All-Ages Accessible Rides
Anyone living with disability or health need can book this service.
Note: Our separate 'Elder Care Rides' serves several care homes, on a busy set weekly schedule. We maintain a crew of 42 volunteers who pilot this service. We do not supply any pilots on our 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 to join waitlist. 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. Cannot resource these as a very small charity.
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 highly 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.
BOTH proposed Carer-Pilot and participant attend training ride together. Our cycle-trainer is alongside you the whole of first ride. Training takes place in motion and requires the whole 90 min 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: 90 minutes, including on/off-boarding time. Can attend for 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 + needs e.g. post stroke/loss of mobility/limited movement. Peadl/non-pedal/part-time pedal options. Suitable options 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
Rides operate Mon-Weds, year-round including some 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 check on scales ahead of booking. We reserve the right to request a weigh in at our base if in doubt for safe ride operation.
Low or no-cost. Ride donation is 25% of real cost to the charity per ride. Our fundraising covers the remaining 75% cost. Exemptions: Universal Credit and living independently (not with relatives or in state-funded residential) or neither co-parent is in paid work or unable to meet basic living costs easily. If you meet any 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.
Ok! Ready to book… next page you will need to select:
1) All-Ages Rides
2) Trike type (pedalling or non-pedal options).
3) FIRST TIME compulsory cycle pilot training.
NOW scroll to foot of page to click BOOK NOW button.
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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 or move your booking (you can do this up to 24 hours ahead) login and select ‘My Bookings’ / booking you want to alter and click cancel and then select EDIT 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.