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Winter-Spring 2014/15 Perth and KinrossSustrans I Bike NewsHundreds of bikes fixed by Dr. Bike!I’d love to hear from you…During Dr. Bike events children are encouraged to bring their bike toschool to receive a free safety check and minor adjustments from Dr.Bike, with the support from bike mechanics at Comrie Croft Bikes,Crighton Cycles and Loch Leven Cycles. Five events ran this termwith over 200 bikes checked and fixed.I’m Kelly Fry, Sustrans’ schools officer forPerth and Kinross. Please get in touch ifyou have any great school stories orwould like to find out more about ourschools work.Tel: 01738 477 395Mob: 07825 619 716Email: Kelly.fry@sustrans.org.ukTwitter: @ibikeperthWe would like to offer a big thanks to all our bike mechanics at ComrieCroft, Crighton Cycles and Loch Leven Cycles who make Dr. Bikepossible!Winter Cycling TipsKeep it bright - bright clothing andreflectives will help your stand out fromdusk to dawn.Take your lights - with around six hoursof daylight in winter, lights and sparebatteries are essential.Wrap up tight - gloves, warm hats and a scarf/buff will keep off the chill.Ride it right - look out for icy patches (dark patches), wet leaves and potholesfull of water . Choose well gritted routes in deep winter and remember it’s darkat 4pm.Check your bike - salty roads speed up corrosion in winter, so keep your chainand gears well oiled. A quick A-B-C check (air, brakes, chain) before every ridewill flag up any major faults with your bike....is back! Join hundreds of thousandsof pupils between 2-20 March for theUK’s biggest school cycle andscooting event. The more you scootand cycle, the better your chance towin some amazing prizes, from bikeand scooter storage to cycle stunt andskills shows from some of the world’stop riders! Choose from the 10-day orthree-day challenge, and this year youcan enter individual classes or as awhole school.Details and registration atwww.bigpedal.org.ukSustrans is the charity that’s enabling people to travel by foot, bike orpublic transport for more of the journeys we make every day. It’s time we allbegan making smarter travel choices. Make your move and supportSustrans today. www.sustrans.org.uk© Sustrans 2012. Registered Charity No. 326550 (England and Wales) SCO39263 (Scotland)Perth and Kinross Sustrans I Bike newsletter, Winter-Spring 2014-15

New Year, New Revolutions!....Did you know the average personconsumes a whopping 6000 calories onChristmas day alone!To help you kick 2015 off with a good startand for ideas on how to burn off thosecalories with lots of walking and cyclingcheck out the Sustrans Buzz Feed here:http://www.buzzfeed.com/sustransscotland/burn-calories-thischristmas-not-the-turkey-11jamThe team have also created a top tips forcycling during the winter months :http://www.buzzfeed.com/sustransscotlandHere’s an idea! Why not get your bikecrews to check out both of these articlesand they could create something similarfor the I bike notice boards.Hype that site...www.sustrans.org.uk/teachersYour one-stop shop for all our handy guides, fun classroomresources, information sheets, and exciting challenges andschemes—most available to download free-of-charge.Walking and cycling to and from school isabout to get that little bit easier thanks to a newfund which is being managed by Sustrans Scotland. The£883,500 pot is for local authorities up and down the country tofund 12 new projects.The Safer Routes to Schools Implementation Fund is SustransScotland’s grant scheme for new infrastructure as identifiedthrough the school travel planning process for the financial year2014/15. This is a one year funding programme from theSustainable Transport Team in Transport Scotland, withinScottish Government.Funded projects aim to increase walking and cycling levels inand around schools. Projects have often been identified bylocal authorities and local communities but in most cases,funding has not been available until now.Projects range from a £800,000 development in Fife aimed atimproving cycling and walking routes to the new LevenmouthCampus development, which will absorb Buckhaven HighSchool and Kirkland High School when they relocate in August2016, down to a £7,500 scheme in Dundee, which will seevehicle activated signs installed to help slow speeding drivers.Selfie CompetitionFor more information on the fund and approved projects, emailsimon.strain@sustrans.org.ukTop tips for the spring term Take part in The Big Pedal, 2-20 March. You could winsome amazing prizes and see incredible