{"id":126431,"date":"2025-09-07T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126431\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:19:07","slug":"free-bike-checks-offered-to-cyclists-in-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126431\/","title":{"rendered":"Free bike checks offered to cyclists in Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Free bike checks are being offered to cyclists in Cornwall during September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The checks by professional bike mechanics are being offered at St Austell Leisure Centre from 10:00 BST to 13:00 BST on Tuesday and Bodmin Leisure Centre from 10:00 BST to 13:00 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Funded by Active Travel England and Cornwall Council, the Better Engagement in Active Travel Project is a joint initiative between GLL and The Cornwall Bicycle Project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An easy ride out session is taking place from 10:00 BST to 12:00 BST on Wednesday at St Austell and another at Bodmin at the same time on 19 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Anyone with a bike is welcome to come along and get tyres, brakes and gears checked for free and the mechanics will advise if more needs to be done that can&#8217;t be fixed on the day,&#8221; said Karen Edmond, GLL Community Sport Manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The cycle rides are a great way of meeting new people and brushing up cycling skills, especially once bikes have been given an expert once-over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Booking in advance is essential as turn-ups on the day aren&#8217;t possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free bike checks are being offered to cyclists in Cornwall during September. The checks by professional bike mechanics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-126431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}