Preston Pedals
Meet Preston Pedals, the climate action community running sessions for members of a local Talk English group to help them repair and maintain recycled bicycles.
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00:00 Preston Pedals have teamed up with local community group Talk English to help teach people about repairing and maintaining recycled bicycles.
00:08 The sessions will be led by qualified mechanics and teach the stripping back and fixing of old bicycles and how to repair them when something goes wrong.
00:16 The repairing workshop will take place over three weeks and especially gives refugees and asylum seekers a chance to receive a free bike that can be crucial in helping them build their new lives in the UK.
00:27 Learning to maintain bikes will take place over two weeks, giving those taking part a grounding in how to deal with a range of problems from punctures to loose chains.
00:36 I think it's the inclusion and the bringing the community together in Preston.
00:41 We've got a lot of quite nice initiatives in place where we're looking at essentially getting people out on the bikes, there's health aspects and also eco travel and green travel.
00:54 Quite a sustainable backbone really to the whole project. I've been a keen cyclist all my life and I've always been repairing my bikes and I've come on board as a mechanic for Preston Pedals.
01:08 Preston Pedals are much the same really, so we take your recycled donated bikes that go to landfill, we strip them, rebuild them, show people how to do that in sessions.
01:21 So people can attend the session and if they don't have a bike, they'll learn how to fix the bike, put new parts on and then they will take it with them for the session.
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