SPOKES
The East Kent Cycling Organisation
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SPOKES objectives
If you support our objectives, why not join us? SPOKES East Kent is affiliated to the Cycling UK (formerly CTC) and the Cycle Campaign Network. |
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News
Cycle route videos
Kent Connected have produced videos showcasing the Crab and Winkle Way and the Great Stour Way cycle paths.
Kent Connected have produced videos showcasing the Crab and Winkle Way and the Great Stour Way cycle paths.
Kent Connected is a Kent County Council initiative funded by the Department for Transport’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund to address peak traffic congestion, improve travel choices and promote more active and sustainable transport modes in Kent.
Canterbury local plan challenge
A crowdfunding page has been launched to raise the funds necessary to challenge Canterbury's Adopted Local Plan on air pollution grounds.
Spokes members are urged to support the legal challenge by contributing what they can to the fund and by sharing the crowdjustice link by email and social media - https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/canterburyairpollution/
A crowdfunding page has been launched to raise the funds necessary to challenge Canterbury's Adopted Local Plan on air pollution grounds.
Spokes members are urged to support the legal challenge by contributing what they can to the fund and by sharing the crowdjustice link by email and social media - https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/canterburyairpollution/
Spokes ride Sunday 1 October
Meet at Canterbury East station 10:30. A circular ride of about 26 miles via Petham and Stelling Minnis with a lunch stop at the Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary café near Rhodes Minnis. Up one valley and down another using quiet roads and regional routes 16 & 17. Return through Pett Bottom, Bridge and Patrixbourne. There will be a marshall and a backstop.
Leader: Peter Clements. 01227 277457 or 07864 037162.
Meet at Canterbury East station 10:30. A circular ride of about 26 miles via Petham and Stelling Minnis with a lunch stop at the Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary café near Rhodes Minnis. Up one valley and down another using quiet roads and regional routes 16 & 17. Return through Pett Bottom, Bridge and Patrixbourne. There will be a marshall and a backstop.
Leader: Peter Clements. 01227 277457 or 07864 037162.
Adult cycle training
Kent County Council offers cycle training to adults. Details of the courses they are running in October and November are now available.
Kent County Council offers cycle training to adults. Details of the courses they are running in October and November are now available.
World car-free day, 23 September 2017
Following the highly successful Canterbury is choking bike ride around the city's ring road earlier this year, a ride over the same circuit has been organised for World car-free day.
The ride will send a strong and clear message to Canterbury City Council and Kent County Council, neither of which has done anything to respond to requests to organise a car-free day or take any other measures to tackle congestion or air pollution.
The ride starts at 4pm at the Victoria Hotel, London Road (at the top of Rheims Way) and will go twice round the ring road via Sainsbury's and the Westgate Towers at a (very) gentle pace before finishing at the Council offices near Westgate Towers. The event should last about one and a half hours.
The ride is being organised by the Canterbury Branch of the local Labour Party. Please contact Pete Smith of the Labour Party for more information.
Following the highly successful Canterbury is choking bike ride around the city's ring road earlier this year, a ride over the same circuit has been organised for World car-free day.
The ride will send a strong and clear message to Canterbury City Council and Kent County Council, neither of which has done anything to respond to requests to organise a car-free day or take any other measures to tackle congestion or air pollution.
The ride starts at 4pm at the Victoria Hotel, London Road (at the top of Rheims Way) and will go twice round the ring road via Sainsbury's and the Westgate Towers at a (very) gentle pace before finishing at the Council offices near Westgate Towers. The event should last about one and a half hours.
The ride is being organised by the Canterbury Branch of the local Labour Party. Please contact Pete Smith of the Labour Party for more information.
Monthly update - August 2017
Our August monthly update has been added to the site. This month's issue includes an item is about cycling in Kent at the end of the 19th century and a request for a tandem captain to help a cyclist who is registered blind.
Our August monthly update has been added to the site. This month's issue includes an item is about cycling in Kent at the end of the 19th century and a request for a tandem captain to help a cyclist who is registered blind.
Could you be a cycling instructor?
Kent County Council is looking to recruit more cycling instructors on a part-time, casual basis.
Kent's cycle instructors work with learners of all ages from children at year 5 to adults and deliver the following courses:
The courses you will be required to deliver cover:
Kent County Council is looking to recruit more cycling instructors on a part-time, casual basis.
Kent's cycle instructors work with learners of all ages from children at year 5 to adults and deliver the following courses:
The courses you will be required to deliver cover:
- level 1 bike handling skills (off road)
- levels 2 and 3 riding on the road and in traffic
- a variety of adult cycle training activities.
Monthly update - July 2017
Our July monthly update has the latest news about cycling in and around Ashford, a progress report on the University of Kent's Masterplan, details about our next ride (6 August around Romney Marsh) and how we're hoping to work with Rosie Duffield, the new MP for Canterbury, to boost cycling in Kent and her constituency.
