All-Ages Accessible Rides

Anyone living with disability or health need can book this service

ALL booking for this service really is online ONLY. This is how, as a very small charity, we can enable rides. With tight resources, constantly fundraising, we run two services in parallel, year-round.

All info and FAQ for booking your ‘All-Ages Ride’ is given step-by-step below.

It is 5-10 mins of reading/booking in your first time [then just a minute to book in future).

Note: Our separate 'Elder Care Rides' serves several care homes, on a busy set weekly schedule.We maintain a crew of 40+ volunteers who pilot this service. We do not supply any pilots to the All-Ages Service, as the needs are more complex and we have very limited resources as a super-small charity. Email us to request an elder care home that might like to join this ride schedule. We only operate from elder care homes in Brighton and Hove.

Before your first booking - good to know…

• No one-off rides or trike loans/hire. Cannot resource these as a very small charity. Please note we cannot provide refunds.

• Who are the trikes suitable for: Anyone with any disability who is able to sit. We have 5-point harnesses, arm rests and a range of adaptations. Tandem options are for people who can pedal some or all of the time. If you can stand - then we likely have the ‘pedal-assit’ options and strap-in foot/leg adaptions that can indeed enable you to pedal. There are various pedal-pressure options. The other ‘sit-up-front’ option is best for people who would not be able to pedal. Age 8+ tandem. Age 4+ Trishaw trikes. Email us if unsure which trike to choose. People generally suprised positively at who can use the pedals!
  

• You must bring your own person with you to be trained to pilot your trike. Carer/family/friend, they just need to be over 21 years old. We cannot provide a pilot for you. We train you, no cycle experience required but already able to ride a bike and/or can drive advantageous. We train 1 Carer-Pilot per participant. Choose someone able to pilot regularly. If you then ride weekly, we can train another, so option to ride when one Carer-Pilot not available. Training should ONLY be booked once you are SURE you have someone who can regularly be your pilot.

• We do NOT offer ‘test rides’. Training someone to pilot the trike for a participant is a large investment of our very small charity resources. If you are unsure - please email us and we will be glad to reply or arrange a call with you. 95% of people who come to ride are both able and keen to continue to. Participants need only to be able to sit (we do have 5-point harnesses to assist with that also).

• BOTH potential Carer-Pilot and participant attend training ride together. Our staff cycle-trainer is alongside you the whole first ride.  Training requires the whole first ride session.

• Rides go from our seafront base, eastern end of Madeira Drive, next to Black Rock Car Park/Marina, Brighton. Instructions/directions will arrive with your booking email notification.

• Ride duration: Up to 90 minutes, including on/off-boarding. Can use as much of ride slot as you want.

• Swivel out seat for easy transfers. Foot straps/shoe enclosing pedals/leg-align supports on all tandem trikes. Suitable for wide range of abilities e.g. post stroke/loss of mobility/limited movement. Pedal/non-pedal/part-time pedal-assistive options. Suitable for very complex needs.

• Moible hoist. Max weight: 120kg. We supply 1 hoist trained staff to work with you or 2 staff on request.

• Care/residential/organisation?  Weekly recurring slots available on our All-Ages service. No weekly booking admin for you as we book it all in. Email: hello@pedalpeople.org.uk to enquire.

• Rides operate Mon-Weds, year-round including plenty of school holidays too.

• STRICT safety trike manufacturer weight-limit per person: Side-by-side tandem: 120Kg/18.5 stone. Trishaw trike (participant non-pedalling) 160Kg/25st max total front cab load. So if a participant is over 120Kg they need to sit solo on front of this trike. You MUST checkon scales ahead of booking. We reserve the right to request a weigh in at our base if in doubt for safe and insured ride operation.

• Low or no-cost. Ride donation is just 25% of real cost to the charity per ride. We fundraise (constantly) to cover the remaining 75% cost of every ride.  

  Exemptions:

  • Under 18yrs participant where neither responsible parent is in paid work [and so no child support payable to majority carer if there is one] and both parents on universal credit.

  • Over 18yrs patricipant living with family and their main carers are in low-paid work and unable to meet the basic living costs.

  • Over 18yrs participant themself receiving universal Credit and participant is living independently (not with relatives or in state-funded residential).

    Meet exemption criteria? Please email: hello@pedalpeople.org.uk to book

• School-holiday-only booker? Email us. We train Carer-Pilots ahead of school holidays so you are ready to roll as have just a few weeks a year to access us. 

  NEXT STEP to book:

  READ important info and FAQ here - do not skip this click and read!

Please note, ride bookings and emails will be responded to between Monday-Wednesday

Ok now you are ready to book…

On the next page you will need to select:

1) All-Ages Rides

2) Trike type (pedalling or non-pedal options)

3) FIRST TIME compulsory training

NOW scroll to foot of this page to click BOOK NOW button.

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Repeat booker? All your details from previous booking are saved in your login profile.

Login and select type of cycle you have been trained to use to make a booking for it again.

To cancel/move your booking (possible up to 24 hours ahead) login and select ‘My Bookings’ / booking you want to alter and click cancel and then selectEDIT and you will see all date options to move that ride to.

You can make a recurring booking to secure your favoured slot.

You can make a recurring booking to secure your favoured slot. MAX 6 weeks recurring bookings in one booking set, to enable all to access.

Not got your regular EMAIL ride reminder notification the day before? DO CHECK you have made your next set of bookings! As no reminder notification means there is no ride booked.