Love Your Bike

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Starts 10 until 1700

Bike culture is an important part of cycling and regaining the streets. Love Your Bike Portsmouth aims to encourage participants to fully embrace the possibilities of connecting with their bikes and explore the many ways that they can improve it’s appearance and design.

As part of a day event and showcase you will be offered the chance to ‘Customise Your Bike and in turn ‘Love Your Bike’.
Demonstrations will be staged by local and national artists and designers who will offer sessions in customisation and collaboration. International designer Ben Wilson will be welding bikes at the skatepark and also showcasing some of his work. There will be a wide selection of bikes and accessories available for purchase to suit all budgets. Local artists and designers will be involved with helping paint frames and customise bike parts. Does your bike need a make-over?

Watch out for our Love Your Bike custom tags around the city. If you have been tagged then please send your pics to us and also turn up at the event to showcase your bike or have it customised.

The line up currently stands at:
Ben Wilson – Along with 2 other designers they will make bikes from scrap. Will also showcase his new Donky Bike and bring down some of his own bikes to showcase and demo. Welding on site.
Benedict Radcliffe – TBC
Tokyo Fixed Gear – Will erect a mini-shop to showcase and sell a selection of their products. Demo’s of bikes too.
Gocycle – Demo, showcase and sell their electric bikes.
RAW Bamboo Bikes – Demo, showcase and sell their bikes
Bullitt Bikes – Showcase, Demo and sell their Cargo bikes.
Stu Rodda – will customise, stencil, modify bikes on the day. Also showcasing his custom trike.
I Love Dust – Showcase their fixed gear bike in collaboration with Tokyo Fixed Gear.
Wishbone Bikes – Showcase, demo and sell their bikes.
Rick Hayes – Showcase, demo and sell his new Viaggio Velo bikes.
Haslemere Cycles – Showcase, demo and sell bike range and accessories
Sandwich Bike by Bleyh – Showcase designs.
Peter Clutterbuck – showcase bike sculpture
PCM (Portsmouth Creative Movement) and Sifer Design – local street artists will stencil, spray and customise bikes.
Bike Artwork – an exhibition of bike inspired artwork from global and local artists. Some work for sale.
Fash ON – University student company selling bike inspired fashion – tee’s etc
Louise Bush – local craft artist selling bike accessories – baskets etc
Josie Young – local designer selling cycle hats.
Christina Gyles – local artist selling bike accessories – bike lock covers and showcasing a custom bike/s
Cycloc – The Award-Winning bike lock for walls
The Caravan Gallery – an exhibition of bike inspired photographs

The event starts at Southsea Skatepark from 10-5pm with further displays from 4pm at Ian Parmiter’s Antiques, Albert Road. To round off the day free food and a bike friendly pub await at Little Johnny Russell’s on Albert Road.

Love Your Bike Portsmouth is sponsored by The University of Portsmouth Creative Campus* Initiative and Portsmouth City Council’s Health Town’s Initiative.

To get involved and also get more information please contact: claire.sambrook@port.ac.uk

*’This project has been supported by the Creative Campus Initiative, a consortium of South East universities working together in support of the Cultural Olympiad
The University of Portsmouth is part of the Creative Campus Initiative, a new consortium of thirteen Higher Education Institutions in the South East delivering a dynamic programme of cultural events and artworks in response to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

For further information about the consortium please visit: http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/cci

• Visit www.loveyourbikeportsmouth.co.uk/love/ for more information
• Email claire.sambrook@port.ac.uk