Wallingford Festival of Cycling is a not for profit community cycling event organised by volunteers.
The festival is a celebration of the inclusive world of cycling with a vision for getting more people on their bikes more often. The aim of Wallingford Festival of Cycling is to become an established annual event able to demonstrate increased participation in recreational cycling for all ages and providing a pathway into competitive cycling for teenagers from the Wallingford area. We want to incre
25/08/2019
An update from the team: Bike park built and will be launched in a week. About 200 residents turned up to help and get involved plus a few vicars. Even a drum band to keep us entertained😃. The team stayed an extra day to finish the bike park and also various other house projects. What an experience! Thank you so very much to everyone who donated bike parts😁
23/08/2019
The team are keeping us all in the loop on progress!!
So day 3 here was challenging. Stunning progress in the morning with about 30 youth and hired hands working on the cycle centre and riding tracks.
A little cloud so a bit cooler. Our first bike mechanic workshop went well and after it the little ones loved riding the bikes.
The afternoon went super hot About 2:30 one of the team smashed through a water pipe with a pick axe and we had a 4 m high fountain that was going to flood the site in an hour or so. We plugged the leak as best we could and rapidly built an emergency flood channel to the ditches we had already dug. Water repair man took an hour to sort it and waiting an hour for him to come. Complete nightmare. Anyway we finished the day with more than we had started but the flood took a lot of time and energy to deal with.
16/08/2019
The bikes and equipment have all been loaded up and ready to go!
15/08/2019
And they are off! The Vision team are on their way to Kenya to support the Nasio Trust! Thanks to everyone who donated cycle parts to us they'll be put to good use!
12/08/2019
Wallingford Festival of Cycling and The Old Counting House are supporting setting up a bike repair centre and youth cycling project in rural Western Kenya. If you have any old tubes (punctured or not), pumps, tools, lights and bike parts please can you drop them off to the Old Counting House Monday 12th or Tuesday 13th August between 9 and 5 pm or pm us if you need them picking up.
15/07/2019
Did you take some awesome photos that you'd love to share over the weekend? Perhaps you've got some action shots of the Crit racing?
Share them using the hashtag and we'll share some of them on our instagram and pages to!!
15/07/2019
And so the sun has set on the Wallingford Festival of Cycling for another year! We want to thank all the volunteers, sponsors, riders, racers and local community that came out in force to help us make this years festival the best ever!!
We'd love to see and share all your photos over the next few weeks so please do share them with us!
A final thank you to everyone who has sent us messages of support, thanks and feedback we'll come back to you all as soon as possible!!
14/07/2019
Almost ready to go! Good luck everyone 👏
13/07/2019
The finish line is ready, and Rides on Air will be on stand by tomorrow morning from 7 am onward for last minute bike checks. We are still taking entries for the sportive rides on the day, it’s not too late to enter! See you all in the morning 😃
13/07/2019
Massive thank you to Waitrose & Partners in Wallingford who've supplied all tomorrows sportive riders with Bananas to refuel at the finish line!!!