When 2 Bike Clubs Collide!!! 19/12/2011

Tomorrow (Tuesday 20/12/11) sees the first joint Bike Club session between a Darlington and a Newcastle based Bike Club, with Darlington Youth Offending team (YOT) and Kids Kabin (Newcastle) staging a joint activity.

Simon Irwin, from Kids Kabin, is travelling South to Darlington to lend his bike fixing experience at the YOT’ Bike Club’s maintainance session. In return Simon is getting some of the bikes from the YOT team’s pool, that were originally unclaimed bikes donated from the Police.

The joint project came about last month, when Simon and Barry Griffiths (from Dalrington YOT) met at CTC’s Newcastle Roadshow. And once Barry had seen the fruits of Simon’s bike building skills, it was love at first trike! (Simon has constructed a mobile bike repair workshops on the frame of an old tricycle!) 

The joint session is hoped to be one of many and is a really good example of how two Bikes Clubs can benefit from one another!