Beryl's Night
Beryl’s Night is a monthly bike maintenance session for women, and all non-binary and trans folk to come and use the workshop. The aim of Beryl's Night is to create a space to learn, fix, teach, hang out, laugh, help each other, high five, ask for help and make friends.
Introducing Team Beryl
Team Beryl is a group of volunteers who are passionate about the intersection of bikes and gender. We organise Beryl’s Night and other cycling events throughout the year.
Our mission is to make bike workshops, events, and activities inclusive and accessible to all by attempting to break down the barriers which prevent women, non-binary and trans people from engaging in cycling and mechanics
Beryl's Night
Beryl’s Night is a monthly session for women, and all non-binary and trans folk to come and use the workshop.
Taking place the first Thursday evening of every month, we cover specific themes related to cycling and bike maintenance.
Expect to learn, get greasy mitts, eat cake, and make friends in the cycling world.
What's coming up......
Thursday 6th of Feb 2025, 6.30 - 8.30 pm - The M-Check
Our Feb Beryl's Night is all about the M-check - an intuitive and memorable way to check that a bike is in good working order and to identify any issues that need attention, fixing and care.
What to bring: your brilliant selves! (and if you have a bike and want to bring it with you - please do! If you don't have one yet, no worries. This is the perfect session to build the knowledge and experience to confidently check bikes when searching for one )
Team Beryl-led
Mechanic Supported Workshops
Owing to Broken Spoke’s mechanics traineeship for women, trans and non binary folk, Team Beryl and the wider Broken Spoke community has had a boost in the number of qualified and skilled cycle mechanics who don’t identify as cis-men. For an industry with a gender diversity problem, this is a big win!
Team Beryl regularly leads Broken Spoke Mechanic Supported Workshop sessions. These are open to all - like our standard Mechanic Supported Workshop - but the session lead mechanic on the day and the volunteers supporting will all be members of Team Beryl.
The next Team Beryl Led DIY session will be Sat 14th Dec.
Team Beryl Sessions
The story behind the name
Beryl Burton was an English racing cyclist and one of Britain's greatest athletes. She dominated women's cycle racing in the UK throughout the 1960’s/70’s and 80’s, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records.
One of Burton's most famous idiosyncrasies was offering witticisms to riders she caught. Dave Taylor, press secretary at Cycling Time Trials, remembers: "The only experience I had with Beryl was being caught by her in a ‘25' in Essex. As she passed me she said ‘Eh lad, you're not trying' where upon she disappeared up the road." She inspires us and we'd like more people to know about her, and others.
