Duncan Blinkhorn

Proprietor of Brighton Bike Tours (cycle hire & guided tours) and Coordinator of Brighton Bike Hub CIC - Brighton’s community cycle workshop

Greater Brighton and Hove Area

About

Also a volunteer with the Brighton Bike Hub community cycle workshop and Bike Train group cycling project and supporting community events and green spaces as chair of Friends of William Clarke Park (AKA 'The Patch')

Experience

  • Proprietor at Brighton Bike Tours
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Operations Manager for the Brighton Bike Share scheme at South Coast Bikes
    Aug 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

    Overseeing the maintenance and redistribution of bikes across Brighton & Hove as part of the BTNBikeShare.

  • Co-ordinator at Brighton Bike Hub
    Feb 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 5 mos

    A volunteer-run community cycle workshop providing a supportive environment where anyone can fix their own bike using our tools and equipment with access to affordable new and used parts. Our team of volunteers refurbish donated bikes for resale, proceeds from which are used to support the project. We run occasional tutored bike repair and maintenance sessions and socialble rides. We are working in partnership with the University of Brighton Students Union and FIELD at Preston Barracks.

  • Chairperson at Lewes Road for Clean Air
    Jul 2009 - Present · 17 yrs

    A Community based campaign working to improve air quality and reduce traffic related CO2, NO2, particulate and other emissions along Brighton's Lewes Road corridor. A community partner with Brighton & Hove City Council on the Lewes Road improvement scheme, to promote sustainable transport along the A270, supported by the Department for Transport's Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF). Initiated the Bike Train group-cycling project and the Bike Hub community cycle workshop, now based at Preston Barracks on Lewes Road.

  • Co-ordinator at Bike Train
    Jan 2010 - Present · 16 yrs 6 mos

    Promoting a fun safety-in-numbers approach to cycling by organising group bike rides to events in the Brighton area e.g. rides to events at Stanmer Park, Amex Stadium & Lewes Bonfire Night. We also run occassional rides to local schools and to the universities . As a community partner with B&H City Council we were involved in developng the Lewes Road Improvement Scheme funded through the DfT's Local Sustainable Transport Fund. We were a key partner for the 'Time to Cycle' mass ride from London to Paris COP-21 climate talks in December 2015.