Letter in May BikeBiz
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STAR LETTER
Big Pedal is
a firm fixture
in our calendar'
How one local bike retailer got involved in
the school cycle competition...
Dear BikeBiz
In the last edition you asked for information
regarding being involved in the Big Pedal.
We are very proud to say our two local
schools Dunbar Primary and Dunbar Grammar
both came second in Scotland.They also
finished seventh and eighth respectively
nationally. We have recently started tweeting
and it was great to get further involved with
the Big Pedal using this medium.
We awarded the class who pedalled the
most in the Primary category with water
bottles for their bikes, and we did that last
year too. As they narrowly missed out on a
prize (...again!) we contacted Sustrans who
very kindly gave us some of their promotional
goodies to give out to some of the other
children to say 'well done'. We also donated
ten free skatepark sessions for our local indoor
skatepark http://www.thespacenb.co.uk to the ten
Grammar school pupils who pedalled the
most. We all look forward to the Big Pedal, it's
a firm fixture in our local cycling calendar.
Our town of Dunbar lends itself to cycling
and people use it as such. This is one of the
reasons we felt opening our shop back in
2005 would be of service to our community.
We hope by offering a local service - one
which offers a wide selection and attends to
the various disciplines of cycling - we have
maintained and strengthened the cycling
ethos in our community.
Mandy J Cairns Ford
Belhaven Bikes
http://www.belhavenbikes.co.uk
http://www.twitter.com/belhavenbikes
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Belhaven Bikes got
behind the Big Pedal
this year, helping
more kids get on
their bikes
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