get your bike tuned up for free in Finsbury Park this Saturday, 12-3pm

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on February 16, 2008 at 22:09

Did anybody go? Was this a sucess? Any idea whether it'll be reapreated?

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Permalink Reply by Alison P on February 18, 2008 at 21:44

I didn't go but happened to walk past and bikes were indeed being tuned! Looked like there were 2 people on duty and both were busy at the time.

A good idea, do hope people made use of it.

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Permalink Reply by empyrean_aisles on February 19, 2008 at 0:19

I went, and the two people there were very friendly and helpful. I got a repair done that would have taken me much longer to do myself, and found out some useful information about cycle shops in the area. Plus it was an absolutely beautiful day to be out cycling in Finsbury Park.

I think it's an impressive initiative. (But then I may be biased, being both an enthusiastic cyclist and hopelessly clumsy at fixing my or anybody else's bike. So it's exactly the right kind of service for someone like me, who really should learn more about how to remove chains and tighten sprockets and replace widgets and all that.) The one thing I'd say was that it wasn't at all clear *where* in the park the Dr Bike people would be. So I walked all around it and it took me a good half an hour to eventually find them by the footbridge over to Stroud Green. But I didn't mind too much. It was a very lovely day to be out and about.

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Permalink Reply by Adam on February 19, 2008 at 21:30

I'm sorry that I did not provide info as to where they would be situated - all the info I had was from the Haringey press release

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Permalink Reply by empyrean_aisles on February 19, 2008 at 21:41

Not your fault - I went to the Haringey council website to try and find out and they didn't have the information either.

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