: Isle of Wight
Link out: Click here
Description: The Wayfarer Cycletouring Club is pleased to announce that the 2010 Randonnee will take place on Sunday 2rd May. The IoW Randonnee was established by the Wayfarers in 1985.
Free Entry. Any donations welcome.
All checkpoints are open from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. You may find that checkpoints are open a little earlier or later, but remember that people at the checkpoints are volunteers and can’t be expected to be there at dawn!
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2010-05-02
End Time: 18:00

SIMPLY FABULOUS
Location: BELLEMOOR RD ENTRANCE TO SOUTHAMPTON COMMON
Description: SIMPLY FABULOUS this SATURDAY Oct 24 sees the launch of a new group aimed at ladies who would cycle more if only . . . . . . . . .

* the roads were safer and
* motorists didn’t terrorise them
* they didn’t feel self conscious and
* it didn’t rain so often
* they didn’t get sweaty or
* have to dress in lycra
* they didn’t have to wear a helmet and
* they were a bit fitter
* they had more time and
* more people did it and
* it was NORMAL . . . .

MEET US 1015 AT BELLEMOOR RD ENTRANCE TO SOUTHAMPTON COMMON AND LET US DISPEL THESE MYTHS and show you how to be simply fabulous. JOIN US FOR A GENTLE RIDE WITH A COFFEE STOP PERHAPS AND WE’LL BE BACK BY NOON.
NO CHARGE (EXCEPT MAYBE A CAKE WITH MY COFFEE?)

Dilys Gartside
CycleWise ‘change your travel habits’
t. 023 8077 7472
e. CycleWise@aol.com
Start Time: 10:15
Date: 2010-10-24
End Time: 12:00

Bike Week is the biggest nationwide cycling event in the UK. A national celebration of cycling, Bike Week helps you get more out of life – by getting on your bike and exploring your local community.

As usual, Southampton will host many cycling events during and around Bike Week. Highlights include:

Saturday 13 June 10am at The Bargate, FAMILY BIKE CAVALCADE

Mainly on cycle routes and some on road. A loop to Mayflower Park then up the parks to the Peace Fountain. Suitable for all abilities. If parent/guardian is happy that children are competent on their own two wheels, they are more than welcome, as long as under 18 year olds are accompanied by an adult who is responsible for the child. Decorate your bikes and yourselves if you wish! Do join us with your picnic lunch afterwards. Just turn up www.southamptoncyclingcampaign.org.uk/

Sunday 14 June 10am at Weston Shore, on National Cycle Route 2, the BIG BIKE CELEBRATION.

The main attractions include the try-a-bike arena with The Company of Cyclists (this is great – it’s how we tried trailer and tandem then bought), mountain bike displays by M.A.D. (Europe s largest stunt/trials display team), a bicycle smoothie-maker, The Bike Dr who can check your bike for free, led rides, cycle training and fun! Just turn up. (Natalie Gledhill, streettread@sustrans.org.uk)

Saturday 20 June 10am, Southampton Common Bellemoor Road entrance: Five Miles to FABuloUS

Shift the ‘L’ from FLAB – lady cyclists WEAR SMALLER smalls! Easy flatish five mile led ride for ladies on cycle paths or quieter roads around Southampton City

Full details of these events are available in the Events section of this web site, and more Bike Week events can be found at www.bikeweek.org.uk and www3.hants.gov.uk/whatson-cyclehampshire.