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Category Archives: 56a Specific
RIP Orange Fence
56a was made possible through squatting, so today’s eviction of the Orange Fence squat on Colvestone Crescent in Dalston, Hackney feels like the end of a London borough once diverse – including numerous squats providing an example of alternative, creative … Continue reading
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Madison interlude
Also, L visited Revolution Cycles in Madison, WI. Unfortunately she wasn’t able to get an interview from this (especially since it was a politically hot summer up in Madison), but is sharing some of the bike hot photos. [slideshow] “They can … Continue reading
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Tagged 56a London, bike mechanics, bike shops, Madison WI, Revolution Cycles
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Bristol Bike Gathering!
[slideshow] Last week the Bike Room took a little field trip down to Bristol for the second nation-wide bicycle gathering (first one was in Manchester) . Following up on the first gathering last March, this was a meeting for organizers of bicycle-based … Continue reading
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We’re on The Bike Show!
We were recently featured on resonance.fm’s Bike Show programme, “Fix Your Own Bike.” Check us out! “Community bike workshops are a beautiful idea. A place where anyone can learn the basics of bicycle repair by doing it for themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Bike Show, bikes, DIY, Elephant and Castle, fix your own, London, Resonance.fm
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Bam.
This. And this. are for sale. More info here.
Posted in 56a Specific, Bikes for sale
Tagged 1950s, bikes, bikes for sale, hercules, phillips, vintage
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UK Bikes Project Gathering
Some of the 56a crew were up in Manchester last weekend for the grassroots/DIY bike conference (ie UK Bikes Project Gathering) with other groups around the UK to share stories, relate and socialise, skill share, discuss, and munch together. We … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycles, bike conference, bike generator, ekster, ibikeMCR, Manchester, tandem bicycle, UK bikes
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Benefit Gig for 56a, this Thursday 13th January
(Featuring shifties EKSTER on the accordion and SLANGBELLE on folk/punk guitar)
Sterevo’s Trip: UK to Italy
56a shiftie Sterevo recently finished his 12 day bike ride from London to Italy! The photo on the left is of his bike at the French-Italian border, on “a marvellous sunny morning.” Some good anecdotes to … Continue reading
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Bikespace — New and improved
We’ve had some changes to the bikespace over the last few months — mainly we’ve expanded the work space to the east side of the bikespace where we used to hang bikes for sale. (Looking in the archive we couldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 56a, bicycles, bike workshop, London, vintage brakes
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Chaos and Bikes! A 56abikespace History
Apologies for taking ages for posting, but we had been doing a bit of renovation in the Bikespace during the autumn. So for this post we’re focusing on the history of the 56abikespace. Here’s a bit of narrative as told … Continue reading
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Tagged 56a, autonomous spaces, bike history, critical mass, London, radical
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