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Video of the animations created in our May Cyclotrope Alleycat has now been posted online. Our next Alleycat is on June 24th
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Video of the animations made during this Alleycat has been posted!
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So it's the first of three Alleycats on May 27th, and the start of The Summer Alleycat Series with £150 tool kit, course places at OCWT and other exciting stuff up for grabs.
The first Alleycat in the series is The Cyclotrope Alleycat (with special thanks to Tim Wheatley for letting us play with his beautiful animation idea)
We're going to get you making animations on the interactive checkpoints and at the party at the finish.
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Pictures of Oxford's Tweed ride are online here
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Another rough and tumble Cycle Speedway fixture up at Horspath just outside Oxford:
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Horspath's second premier league fixture this last weekend against Sheffield.
Yet another crazy exhibition of bike skills and crashes, especially heat 14 ![ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwX_0uNsbQ"]YouTube
- Cycle Speedway 2011 - Horspath Vs Sheffield[/ame]Next premier league fixture is on May 8th against Poole, but you can go give it a try on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings.
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The Cycle Oxford Festival is back, with some firsts for anyone with a bicycle in Oxford.
Facebook event to be found here.
This years festival brings you Oxford's first ever Tweed Ride on the Sunday. Offering the opportunity to come dressed in your finest, and amble around the older parts of our beautiful city and stop off for the occasional scone.
We'll also be one of 6 UK cities running a Papergirl Ride this spring.
Oxford's ride will take place on the Saturday and the ride is a celebration of art, bicycles and the act of giving. With the help of artisjustaword, Oxford's artists large and small will be donating simple paper works of art, which will be exhibited the during the festival week, and then handed out randomly to the public on the ride.Also not to be missed will be the Guerilla Gardening Alleycat. Come dressed as a gorilla and go in search of some green fingered interactive checkpoints.
On the Thursday will also be the opportunity to give Grass Track cycling and Bike Polo a try as we launch in partnership with Cherwell School, regular weekly sessions. Bikes and equipment will be provided, and May 5th is all about giving it a try.
We look forward to seeing you during this action packed week!
Just in case you haven't see it, here's the video of the 2009 festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_kIGaxIYGQ
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It was the first premier league fixture up at Horspath last weekend.
Check out this action! Flippin awesome skills, and lots for crashes and shoulder to shoulder racing:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkS6JTxeNhg
Next premier league fixture is on May 8th against Poole, but you can go give it a try on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings.
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The 2011 season kicked off last weekend.
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Next Oxford Alleycat is The 2011 Dance Attack Alleycat on April 29th !!!!
Facebook event is here.
Bring both your cycling legs and your dancing legs because we're going to send you out into our beautiful city in search of checkpoints where we're going to get you to freestyle dance attack.
There will be prizes for the best fancy dress, especially for MC Hammer style dancing trousers!
The Dance Attack Alleycat was first run in May 2009 to much success. You can see footage of the 2009 ride in The Cycle Oxford Festival video
.Also just posted our video of the first ever Scrabble on Bicycles event:
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Next Oxford Alleycat is The 2011 Dance Attack Alleycat on April 29th !!!!
Facebook event is here.Bring both your cycling legs and your dancing legs because we're going to send you out into our beautiful city in search of checkpoints where we're going to get you to freestyle dance attack.
There will be prizes for the best fancy dress, especially for MC Hammer style dancing trousers!
The Dance Attack Alleycat was first run in May 2009 to much success. You can see footage of the 2009 ride in The Cycle Oxford Festival video
.Also just posted our video of the first ever Scrabble on Bicycles event:
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Sounds crazy, but we've tried it in Oxford and it really works!
YouTube - Scrabble on Bicycles
Anyone in London willing to give it a try?
Oxford's next event is March 20th, but it's got to work just as well in other cities.You get an hour to find as many of the 30 Scrabble tiles we've hidden around our beautiful city. Collect all 30 or just 7, it doesn't matter because on arriving at the Scrabble board you have to select 7 tiles to enter the game with.
