To celebrate the summer we are holding a special sale on our second hand clothing and accessories throughout August…
Come along during our opening times and browse the rails! We’ve got cycling tops (branded, plain, and jazzy!), cycling shorts, mitts, buffs, jackets and more! In a variety of sizes and colours. Everything is unique so when it’s gone, it’s gone!
We’re thrilled to announce a series of led walks taking place this year, hosted by Joe, the Active Travel Project Co-ordinator at our partner organisation, Touchstone.
These 5-10 mile walks are perfect for anyone interested in exploring the local countryside but who don’t know where to start. They will all be accessible by public transport, with meeting points starting at either Leeds Bus/Railway station.
Details of the first two walks are up on our event page – find out more below. To reserve your spot or for any questions about future events, simply contact Joe on 07741 328 786.
This year we have a number of vouchers available to give you £40 towards buying a refurbished bicycle or cycling accessories from Leeds Bike Mill, or get help with repairing your bike at the Pedallers’ Arms volunteer-run workshop.
These vouchers are aimed to help anyone on a low household income, who does not have savings or a family or community safety net, and who doesn’t cycle regularly or at all due to not having a bike or the equipment they need.
Who can get a voucher?
You qualify for a voucher if 2 or more apply (this is based on trust, we do not need proof):
How can I get a voucher?
Contact our team and we will advise you about getting the help you need with either getting a bike or accessories, or repairing your existing bike, and we will check we have a voucher available for you.
If you’re wanting to buy a bike or accessories, you can also check our website in advance to see what we have in stock (if you can’t see a bike that’s suitable for you, keep checking back as we regularly update the page with more refurbished bikes).
If there’s something you want to view, call us to book an appointment and mention you’d like to use a voucher so we can reserve one for you.
How long will the scheme last?
We only have a limited number of vouchers, so the scheme will last as long as we have available vouchers to distribute. Only one voucher per person, available to Leeds residents aged 16+.
This 2025 voucher scheme is part of Leeds Bike Mill’s Community Active Travel Hub project, supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
We are now holding monthly weekend drop-in sessions on the first Saturday of the month, and our first session is themed all around cycling and walking with children!
When: Saturday 5th April | drop in from 10.30am – 2pm
Where: Leeds Bike Mill, 37 Mabgate Green, Leeds, LS9 7DS
We have a range of kids bikes and our staff can share tips for cycling and touring with children. We can also share advice about how to move your kids around by bike, including using child seats, bike trailers and cargo bikes.
We’ll have a range of second hand child seats and tag-alongs to browse, and a trailer and trailgator (which turn a standard kids bike into a tag-along!) for you to have a look at and help you decide what is the best option for your family.
Also, come along to meet Joe, from our partner organisation, Touchstone, who will be joining us for part of the day, with information about walking, including local group walks and advice on building confidence and fitness through walks in nature.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us!
Leeds Bike Mill is running this event as a Community Active Travel Hub, a project supported by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, aimed at enabling more people to cycle, wheel and walk more often.
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We are over the moon to announce that we have been awarded funding by West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) to be one of their Community Active Travel Hubs over the next 18 months. Aiming to help people cycle, walk and wheel more often, WYCA have given grants to organisations across West Yorkshire that will support people to gain the skills, confidence and equipment they need to make more active journeys.
Here at Leeds Bike Mill, we’re passionate about cycling as a way of getting around our city every day, and we believe that by making cycling more accessible and affordable, we can empower people to enjoy the freedom that cycling offers. Cycling is the most energy efficient form of transport, and we aim to make cycling even more green by recycling disused bikes, finding them new owners and diverting them from landfill.
But it’s not all about cycling… We’ve teamed up with Touchstone to deliver a series of guided group walks around Leeds to showcase some of the beautiful walking routes and green spaces in our local area. Touchstone provides an array of health and wellbeing services to a diverse set of communities around Leeds, and we’re excited to work with them over the coming months!
We’ve also teamed up with Pedallers’ Arms to set up a voucher scheme for people on low incomes to be able to learn how to maintain their bikes. Pedallers’ Arms are a DIY bike workshop where friendly volunteer mechanics help cyclists in Leeds to diagnose and fix problems with their bikes whilst developing their knowledge of bike mechanics along the way.
We’ll be sharing more details about events and opportunities over the coming months, join our newsletter to stay in the loop!
This project is being delivered with the support of West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and is aimed at enabling more people to cycle, wheel and walk more often.
Leeds Bike Mill will be supporting International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March!
With women less than half as likely to be regular cyclists as men, we’re keen to work towards breaking barriers that women face around cycling.
To help more women gain access to bikes and the freedom they provide, we will be offering a free Dr Bike service to women and non-binary people, between 11am and 3.00pm, this including a safety check on your bike, small repairs, and advice to help keep you cycling (or help you start)!
Call in for advice on purchasing a bike/accessories, cycle routes, and how to access free cycle training through Cycle North. Come along for a coffee, a cake and a chat!
To find out more about the gender imbalance around cycling in the UK, take a look at this article from Cycling UK
From February 2024 when you purchase an adult bike from Leeds Bike Mill you can also enjoy free 1-year membership (ending February 2025) with local cycling club Seacroft Wheelers (usually £15/year).
To redeem your free membership please complete your application here. On page 2 of the form select “Leeds Bike Mill” from the “How did you hear about the club?” drop down menu.
(You may be asked to send a picture of your receipt of your bike purchase).
Seacroft Wheelers are a friendly, inclusive cycling club based in East Leeds but welcome riders from everywhere.
They offer road and off road rides for beginners through to seasoned riders. The amount of women in the club is growing all the time, they run Women only rides and have several female ride leaders. If you want to develop your riding skills and fitness and find some new cafes or just fancy some social rides with a welcoming bunch check them out: www.seacroftwheelers.co.uk
Check out their website for more information, and then head over to our bikes for sale page to take your pick!
We’ll be at the Old Fire Station this February half term running Learn to Fix bike maintenance workshops and Dr Bike appointments!
Learn to Fix | Bike Maintenance workshops | Monday 12th February | Sessions starting 9.30am, 12 noon and 2.30pm
Bring your bike to one of these 2-hour workshops at the Old Fire Station to learn more about how your bike works and tips for maintaining it!
Dr Bike appointments | Thursday 15th February | 30 minute slots between 11am – 2pm
This a 1:1 appointment with Dr Bike. Your bike will be checked over by a qualified mechanic and basic repairs will be made where possible e.g. adjustment of brakes and gears; replacement of cables / brake pads; repairing a puncture; oiling the chain.
The mechanic will advise you of any further repairs that need to be made.
Only one bike can be checked at the appointment. You are welcome to book more than one appointment if e.g. you have your own bike and your child’s bike to be looked at.
11-4pm Sunday the 22nd of October
Come along to this year’s Leeds Bike Mill Jumble Sale!
We’ve collected loads of bikey bits and bobs over the years, and want to make it more accessible to you!
We’ll have loads of parts, accessories and more ready for you to rummage through. If you’re looking for the perfect part in your latest bike build or if you just want to accessorise your bike with some bargain second-hand bells, bottle cages or baskets, we hope you’ll find it here! There will be a wide range on offer in terms of quality and price points (from ‘pay-as-you-feel’, to suggested donation, to priced). All money raised will be put back into our not-for-profit work, and help us to increase our range of affordable refurbished bikes and training opportunities.
The government recently announced it was cutting the budget for cycling, walking and wheeling, a huge loss for improving the options and accessibility for active and healthy travel in Leeds. Overall, the cuts will result in London having over “three times as much funding per year for active travel than the rest of England combined“.
We don’t yet know how the funding cuts will impact us in West Yorkshire, or whether the courses we run will be affected, but if you’ve been thinking about doing some training and haven’t booked yet, there’s no time like the present!
A quick recap of some of the events and resources available at the moment in West Yorks*:
*Please let us know if there’s more we should add to this list!
Before this funding came along, we used to have to charge a fee on a sliding scale for our Bike Maintenance courses, with those paying the higher rates contributing towards the Leeds Bike Mill Bursary Scheme. This scheme helped to make cycle maintenance training available for everyone regardless of circumstances, by providing free places on our courses.
We’re delighted to be running free courses at the moment, which means we’re still holding some Bursary Scheme funds from the old days, as we will only ever use them to give access to bike maintenance training for the people of Leeds. Assuming one day we will have to charge for courses again, you can donate towards the bursary scheme here.
If you’ve been on a free course and want / are able to pay-it-forward, it will really make a difference to someone in the future.
Sadly, according to Sustrans, the government’s decision will make it almost impossible to reach the government’s own targets to have “50% of all journeys in English towns and cities being walked or cycled by 2030, and for the UK to be Net Zero by 2050”.
Despite this diasppointing news, we will continue doing what we can to continue to improve access to cycling and bike maintenance in our community. Thank you so much for all your support. Hope to see you on a course soon!
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