Cycle Training Wales

Where else but at Dr. Bike can you get your bike fixed for free!
When I cycled up one sunny summers eve to see what all the buzz was about, there was an enthusiastic cluster of boys clutching sorry bikes for the Dr to fix. These ailments included flat tires, brakes that didn’t work and some very poorly ones that had just been pulled out of the brambles of back gardens.
The Doctor aka Andrew Burns, with his mate Nick Canham of Cycle Training Wales, set up the enterprise several years ago to help locals maintain their bikes and therefore encourage more safe cycling.
Russell Howells (Andrew’s glamourous assistant) told me that young kids of four or five to adults and sometimes grandparents bring their bikes to be fixed here.
Dr.Bike operates out of two bight graffiti-​clad shipping containers in the carpark of the Bute Town pavilion. The service is primarily aimed at residents of Butetown and Grangetown and is open 6 – 8 Thursday’s Summer months only (they don’t have the natural light they need to keep it going throughout Winter).
Apparently there is another venue that hosts Dr. Bike (which I didn’t visit) open between 2 – 4 at Spencer Gardens, Grangetown.