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Bicycle events at the Dukes in April (posted 18 March)
See the Dukes website for further details (www.dukes-lancaster.org).
Thursday 16 April at 6.30 p.m. in the Gallery: Dave Horton – Ride: a journey through cycling
This illustrated talk will take you on a journey through, and into, cycling. In search of cycling’s essence, Dave Horton rode the legendary British cycling journey, from Land’s End to John O’Groats. Along the way, he talked to and rode alongside people with as diverse relationships with cycling as he could find. Whether cycling historians, racers, record-breakers, event organisers, campaigners, bike shop owners or policy-makers, all these people love cycling. Dave’s ride stitches their different stories together, and situates them in his own, and in more sociological reflections on cycling’s past, present and future. His presentation portrays the lives of people for whom cycling is a passion, explores the state of cycling today, and argues for a future cycling vision. Ride: a journey through cycling is a eulogy and a celebration of a practice with the capacity to save us, and the world.
Saturday 18 April at 6.30 p.m. in the Gallery: Pedalling the Pilgrim Way
Last summer Kirstie and Stuart Wickes turned their family into Pedalling Pilgrims for a six week journey along the Camino Frances; one of the ancient routes to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain. Travelling with three children, on two tandems with trailers, their 1400km journey, from Bilbao to the Pyrenees to Santiago and then Finisterre, took them across an extraordinary slice of rural Spain, over mountain and meseta, through hamlets, villages, towns and cities on a journey with a history stretching back over a thousand years. An entertaining hour of stories, music and slides.
Thursday 23 April at 6.00 p.m. in the Gallery: We're all going on a ... cycling holiday
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