Stu Trett has photographed every single person that has been to his Olde Bike Shoppe over the past year. 100′s have passed through the doors. The Facebook page has all the info needed so if your bike needs some love stop by and enjoy a cuppa and be rest assured that it will be restored and treated with all the care and attention it needs. You can drop your bike off and collect the following day or he is offering the service to collect and deliver for free within PO5
Jayne Rodgers from Portsmouth City Council is organising a massive bike breaking session on Sat 17th July at Partnership Park, Rodney Road from 10am.
“Come and help, pick up bits. Everyone welcome. Lots of bikes to break up”.
Stuart Trett or ‘Beast’ as he is more affectionately known to friends has just started his own bicycle servicing and restoration business. Currently based in a garage in Southsea he has plans to open a shop in Southsea early next year.
On the sales side of things he is specialising in vintage, retro, classic old skool wheels, although he has in stock a complete range from kids bikes to mountain bikes, and can source almost anything you want. He offers a complete service, tune up, fixing of any problems and a professional clean and polish for £30 and a full restoration of any old classic for £50. Basically he would like you to fall back in love with your old bike rather than spending hundreds of pounds on a new one. You can call him to arrange an appointment on 07887 973014.
You can drop your bike off and collect the following day or he is offering the service to collect and deliver for free within PO5. Stuart is in his workshop all day every day from Monday to Friday, and usually in Southsea over the weekend. Spread the word and he is also open to barter if you can help him in any way to build his business.
“Thanks to all those that came along. It was a great day filled with some amazing designs, sun and beautiful bikes. From the harp bike to bikes made from scrap and turned into low riders, trikes and a homage to Dennis Hopper.” Claire Sambrook
See the Flickr group for more images. Further images will follow later in the week and please add/send your pics of the day to Flickr or via the website.
Southsea Skatepark is the venue for the main Love Your Bike Portsmouth event from 10am-5pm. Limited quantities of goodie bags so to avoid being left out get there early.
It’s going to be an action packed day with Ben Wilson showcasing his bikes and welding on site. Death Spray Custom will be airbrushing bikes, Tokyo Fixed Gear have a mini shop, Gocycle will be offering demos of their bike and showcasing special custom editions, RAW Bamboo will be bringing a few of their bikes and the new Fixei range will also be unveiled.
There will be loads of workshops and offers of help with customisation from various people including Portsmouth Creative Movement, Stu Rodda, Ian and Adam Macpherson. Badger Press will be bringing a screen printing set-up so that you can design your own bags etc, The Caravan Gallery will be bringing their own eclectic mix of cycling photographs and Southsea Gallery will be selling artwork including some of the spoke card designs.
Bike Polo and BMX Demos and the winner of the Schools Competition will be announced.
To check out the full list visit – http://www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/contributors
From 4pm head to Albert Road where Ian Parmiter will have an exhibition of Vintage Bikes with DJ Set and have your photograph taken on a penny farthing, ROKii Clothes will be announcing the winner of their bike and then head to Little Johnny Russell’s for free food at 6pm.
Look forward to seeing you all there.
Bike Polo started in Ireland in 1891. Portsmouth University BA 3D Design student’s Ben MacKenzie and Savio Ku started a Bike Polo team in Portsmouth in 2009 but this year the team has grown to over 12 people. A team consists of up to 8 a side with no-more than 5 players on the pitch at any time. It was actually an Olympic Sport in 1908.
I was lucky enough to see them train at the D-Day Museum Car Park on Southsea Seafront where they train every Wednesday from 7pm. The team in these photographs were Phil Oldham, Savio Ku, Ben MacKenzie, Josie Applegate, Alex Woods, James Roberts, Jameel Hussien, James Davis, Kirsten Filippi, Josie Young and Hugh Gibbs. To contact them and join visit the Facebook page.
See a demo of Bike Polo at the Love Your Bike event on 30/05/10.
Gearing up (sorry) for the LYB Bike event on 30/05/10 a selection and taster of bikes can now be seen in Debenhams, Southsea.
Featuring bikes by Ben Wilson, I Love Dust & Tokyo Fixed Gear, Gocycle, Andrew Lang’s ‘Y’ Stand, My Dog Sighs, Ian & Adam MacPherson, LEX, Fark. Backboards by Fark and Carl Downer at Sifer Design for the vinyls.
Full details on the website. Bellamy’s Antique shop on Albert Road is next for a display.
This Saturday 20th February why not pop along to the yard behind Southsea Fire station in Somers Road anytime between 10am and 2pm to help turn unwanted bicycles into useable ones. If you’d like to donate a bike to the project just bring it along. Roadworthy bicycles are also available to take away.
The session is organised by the Healthy Pompey team, backed by The Portsmouth Cycle Forum.
On the same day as the Strong Island Bike Ride the Council have organised Go Green at the seaside between the Hover Station and the War Memorial from 11am till 4pm. If you’re popping along be sure to look out for the Strong Island Bike Ride rolling past at about 2.30. You shouldn’t be able to miss us.
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.
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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