numbers of youngpeople scooting and cycling to school. Choose the 10 orthree-day challenge and take part as a class or as awhole-school. Register at www.sustrans.org.uk/bigpedal See Events on pg4 and use any themed weeks, dates orevents to celebrate walking, cycling or scooting in variousways… Burns Night, Chinese New year, Valentines Day,Easter and the clocks changing are all coming upSend your favourite picture of you and yourbicycle in an exciting place. You could winan exclusive Sustrans buff!Send your photos to:Kelly.fry@sustrans.org.ukGet these resources… We have updated infosheets on the benefits of active travel,finding funding, choosing and installing cycle and scooterstorage, plus becoming a school champion. Find them atwww.sustrans.org.uk/teachers under Help Yourself Discover how safe the streets are around your school withthe Local Road Safety Map. It gives you information from2008-13 and could be a good tool to use with our Big StreetSurvey. Visit www.axa.co.uk/roadsafeschools/localroadsafetyindexPerth and Kinross Sustrans I Bike newsletter, Winter-Spring 2014-15

Our work with young people in the UKSpring term welcomes back The Big Pedal, the UK’s largest interschoolcycling and scooting challenge. Last year we surged pastthe one million journeys to school target for the first time, thisyear we’d like to pass two million.We’d love as many schools as possible to take part, so pleaseask any you work with to join us – there are great prizes, rangingfrom bike and scooter storage to cycle stunt shows by some of theworld’s top riders. The challenge lasts 15 days, but it is schools’best 10 which will count, or they can do the three-day challenge ifit suits them better.It’s free to enter and on top of being a huge amount of fun, it helpsmake a lasting change. When we surveyed schools who took part,96% of respondents said it raised awareness of cycling andscooting and 76% said that pupils continued to cycle and scootto school following the event.Schools can enter this year as individual classes or as wholeschoolsand they can register now at www.bigpedal.org.ukDon’t forget, we also have Sustrans’ Big Shift – an onlinechallenge available all year round, including all forms of activetravel (walking, cycling, scooting and skating). It’s free and we’llset targets for schools to make a Small Step, Big Stride or GiantLeap with their active journeys. They can take part atwww.bigshift.sustrans.org.ukSomething else to look forward to in January is our new onlineshop where schools can purchase Sustrans resources,incentives and goodies to support and inspire active travel, suchas for our Superheroes scheme. Make a note in you calendar tovisit www.movewithsustrans.org.uk when the new term starts.Dates for the diaryJanuary25 th Burns Night – write (or find)poems about walking and cyclingFebruary14 th Valentines Day – show how muchyou love walking, cycling and scooting19 th Chinese New Year starts –renowned for their fireworks, what canyou do to stay bright and visible on theschool journey?March2 nd -20 th The Big Pedal15 th Mothers Day20 th Spring Equinox29 th British Summer Time startsApril3 rd -6 th Easter weekend7 th World Health Day – use our‘Benefits of Active Travel’ infosheet todiscuss how important physical activityis to our health, or try the activities onour ‘Being Healthy’ Suss It Out sheet22 nd Earth DayMay4 th Bank HolidayThank you for supporting our workSustrans’ vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and theenvironment, and this applies to children just as much as it does to adults. The positive experiences of allthe children that you have read about in this newsletter are the culmination of more than 19 years of Sustransand our officers working with schools, colleges and young people.Without your support, many children would not have the opportunity to enjoy independent and active journeys inand around their communities, so a huge thank you from us on their behalf. The long-term benefits ofcreating healthy and sustainable journeys will be shared by every one of us – in terms of our health, theenvironment and the wider economy.If you like the sound of what Sustrans does and think that more schools, colleges and young people in your areacould benefit from our work, or you want to know more, please get in touch.email youngpeople@sustrans.org.ukphone 0117 915 0100online www.sustrans.org.ukSustrans is grateful for the continued support of our schools work in Perth and Kinross from thefollowing:Perth and Kinross Sustrans I Bike newsletter, Winter-Spring 2014-15