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“Cycleoke” Entertaining Environmentalism. Chichester Student Union on Thursday 7th November

“Cycleoke” Entertaining Environmentalism. Chichester Student Union on Thursday 7th November

Update ChiCycle’s bike powered Cycleoke” event successfully got many people, singing and enjoying healthy exercise on a bike. Students found out about how they can get involved in organise future “Cycleoke” style events to promote active travel and green/sustainable living. Original Post On Thursday 7th November 2024, starting at 6:30pm, ChiCycle will be at Chichester University Student Union to encourage and inform students about how they can organise future “Cycleoke” events. “Cycleoke” is similar to Karaoke except entirely powered by…

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Mark Simmons becomes a ChiCycle Organiser and Plans Fashionable Tweed Bike Ride for 8th October

Mark Simmons becomes a ChiCycle Organiser and Plans Fashionable Tweed Bike Ride for 8th October

Mark Simmons has recently moved to Chichester from Canada. He describes himself as a Graphic Designer turned Bicycle Mechanic writing about Lifestyle Cycling and drawing a funny robot cartoon strip called Farrbott. Mark has his own bike orientated website https://www.bottsbikesbits.com and has already teamed up with ChiCycle to organise a bike ride (wearing fashionable tweed) around the city. He has already shared the following plans for the bike ride planned for the 8th October 2023. Details Mark has given are…

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Friday Evening September 8th Cargo Bike/Trike Try-outs 5:30pm Until 7:00pm

Friday Evening September 8th Cargo Bike/Trike Try-outs 5:30pm Until 7:00pm

Come Tryout a Cargo Bike/Trike on Friday Evening September 8th September Starting 5:30pm Until 7:00pm. Bring photo ID if you want to take a cargo bike for a ride (so we can meet requirements for insurance). ChiCycle will stage this event at the Cattle Market Car Park near the pedestrian/cycle exit onto Whyke Lane and close to the Roman Amphitheatre. We aim to offer similar opportunities on the second Fridays of each month to encourage more people to leave their…

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23rd September Great ChiCycle Cargo-Bike Ride-Out to Deliver the Sound-Stage for the Havant Climate Alliance Eco Fair

23rd September Great ChiCycle Cargo-Bike Ride-Out to Deliver the Sound-Stage for the Havant Climate Alliance Eco Fair

Update Unfortunately, several key members of the ChiCycle team we unavailable on the day of the event and sadly the equipment could not be delivered using cargo bikes. Nonetheless, Martin Emmett & Chris Penycate set up the sound stage equipment at Havant Park allowing the event to be enhanced by live music acts. Original Post We need every ChiCycle supporter we can find to help pilot cargo-bikes carrying the ChiCycle Sound-Stage from Chichester to Havant (and then back again afterwards)…

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ChiCycle Supporting the Woolstock September 2nd 2023 Delivering Acoustic Sound Stage

ChiCycle Supporting the Woolstock September 2nd 2023 Delivering Acoustic Sound Stage

Update Woolstock Festival 2023 raised approximately £5,500 for Stone Pillow. Some images from the event are available in the gallery below. Original Post We hope you can join us for this years Woolstock Music Festival held September 2nd at the Woolpack Inn 71 Fishbourne Road West, Chichester, England, PO19 3JJ. Last year’s festival had two sound stages. ChiCycle delivered the acoustic stage. The event raised £6407.50 for the friends of Fishbourne School. This year’s charity is Stonepillow. We hope with…

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Kingsham FUNDAY Whyke Oval 26th Aug

Kingsham FUNDAY Whyke Oval 26th Aug

Update At first we worried weather would spoil the event. It was raining as everyone set up for it to start. Fortunately, as people arrived, the clouds parted, the sun came out, and everyone enjoyed themselves.   ChiCycle’s Music In The Park Sound Stage is supporting the Kingsham Area Action Group FUNDAY event at Whyke Oval on Saturday the 26th August. We are promoting walking and cycling by bringing all our Sound Stage equipment to the event using modes of…

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Come Tryout a Cargo Bike/Trike on Thursday 15th June Starting 5:30pm Until 7:00pm

Come Tryout a Cargo Bike/Trike on Thursday 15th June Starting 5:30pm Until 7:00pm

Come Tryout a Cargo Bike/Trike on Thursday 15th June Starting 5:30pm Until 7:00pm. ChiCycle will be staging the event in the Cattle Market Car Park near the pedestrian/cycle exit onto Whyke Lane and the Roman Amphitheatre. ChiCycle are organising this community event to give people the opportunity to try riding cargo bikes and trikes as part of the Great Big Green Week. Cate Matters has kindly created a poster advertising the event available in PDF format here. A .png format…

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Update on the Mayday protests on 25th to support the future of walking and cycling in the Harbour Villages

Update on the Mayday protests on 25th to support the future of walking and cycling in the Harbour Villages

Jan Davis joined the ChiCycle group and documented the protest with his photographs. Mayday Action Group Protest 26th March Hi These are some of the pictures I took yesterday in Chichester and Fishbourne. Use them exactly as you like and sending the link allows others to download. Great demonstration. Well done. Cheers Jan Davis The following link for downloading the photos is available until April the 2nd https://wetransfer.com/downloads/8dfcd6fa4d19f0e031341b6089da41f320230326122143/970a2126735429473cca8fe8752670a220230326122209/b764b9 A gallery of the images is available below,   Original Post Inviting…

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ChiCycle Pop Up Music at Havant Eco Fair – 24th September 2022

ChiCycle Pop Up Music at Havant Eco Fair – 24th September 2022

Update The Havant Eco Fair ran very successfully in sunny Autumn weather. Thanks to  Crispy, Philip, John-Paul, Keith, Sarah, Bill, Martin for joining the “Big ChiCycle Ride Out To The Havant Eco-Fair” ChiCycle are joining the Havant Climate Alliance for their Big Green Week event on the 24th September. We will be setting up our music in the park stage at the Eco Fair in Havant Park that is running from 10:00am until 4:00pm. Music performances will begin at 10:30am and…

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Successful Florence Park Pop-Up Music Performances on Sunday 14th August

Successful Florence Park Pop-Up Music Performances on Sunday 14th August

Update Everyone enjoyed a hot and sunny afternoon at the Florence Park Pop Up Music event. Fortunately, the Apuldram cafe had plenty of ice cream and drinks to keep the audience happy. Original Post Walk, cycle or hop on the bus to the Florence Park Pop-Up Music Event on Sunday 14th August 2:00pm to 4:00pm This will be ChiCycle’s third 2022 summer Pop-Up Music in the Park event. Bring a blanket and a picnic for a family friendly free summer…

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