Hundreds of Chester children take part in Love Your Bike week

Feb 17 2010 Chester Chronicle

TO CELEBRATE Valentine’s Day, 387 children across Chester showed just how much they love cycling by participating in a ‘Love Your Bike’ week.

Sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, helped to organise the fun filled cycle week with four schools from the area, to improve the children’s cycle skills and teach them how to look after their bikes.

Children from Newton Primary School, Guilden Sutton Primary School, The Arches Community Primary School and Dee Point Primary School took part in various activities, including bike washes, playground cycling skills games, and Dr. Bike sessions, to learn how to look after and fix their bikes.

Lydia Wilde, Sustrans Bike It officer, said: “We were over whelmed with the enthusiasm from the children at these schools; we had well over 100 bikes in the playground on some days.

“The most popular activity had to be the bike wash - the children used sponges, toothbrushes and lots of soapy water to get rid of all the dirt and get their bikes gleaming again.”

Sustrans works with 10 schools in the Chester area, in partnership with Chester West and Chester Council.

Further information about Sustrans and Bike It, including other news releases, is available through the website: www.sustrans.org.uk

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LOVE YOUR BIKE: Children from Newton Primary School, Guilden Sutton Primary School, The Arches Community Primary School and Dee Point Primary School took part in various activities during Love Your Bike week.

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