We are excited to announce that Twitter sensation Steve Evans will be attending the Liverpool Cycling Festival on Saturday 12th November.

Steve Evans, a Paramedic and cyclist has created a first aid course which is aimed specifically at cyclists. He is trying to distribute it as widely as possible and at no charge.

Unfortunately, first aid is an issue that can often be overlooked and ignorance of even basic procedures can result in unnecessary trauma and serious situations becoming worse. If it’s an area that you haven’t looked at for a while – or even if you have – then the course is freely available to download and use.

Copyright, of course, belongs to Steve but he assures us that he’s happy for anyone to use it as they wish and to help in the effort to circulate it.

You can download Steve’s first aid course from:

http://www.rsf.org.uk/links.htm

Steve is also on Twitter , you can find him by searching @paramedicsteve. Using Twitter Steve’s first aid course has reached 1.43 million people.  

The Cycling Projects Wheels for All ride we be starting at the Liverpool Cycling Festival @ 11:00am. The ride will be on the traffic free promenade and will finish back at the cycling festival at 12:00pm.

After the ride has finished, Cycling Projects will be on hand with the specially adapted bikes for anyone who would like a go.

Further information about Wheels For All can be found on the Cycling Projects website at:

http://www.cycling.org.uk/

We are excited to announce that Giant Liverpool will be attending the Liverpool Cycling Festival on Saturday 12th November.

Giant Liverpool will be bringing a marquee on the day and selling a range of Giant cycling products.

They will also be bringing several demo bikes from their Road, Cyclo Cross and Mountain Bike range. These bikes will be available for demo rides throughout the day, Proof of ID and address is required in order to demo the bikes.

If you wish to find out more information about Giant Liverpool check out their website at:

http://www.giant-liverpool.co.uk/

Saturday, 12th November see’s the North West Cyclo Cross League return to Otterspool Park for the 2nd time in a fortnight. Organised by the Liverpool Century Road Club, the Youth event will start the racing off at 11am with the main event starting at 1pm. The Geoff Bewley Memorial races will be just one of many cycling events taking place on the day as part of the Liverpool Cycling Festival. Cycling Projects and Cycle Aigburth will be organising various cycling activities on the day such as Dr Bike, Wheels for All demonstration, Social Rides and a Children’s cycling skills course.

The cyclo-cross event is a memorial to Geoff Bewley who saw the need for cyclists to keep fit in the winter months and cyclo-cross was ideal. Geoff organised the Century event along with other local clubs using Otterspool Park as the venue. In the early days he would be ringing around looking for sponsorship from local traders and supermarkets, taking small drinks and mars bars etc.

Geoff really did take the event to heart every year designing a hard course. He would, along with Betty his wife, travel to all the cross committee meetings and have his say. Geoff had 60 years membership, 10 years as club President when he died. And it was a 100% effort over those years for the club, running winter training sessions in school gyms, weight training in his garage. He would organise the speed runs, the weekend away training at Dolly Hall (Wales) and in the early days at Lilleshall. He enjoyed anything cycling, he was Mr Century.

Events
11am – Youth Race, 30 minutes, £5 entry fee
12pm – Under 12′s, 15 minutes, No entry fee
1pm – Sen/Vet/W/Jun, 1 hour, £10 entry fee

The Course
The course will be similar to last year’s event due to the sheer amount of positive comments we got back from the riders. Again we will be using the feared ‘Ottersberg’ and ‘Muro Di Otterspool’ climbs. Otterspool Park offers something for everyone and we have designed a challenging yet fun course, because we think Cross is really about having fun in the mud! the course consists of tarmac paths, grass fields, descents, run-ups, off camber turns, hairpins, planks and much much more.

Signing On
Riders will be able to sign on at the fantastic Otters Café. Otters Café will be serving hot food and drinks throughout the day. The café is allowing us to use their toilets on the day, no changing is allowed in the toilets. Please do not enter the café wearing muddy footwear, the café opened 1 month ago and we want to continue using it in the future.

Prizes
BioRacer have provided Winners Jersey’s for the Winner of the Main Event and the 1st Woman. The top 3 finishers in each category in the Under 12’s event will receive a medal and certificate.

Sponsors
With out the generosity of our sponsors the event could not go ahead, please visit our sponsor websites. Links to their websites can be found from the Liverpool Cycling Festival Website.

Sponsors:
Kuota, www.HighonBikes.com, BioRacer, www.standoutdriveways.com, www.standoutglass.co.uk, Giant Liverpool, David Lloyd Speke, Active Adventures, Otters Café, Target Sports, Errea, The James Munro Restaurant, www.aplparking.co.uk, www.skyparkliverpool.co.uk and Muc Off.

The Merseyside Cycling Campaign will be attending the Liverpool Cycling Festival on Saturday 12th November 2001.

You will be able to join the Merseyside Cycling Campaign on the day, There is no charge for membership but the campaign relies on donations of time and money.

MCC will also be distributing free copies of their Pedal Press magazine which the Liverpool Cycling Festival recently has an article in.

For more information about the Merseyside Cycling Campaign see their website:

http://www.merseycycle.org.uk/index.html

Breeze Network will be attending the Liverpool Cycling Festival on Saturday 12th November 2001.

The Breeze network from British Cycling is all about fun, local bike rides for women, by women – and there’s a whole range of support, training and ride opportunities too. The network’s informal and relaxed. It’s what you want it to be.

Breeze bike rides are free. Getting involved is easy. You can either use the Ride Finder to look for a Breeze ride in your area (more are being added all the time), or if you’re interested in starting a group, why not become a Breeze champion?

Breeze is part of British Cycling’s commitment to getting more women riding bikes for fun, and encouraging more women to join British Cycling. Together we can change cycling for women. Be part of the Breeze network.

 For more information check out the Breeze website at:

http://www.goskyride.com/Breeze

Cycling Projects will be leading a pedal away ride on Saturday 12th November starting and finishing at the Liverpool Cycling Festival. The ride will set off from Otterspool Park at 12pm with trained cycle instructors, all of the ride will be traffic free along the promenade.

The ride will finish back at the cycling festival at about 1pm, just in time to watch the main cyclo cross race or get a hot cup of coffee at the Otters Cafe.

Cycling Projects have a small number of pool bikes which can be used on the day if you don’t have your own  bike. To book one of these pool bikes please contact Kevin McCann, his email address is kevin.mccann@cycling.org.uk

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