By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425
Andy Chivers of Cyclox volunteers as a mechanic Kathryn McNicoll, of Cyclox, and Josh Lenthall, of Active Oxfordshire, celebrate the first anniversary of an important cycling project. One year on from the start of the Bikes for Key Workers project we have handed out our last bike to a key worker, making the total in Oxford 345 bikes. With the Windrush Bike Project in Witney refurbishing at least 100 bikes, and the Bicester project over 60, that means 500 bikes county wide. In Oxford, the project was made possible through the collaboration between Cyclox and Active Oxfordshire and the generosity of donors and volunteer mechanics.
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Cyclox members are a varied bunch, united by a belief in the pleasure and benefits of cycling. Perhaps the oldest Cyclox member still riding a bike is now in his 90th year. He regularly rides from Marston into town, sometimes coming back by Donnington Bridge. When Cyclox heard about his life on a bike we knew we wanted to share his story. Hubert Allen was born in 1931 in the Trust Territory of Tanganyika (now mainland Tanzania) where his parents were teachers. For his eighth birthday he was given a bike at his grandparents’ home in Kenya; but it was much further south that he learned to ride it.