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Dispute a MET office amber weather warning over extreme heat, everyone appeared to enjoy the music performances in comfort. Some images of the ChiCycle Oakland’s Park Pop-Up Music Event are captured in the media gallery below. An audio clip of Sophie Hodgson’s performance is available below. An audio clip of Alex Roberts performance is available below. An audio clip of Nigel Rippon with Drone in the Woods (Keith Sutton) performance is available below. In addition to ChiCycle’s thanks to the…

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Wonderful performances were given by all four musicians who played The warmly receptive audience who joined ChiCycle’s event at Whyke Amphitheater clearly all enjoyed themselves. Apologies for the poor quality of the audio recordings, the sound heard by the audience and engineered by Chris (Crispy) Penycate was of excellent quality but I did not pay adequate attention to the audio input recording levels during the performances (Mark Record). Savannah Hack opened the event, the following link/media is a recording of…

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Contemporary woven sculptor Mark Ford has just completed an installation at Queen Elizabeth Country Park and ChiCycle provided a sound system to play Keith Sutton’s ambient synth music at the sculpture’s opening event. The event was also supported by a wonderful storyteller named Chris and a mysterious giant woodman named Russ. Below is an image gallery showing some images of the opening ceremony of the new Giant’s Head Sculpture at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Story of the Selfish Giant…

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Update The Oakland’s Park Event will move date to Sunday 17th July. This is to prevent a clash with the excellent Rotary Dragon Boat Race event. ChiCycle 2022 pop-up event dates and locations are now as follows: Whyke Amphitheatre Sunday June 12th Oakland’s Park Sunday July 17th Florence Park Sunday August 14th Brewery Field Sunday ( now cancelled) September 4th Updated documents relating to these changes of dates are available on the links immediately below 2022-ChiCycle-pop-up event proposal-V3 2022-ChiCycle-popup-minimusic-dates-and-locations-V3 2022-ChiCycle-Pop-Up-Eco-Fair-Event-Application-Form-V3…

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ChiCycle are supporting the Great Big Green Week Event at Whyke Oval on Sunday 26th Sept from 3:00PM to 5:30PM We will be moving the equipment and powering the event using only bicycle power! Richard Turnbull will also be bringing the Cycling Without Age trishaw to give rides. There will be various family orientated activities like printing designs to make your own reusable shopping bags and face painting activities. If you’d like to help us shift equipment using cargo-bikes and…

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Images from Sunday 29th August Motherload presentation Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image Link to larger format image A few images from the Saturday night cargo bike presentation are also available at the bottom of this post! Met office now says the weather will be ideal…

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Government guidelines restricted the number of people able to attend but nonetheless we still held an enjoyable picnic event and everyone enjoyed meeting up for an outdoor event. Torrential rain cleared up just in time for people to ride to the event in dry (ish) weather. Light drizzle at the beginning of the picnic soon cleared up as more people arrived. Picnickers enjoyed attempting to ride Adam Bells challenge bike where the steering, breaks and pedals all work the opposite…

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Jonathan Fulford helped crowed fund the Liz Canning produced film about the family and social advantages of using cargo bikes. As a ChiCycle member Jonathan hopes to get permission from Liz Canning so we can show all or parts of the documentary in public presentations on walking and cycling opportunities in Chichester. A few of us have been having lively discussions over showing the film: Should we show the uncut version where family viewers will hear the foul language hurled…

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This is the 2nd of our after work Friday bike rides on the Chichester Pop-Up Cycleway Cyclists have been temporarily allocated extra road-space in Chichester through the new Pop-Up cycle scheme. The Pop-Up cycle scheme has its imperfections but we need to show there is strong support in Chichester for road-space being set aside for safer cycling. Here is a photo of us on the Northern Gyratory on Friday the 4th September