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Cycle parking

Jake and Pete at Jakes bikes with some of the thousands of bike stands supplied by Life Cycle UK.

Life Cycle provides free cycle parking under our Take a Stand scheme. Voluntary sector groups, schools, small businesses, churches and surgeries, in fact almost any type of organisation, are welcome to apply! Good cycle parking tells the world that you're an environmentally-friendly organisation and it's a proven way of deterring cycle theft.

The current situation as regarding the availability of cycle parking is as follows:

Bristol - we have a large number of stands available. You can have up to 4 stands, assuming your application is succesful

BANES - we are delighted that BANES have rejoined the scheme. You can ask for one free stand.

Gloucestershire - we have a limited number of stands available, with two available per applicant

South Gloucestershire - we have a number of stands available, with 4 availalbe per applicant

North Somerset - we have now filled our quota for the current financial year. If you are interested, in case further funding becomes availalbe, or for the future, please register your interest by emailing us (see below)

Somerset - we have now filled our quota for the current financial year. If you are interested, in case further funding becomes availalbe, or for the future, please register your interest by emailing us (see below)

Swindon - we have a small number of stands available, with two available per applicant

 Registering your interest

Just email us, saying who you are and giving basic contact details.

How to install your stands

Read this

 How to apply

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Take a Stand

is supported by the various local authorities that cover the above areas. Life Cycle is pleased to be working in partnership with them.

Other types of cycle stand are also available.  Please visit our Resource Centre to see the range and to order online.

What people say! Murrays of Clevedon

Paul, one of Murray's chefs, told us: 'The bike stands allow us to cycle to work in the knowledge that when unattended they are secure. Although most of the staff  live within a 4 mile radius of Murrays, it is not unusual to find 9 or 10 bikes tethered in the courtyard. 9 or 10 cars off the road! Thank you, Life Cycle.'

Useless Cycle parking!

If you want to know how not to install cycle parking, check out this report from the Greater Manchester Trafford Cycle campaign.

Our stands

We supply bolt-down and sink-in stands, with a black rilsan finish.

Dimensions H 800mm x 700mm W Bolt down style root fix 1100mm x 700mm W 48.3mm od x 3mm tube used

 

RILSAN® NYLON COATINGS

The ultimate long lasting thermoplastic coating for steel. Our suppliers (Simbars) have been coating with this material for over 20 years.

Rilsan® nylon is extremely hard wearing, scratch and chip resistant, warm to the touch and kind to cycle frames.

The products are fully shot blasted before being heated to 350oc and then dipped into our fluidized bed of Rilsan® powder. On contact with the hot surface the Rilsan® melts and flows out to a smooth homogeneous coating fully encapsulating the product,a process known as Rilsanisation®.

Rilsan® is made from a renewable plant source and provides the perfect solution to corrosion without costing the earth.