Never be ‘2-tyred’ for Bike Week

Bicycle enthusiasts in Cork are invited to saddle up for this year’s national celebration of all things cycling, starting this weekend.

Bike Week 2023 runs (or rolls) from 13-21 May and will see close to one hundred events taking place in Cork city to suit every kind of cyclist.

Events will include leisure cycles, come and try sessions, bike maintenance workshops, online workshops, podcasts, challenges, competitions, and scenic cycles. All events will be held publicly, in schools, workplaces, within disability services, youth groups, and across communities.

Standout events include a women’s leisure cycle to Tramore Valley Park for a free Zumba session; Down the Line with a 99, a scenic cycle on the new Blackrock to Passage greenway on 17 May; and the Bike Week Lunchtime Cycle, where there will be free lunches, games, and music.

Bike Week is an annual celebration and promotion of the benefits of cycling with events taking place across the country, including family events, heritage cycles, maintenance workshops and learn to cycle events.

Bike Week Cork is organised by the National Transport Authority and Cork City Council and Cork Sports Partnership.

Frank Fitzgerald, Sustainable Travel Officer, Cork City Council, said: “Cycling is a fun, healthy, quick, and with the new infrastructure, increasingly safe way to travel.

“Each year we are seeing a bigger and bigger Bike Week in Cork city, which indicates the growth of cycling in the city.”

All 31 local authority areas in the country are involved in Bike Week with events being organised jointly through the local authorities and local sports partnerships.

For more information or to book for events taking place in Cork city, visit corkbikeweek.ie.

Those taking part in Bike Week are encouraged to share photos or videos to social media using #BikeWeek and tagging their local authority and Transport for Ireland @TFIUpdates.