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Nov 1, 20242 min read
Don’t let Winter Stop you Cycling!
We all know that cycling in the Winter can be a challenge, and sometimes not very appealing! Drizzly days, dark evenings, icy roads; all...
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May 8, 20231 min read
Modupe learns to ride with Broken Spoke
Modupe signed up to do some training with Broken Spoke via the Oxford University funded 6 hours of cycle training program at the...
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Nov 16, 20223 min read
Mechanics Traineeship for women and all trans and non-binary folk starting 2023
We’re looking for six people to fill our mechanics traineeship for 2023. This traineeship is for women, and all trans and non-binary...
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Oct 20, 20207 min read
Why do Community Bike Projects Matter? – Karen McCallum
The time we’re living through now encourages reflection. What is really important to us? What relationships, activities, and things do we...
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Sep 22, 20206 min read
Why do Community Bike Projects Matter? – Kat Young
The time we’re living through now encourages reflection. What is really important to us? What relationships, activities, and things do we...
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Aug 25, 20205 min read
Why do Community Bike Projects Matter? – Mike Hicks
The time we’re living through now encourages reflection. What is really important to us? What relationships, activities, and things do we...
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Aug 19, 20201 min read
Bikes & Books: An *online* book talk with Emily Chappell and Jools Walker
Pretty excited to share this with you all! We had to cancel the original event back in March, but we’re bringing you these wonderful...
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Jul 27, 20207 min read
Why do Community Bike Projects Matter? – Antiracist struggle and community bike projects
The suffocation of George Floyd and the suffering it caused to Black communities has raised a burning question for white people about how...
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Jun 2, 20206 min read
Why do Community Bike Projects matter? – Emily Chappell
The time we’re living through now encourages reflection. What is really important to us? What relationships, activities, and things do we...
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Feb 28, 20201 min read
Bikes & Books: A book talk with Jools Walker and Emily Chappell
We’re super excited to announce this book talk with two of our cycling superheroes; Jools Walker and Emily Chappell. Both Jools and Emily...
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Jan 29, 20201 min read
Weekend cycle training now available
We’ve recently welcomed Paul Taylor, an experienced cycling instructor, to our team. Welcome! Oxford born and bred, Paul is bringing an...
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Nov 20, 20192 min read
For Sale: one of a kind, vintage Daccordi!
Our eyes popped when this vintage, one of a kind Daccordi was donated to the Spoke. And we are truly grateful to the generous supporter...
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Jul 3, 20181 min read
We’ve moved!
We’ve now re-opened in our new premises in St Thomas School on Osney Lane, come on down and check it out! We’re still in the process of...
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Jun 21, 20181 min read
You did it!! Crowdfunder finishes at £15,922!
It all ended last night at 8pm. And now for the next big job… Wow! £15,922 as our closing total…we did it people!!!! The support, the...
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Mar 6, 20182 min read
Bamboozled: how Kiro made a bamboo bicycle!
by Kiro Hadjiev – Why bamboo? Bamboo is an amazing bike frame material: stronger than steel, more durable than carbon fibre, and more...
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Nov 21, 20171 min read
‘How to Build a Bike’ by Jenni Gwiazdowski
Book launch and Q & A It took her 9 months and alorra sweat, blood, and tears to produce. But she’s done it. Jenni Gwiazdowski, founder...
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Nov 20, 20173 min read
An evening of love and solidarity
On the evening of 9th November, six months after our friend Claudia Comberti was killed while cycling on Botley Road, we gathered at the...
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Nov 3, 20171 min read
Launch of The Claudia Charter
This Thursday, Nov 9th, come to the launch of The Claudia Charter for Safer Cycling in Oxford at Tap Social. Six months ago, our friend...
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Jun 9, 20175 min read
Can cycle training change the world?
One month on from the loss of a friend on the road, could cycle training answer the call to transform our car dominated city roads into...
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Sep 21, 20162 min read
Dave’s story
I went to Crisis Skylight in Oxford and I did a bike maintenance course. That’s how I met Elle who runs Broken Spoke. I have mended bikes...
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