The Pedallers' Arms

Good news, if any Members of Pedallers’ Arms were thinking of joining CTC, they can now do so for a reduced price (£16), by visiting this link and entering our group membership number, just ask us for it.  You don’t get the magazine but you do help CTC which is a great charity supporting cycling.

A Pedallers’ member brought in an interesting bike to the workshop a few days ago.  While she was travelling around Ghana she found a bamboo bicycle workshop.  In a laid back haze of smoke the Ghanaian were building beautiful bamboo frames, held together by epoxy resin.  The aim of the workshop is to create sustainable transport in rural Ghana and help combat the high unemployment levels, seems good to us!

We’d really like to let more people hear about Pedallers’ Arms.  We are pretty stretched for time but one way of doing it is to ask you to tell your friends about us, tell strangers about us, and interact with us on the internet.  Posting reviews about us on any website, sharing links on social media and generally pushing Pedallers’ will help raise our internet profile so more people find out about us.

If you have any other ideas then let us know.

5-7pm

Films, cake, refreshments

Beijing Bicycle 2001 (105 min)
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Selection of shorts including “Cyclists Special” 1955

Beijing Bicycle transplants the theme of the classic Italian movie “Bicycle Thieves” to modern day China. In a city of a million bicycles Guei, a young man from the country, is making his way in the capital by working as a bicycle courier. From his wage he is gradually paying off the cost of his bike. Just as he is about to make the final payment, it is stolen and he finds himself suddenly without a job and devoid of status. He embarks on a frantic search to get it back

Facebook event

This Sunday 17th March we are open from 12-4pm for our monthly women and trans session. This is a safe space where you can bring your bike down to work on. All mechanics on duty are women/trans.
Facebook event HERE
See you there!

Hi,

You may have noticed we have a brand spanking new logo.  It has been very kindly designed by a local graphic designer, Chucho.  We have been putting the new flyers out around Leeds.  If you can distribute any then please come and take some to help more people hear about Pedallers’ Arms.

Here are the new flyers:

We also have a new poster which we are hoping to get put up in all the council One-Stop Centres in Leeds, if you know anywhere else we can put them please let us know.

Here is our poster:

Pedallers’ Poster A3

Thank you very much to Pete Shadbolt who did our original logo, gone but not forgotten:

5 – 7pm
Films, cake, refreshments.

Bicycle Thieves (1h 30)
+ a selection of shorts

Lamberto Maggiorani plays Antonio, an unemployed man who finds a coveted job that requires a bicycle. When it is stolen on his first day of work, Antonio and his young son Bruno (Enzo Staiola) begin a frantic search, learning valuable lessons along the way. The movie focuses on both the relationship between the father and the son and the larger framework of poverty and unemployment in postwar Italy.
Vittorio DeSica 1948

https://www.facebook.com/events/430946156978768/

At Pedallers’ Arms we’d like it if cycling was just the normal way of getting somewhere. This talks about a cyclist from Little London and how that used to be the case.

We were on Dissident Island radio show in Nov 2011 but forgot to add the audio so here it is a bit late:

Update: we now stock lots of new parts.  Although we are very pro helping people to do their own bike mechanics we also really support local bike shops and the work they do for cycling.