Our July monthly update has the latest news about cycling in and around Ashford, a progress report on the University of Kent's Masterplan, details about our next ride (6 August around Romney Marsh) and how we're hoping to work with Rosie Duffield, the new MP for Canterbury, to boost cycling in Kent and her constituency.
Congratulations to Chris Froome
It's a fantastic achievement to win the Tour at any time, so doing this four times is something amazing. So well done and congratulations to Chris Froome for his latest win.
One more win and Chris will counted among the greats: Miguel Indurain of Spain, Belgium's Eddy Merckx and Frenchmen Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil.
Fingers crossed for 2018!
It's a fantastic achievement to win the Tour at any time, so doing this four times is something amazing. So well done and congratulations to Chris Froome for his latest win.
One more win and Chris will counted among the greats: Miguel Indurain of Spain, Belgium's Eddy Merckx and Frenchmen Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil.
Fingers crossed for 2018!
Canterbury District Local Plan
Canterbury City Council's Local Plan was formally adopted by the council on 13 July. At over 400 pages, it's not an easy read or something for the beach this summer but it does provide the framework and details of how the area will be developed and changed over the next decade or so. There is a section on transport which had good things to say about cycling and walking but, as always, the devil is in the detail and how things are implemented.
If you'd like to look at the plan, you can find it at https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/planning/local-plan/adopted-local-plan/adopted-local-plan-july-2017/.
Canterbury City Council's Local Plan was formally adopted by the council on 13 July. At over 400 pages, it's not an easy read or something for the beach this summer but it does provide the framework and details of how the area will be developed and changed over the next decade or so. There is a section on transport which had good things to say about cycling and walking but, as always, the devil is in the detail and how things are implemented.
If you'd like to look at the plan, you can find it at https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/planning/local-plan/adopted-local-plan/adopted-local-plan-july-2017/.
Monthly update - June 2017
Our June update on cycling news and events has information about Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership’s free ‘Naturally Active For Life’ rides (primarily for the over-55s but all welcome), other rides in the county, updates on the national cycle routes and details of Kent County Council partnership with Community Cycle CIC to provide affordable refurbished bikes.
Our June update on cycling news and events has information about Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership’s free ‘Naturally Active For Life’ rides (primarily for the over-55s but all welcome), other rides in the county, updates on the national cycle routes and details of Kent County Council partnership with Community Cycle CIC to provide affordable refurbished bikes.
Car parking at Canterbury West station
There is a new consultation for the multi-storey car park at Canterbury West station. Spokes members are urged to comment on this as a matter of urgency as it will add to congestion, pollution and is not going to improve cycling in the area.
https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/your-council/have-your-say/consultations/station-road-west-multi-storey-car-park/
The deadline is Wednesday, 5 July.
Spokes has submitted our views on this development - if you would like a copy of these, please contact us.
There is a new consultation for the multi-storey car park at Canterbury West station. Spokes members are urged to comment on this as a matter of urgency as it will add to congestion, pollution and is not going to improve cycling in the area.
https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/your-council/have-your-say/consultations/station-road-west-multi-storey-car-park/
The deadline is Wednesday, 5 July.
Spokes has submitted our views on this development - if you would like a copy of these, please contact us.
Mudguard
The latest edition of Mudguard is now online (click expands pages to full-screen). Earlier editions of Mudguard are available here...
The latest edition of Mudguard is now online (click expands pages to full-screen). Earlier editions of Mudguard are available here...
New membership fees
At the monthly Spokes meeting in April the committee decided it was time to raise our membership fees. The last time we did this was in 2010!
We have been forced to do this because increased costs are making the running of the organisation less viable. If however you would like beat this increase, we are happy to accept any amount of future instalments of your membership before the end of June at the current rates. The new membership fees are:-
Single £10
Family £15
Unwaged /Retired - £7
if you currently pay by bank standing order or PayPal, can you please amend your membership payment to take effect from its next annual payment. I’ll also be writing to you separately to remind you.
If you pay your membership through PayPal, we lose about 6% as a service charge. Could you please consider also making a donation or perhaps switching to bank standing order so that we receive all your membership fee? Thank you. Terry Croft, Treasurer
At the monthly Spokes meeting in April the committee decided it was time to raise our membership fees. The last time we did this was in 2010!
We have been forced to do this because increased costs are making the running of the organisation less viable. If however you would like beat this increase, we are happy to accept any amount of future instalments of your membership before the end of June at the current rates. The new membership fees are:-
Single £10
Family £15
Unwaged /Retired - £7
if you currently pay by bank standing order or PayPal, can you please amend your membership payment to take effect from its next annual payment. I’ll also be writing to you separately to remind you.
If you pay your membership through PayPal, we lose about 6% as a service charge. Could you please consider also making a donation or perhaps switching to bank standing order so that we receive all your membership fee? Thank you. Terry Croft, Treasurer
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