Pedal Into Action In Aid Of Bike Week This June At Center Parcs

Released on: May 17, 2010, 1:01 pm
Author: Center Parcs
Industry: Travel

In the lead up to Bike Week, 19 – 27 June, the nation is gearing up to get back on its bike. A Center Parcs short break provides the perfect opportunity to get involved and show your commitment to working towards a greener and healthier lifestyle.

Bike week is an annual week to promote the benefits of cycling and encourage Britain to get on their bikes. Events take place across the UK for people to join in, such as charity fundraising rides, shorter road rides, cycle skills training clinics, and cycle fairs.

The four Center Parcs villages are set in idyllic forest settings, perfect for a Bike Week holiday – each village has a vast network of cycle paths and bike parks – ideal for the whole family to explore, with over 400 acres of beautiful woodland.

Cycling is central to Center Parcs breaks as the best way of getting around during your stay. Center Parcs has one of the largest selections of specialist bikes, from Trailers, Tagalongs, Trikes and Tandems, the whole family can get involved. Giving guests the opportunity to join in together and benefit from fun and exercise in a beautiful and safe woodland setting.

Each village is host to a huge fleet of over 3000 bikes and guests are looked after by experienced teams at the Cycle Centre, where they cover off everything from repairing to hiring and maintenance.

• Each village hires out over 200,000 bikes a year, over four villages this accounts for a staggering 800,000 bikes!
• Did you know that at Sherwood Forest there is a total of 12,000 meters of brake cable to keep oiled, amazingly if stretched end to end this would reach higher than Mount Everest
• 500 hours a week are spent repairing, maintaining, building and hiring out our bikes and over a year our teams will repair:
- 10,000 brake blocks
- 4,000 tyres and inner tubes
- 3 miles of inner and outer brake cable

Guests can get back on their bikes at one of the four villages during Bike Week or throughout the year for midweek or weekend breaks.

For press information please contact Halpern:

Alex Dehnert at Halpern – 020 7349 2513 / alex@halpern.co.uk
Suzanna Williams at Halpern – 020 7349 2483 / suzanna@halpern.co.uk
http://www.centerparcs.co.uk/