Ride Manchester

A new bicycle recycling project has started in Levenshulme. Ride Manchester wants to improve the lives of Mancunians using the bicycle as the tool. They collect unwanted or unused or discarded bicycles, recycle them in their workshop and then either sell (very cheaply) or give them to people as part of our "earn-a-bike" scheme whereby you can earn a bike by volunteering in the workshop.

They hope to provide free bikes to marginalised groups in the future, if we get enough funding. For now, they provide cheap bikes to the people of Manchester, and give them the skills to maintain them. Due to their non-commercial nature, they can offer the sharing of our skills, the use of our resources, and genuine impartial advice and information.

But they also need bikes. So if you have an old bike or old bike parts collecting dust in your cellar of shed they'll take them off you and give them to people who want them. Nothing refused!

Adam & Huw, Ride Manchester (0161 249 0332, mail@ridemanchester.org.uk)

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