Dear Parents/Carers
Dr Bike Health Check-up
We are members of the Junior Road Safety Committee at Springfield Primary School. Springfield Primary School has been successful in a funding bid to help promote active travel at the school – walking, cycling and scooting to school where possible (and also Park and Stride). The project has been devised by the school’s Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) Pupil Committee.
Part of this project is a Dr Bike day coming up on 14th June. The West Lothian Bike Library (www.wlbikelibrary.co.uk) is a Community Interest company based in Livingston and will be at the school with two trained Velotech bike mechanics on the 14th. They will offer quick health check-ups of pupil bikes brought to school on that day. This will be a 20min check-up and cover basics like tyre pressure, oil, tightening of components and cables etc. They have capacity for a max of 30 bikes on the day – if demand is higher than this, don’t worry, we will arrange another session in the future. A tag will be placed on each bike after the health check-up with details of any more significant work needing done to the bike e.g. new tyres, new brake pads etc. If you are interested in this session, please bring your child’s bike to the school for 08.30 on the 14th to the main front playground – someone will be on hand to show you where to take it. Bikes can be picked up as normal from the bike cycle racks in the school playground at 15.15. The bikes will get a check-up to make sure they are completely safe for cycling with.
Another part of our project is Cycle recycling. Do you have an old child’s bike at home that you no longer use and you would be willing to donate to the school?
Cycle Recycle
We are also asking pupils and teachers if they could donate any used bikes. A £10 voucher for use at the West Lothian Bike Library will be offered to the first 10 bikes brought in on 11th or 12th June. You can use this to get any other bikes you own repaired or serviced at the Bike Library and even to buy one of their stock of refurbished second hand bikes which start from £30, to replace the one that has been donated to the school.”
Please only bring bikes that are no longer in use. The bikes will be used for a rent a bike scheme. This will be at an affordable price for everyone because we think everyone should have the chance to ride a bike. Please bring in any old bikes to the school on either Monday 11th June or Tuesday 12th June. The West Lothian Bike Library will take these bikes away, assess their suitability for refurbishment / repair, and then return any repaired bikes to the school for future use by the school. Any bikes that cannot be repaired will be stripped for parts and used in the Bike Library’s general work.
Thank you for reading this letter
Yours Faithfully
Louise and Sophie
Junior Road Safety Officers