You don't get to refresh any tiles laid on the board, 7 tiles is it. You're only allowed one of each letter, and there's no bonus for laying 7 tiles at once. The highest score wins.
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YouTube - Fastest Mechanic Competition 2011
So here's the Challenge, how fast can you change an inner tube? The wheel is out of the bike, and the starting and finishing tyre preasure needs to be 40PSI. It's that easy.
Last year the winner did it in a time of 1 minute 35.48 seconds, and the slowest person did it in around 9 minutes, and everyone had fun.
Post a time by sending us a video or coming to one of Cycle Oxford's events in 2011.
A full events guide is available here.
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Hey folks, just published our Spring Events Guide with events up to the end of May.
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Hey folk,
Here's a link to our just published Cycle Oxford Spring Events Guide
The next Alleycat is on February 25th - The "So You Wanna Be A Rockstar" Alleycat
More information soon...Be great to see you here
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Up coming Oxford events from Cycle Oxford:
Life Cycle Exhibition at Oxford Cycle Workshop's old shop space.
Private view is January 20th from 7pm until 9pm (don't worry it won't be all arty)
Art Attack Alleycat starting at the Exhibition on January 28th at 6.30pm.
We'll give you a boiler suit and then you have to go in search of artists and materials to decorate yourself:
February's Alleycat sneak preview will be "So You Wanna Be A Rock Star" Alleycat, ending at The Bookbinders in East Oxford for a battle of the bands on Feb 25th... but shhhh it's still a secret.
Oh and there's a Hub Gear Course on Jan 29th.
Video's in the can and being edited right now include Horspath Cycle Speedway 2010 shake down and Bicycle Scrabble (first ever). They'll be up on Vimeo soooooooon.
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If you want to learn how to maintain it yourself there is a course in Oxford on January 29th: http://s.coop/7hp
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Apprentice Alleycat on Saturday 27th November (tomorrow), starting at Oxford Cycle Workshop on Magdalen Road at 4pm. More info here
Sneaky Peek of some of what's involved below:
If you'd like a badge email dan@ocwt.coop and he'll send you one.
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Pics of last Friday's Oxford Halloween Alleycat costumes are up: http://s.coop/4tn
Enjoy!!
Next Oxford Alleycat will be The Apprentice Alleycat on Saturday November 27th 2010, starting at 4pm on Broad Street
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Pics of this year's Oxford Halloween Alleycat costumes are up: http://s.coop/4tn
Enjoy!!
Next Oxford Alleycat will be The Apprentice Alleycat on Saturday November 27th 2010, starting at 4pm on Broad Street
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Oxford's Halloween Alleycat has a theme now...
The Monster Mash Alleycat
It all takes place on October 29th, meeting at 6.30pm on Broad Street
We've brewed up a weird promo video for it:Halloween Bike Ride Promo Video on Vimeo
Eight interactive ghoulish checkpoints will be hidden around the city for you to find, as you explore your way to the party that awaits you at the end where we'll be serving Monster Mashed baked potato and Halloween soup.
Prizes for the best costumes have been donated by Cyclodelic: http://www.cyclodelic.co.uk/
Facebook event: http://s.coop/3y2
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Oxford's Halloween Alleycat is on October 29th, meeting at 6.30pm on Broad Street
We've brewed up a weird promo video for it:Halloween Bike Ride Promo Video on Vimeo
Eight interactive ghoulish checkpoints will be hidden around the city for you to find, as you explore your way to the party that awaits you at the end where we'll be serving Monster Mashed baked potato and Halloween soup.
Prizes for the best costumes have been donated by Cyclodelic: http://www.cyclodelic.co.uk/
Facebook event: http://s.coop/3y2
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May Alleycat in Oxford had an Animation theme using Tim Wheatley's Cyclotrope idea.
Here's the animations that got created during the ride on Friday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWndAGBPFYk