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Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride

Monday, March 8th, 2010. Published in Bikes & Cycling, Strong Island by

Roll up, roll up, it’s The Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride. Numbers are looking pretty good and everyone seems to be talking about it. As with the last April ride numbers are sure to vary as it could be cold, rainy or amazing sunshine. Obviously it’s going to be sunny and an amazing day.

The general concensses is to keep everything the same as last year. Starting from The Bridge Tavern at 2pm the ride will take us along the seafront down to Eastney, then back inland slightly and along Highland Road and Albert Road taking us back towards Old Portsmouth and finishing up at The Point, Spice Island. It’s a very casual 8 mile ride that’s perfect for people of all ages, fitness levels and of course any manner of bike. As always a few of us will meet up early at The Bridge Tavern for pre game drinks and food at 12.00pm.

Last years Summer Bike Ride saw over 120 riders and all manner of bicycles in attendance including wheelie popping Chopper riders, Fixed Gear tricksters, Shoppers, Customs, BMX’s, Racers, Trick Bikes, Mountain Bikes, Cruisers and Old Schools, it really was a fantastic mix of two wheeled Strong Islanders. We even had some visitors from as far as Bournemouth.

Head over to the Facebook Events page for updates and to see who else is involved and check some of the images from last years ride over at My Flickr and the Strong Island Bike Rides Flickr

As always this ride is by no means a political statement, critical mass, reaction towards the council or statement of any kind and is by no means an event, just friends in Southsea getting together for a bike ride to the beach. All very innocent. It’s all about Sunday fun with friends and bikes.

See you all there…

Click on the poster for a larger printable version.

Click on the route map for a closer look or head over to Google Maps HERE

Strong Island Roundabout from Tristan on Vimeo.

Filmed by Paul Stone

And for all you COR fans out there it’s the Balearic Easter Space Bonnet Boutique with DJ ALFREDO!! This starts at 6pm, so those of you on the ride will have to put your drinks down early and get your best Easter Bonnet on for the evening.

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9 Comments to Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride

  1. Think i may have popped into bored and mentioned im doing a charity bike ride in june, from London to Paris to raise money for my dads care home, the queen alexandra hospital home in worthing. Was wondering if it would be ok to bring a couple of collection buckets along on the day and just ask people if they can spare some change to help me reach my target. Always good to get a few miles training in as well.

    Thanking you very much,

    Keef

    Keef Hicks on March 8th, 2010

  2. Hey Keef. I can’t imagine anyone would mind. It’s all for a good cause.

    Tristan on March 9th, 2010

  3. [...] Blogroll Until the Strong Island bank holiday bike ride people! For more details head over to the Strong Island [...]

    Not long… « Southsea Fixed Gear Fight Club on March 12th, 2010

  4. I am gutted. It clashes with Something For The Weekend skate comp in Southampton. :(

    Ollie on March 12th, 2010

  5. Stong Island Bike Ride…

    Little head up for the Pompey bicycle community. For the ones back home who still want to come over for a little visit to south of England, this is definitely the weekend to come over. Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride. I’m looking forward…….

    EHVFXD on March 14th, 2010

  6. [...] to come over for a little visit to south of England, this is definitely the weekend to come over. Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride. I’m looking [...]

    EHVFXD | Strong Island Bank Holiday Bike Ride on March 14th, 2010

  7. [...] collab bike that will be on show. Tasty. Don't forget the Strong Island bike ride on the 4th ( http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2010/…y-bike-ride-2/ ) See you all [...]

    FAO Unipack rider in Portsmouth - London Fixed-gear and Single-speed on March 17th, 2010

  8. still on if its raining?

    alan on April 3rd, 2010

  9. I’ll be there…

    Tristan Savage on April 3rd, 2010

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

Friday, January 27th, 2012. Published in Art, Craft & Design, Features, Photography by

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

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It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Friday, October 28th, 2011. Published in Community, Features, Local Events by

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage

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