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Business park's wheelie good scheme

To celebrate National Bike to Work Week this week, Newcastle’s Quorum business park took delivery of its own range of pool bikes.

Quorum’s Commuter Centre has bought three hybrid bikes from The Cycle Centre in Byker with the aim of encouraging employees at the park to cycle at lunch times and for business trips.

To get staff to sign up to the pool bike scheme, Quorum is running a competition with Greens Heath and Fitness Club in Gosforth.

The ‘Greens Challenge’ will see the gym coming onto site with an exercise bike during National Bike to Work Week to see who can cycle the fastest mile. Quorum’s Commuter Centre is also hosting Bikers’ Breakfasts, where staff who cycle to work get a free breakfast while the team from the Cycle Centre give their bikes a free MOT.

Laura Kerry, Quorum Business Park commuter centre manager, said: “The Quorum Commuter Centre encourages staff to adopt sustainable modes of travelling to work and we are celebrating National Bike to Work Week in a number of ways.

“We are lucky enough to be one of the few business parks in the country to have its own pool bike scheme in which staff at the park can borrow the Quorum branded bikes, to travel during their lunch breaks and for business trips.

“The bikes are hybrid in style as they are cross between a road bike and a mountain bike and they have a basket on the front and a pannier bag on the back for people to carry their work files, books or shopping.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .