It’s here again! From Saturday until June 18 all the local cycling groups will be joining forces to offer cycling events all around Oxford to encourage you to get on your bike.

There’s a whole range of activities: you can learn how to fix that broken bike in your garage; join a group ride for beginners if you’re feeling a bit nervous on your own in the city; and there’s long hilly rides for seasoned cyclists who like a challenge.

The week kicks off on Saturday with the Big Green Day Out on Broad Street from 10am. Try different bikes or explore cycle-related art. There will be lots of bike stalls where you can discuss bike-related topics with knowledgeable and friendly people.

If you’ve got any mechanical problems with your bike, and you like tea and biscuits, Broken Spoke Bike Co-op are running supported access sessions at their repair workshop on Pembroke Street on Saturday and several days through the week.

On Sunday it’s the Cowley Road Condors’ Newbies ride – hugely popular last year – for your first friendly foray into group riding.

A traffic-light-free ride is being held on Monday, June 12, by Cyclox. They aim to circumnavigate Oxford along quiet city roads, the canal and river, avoiding any traffic-lighted junctions and using Pelican and Toucan crossings to cross main roads. Apparently this is possible.

On June 13, there’s a women-only wildlife ride led by Isis Cyclists, for beginners looking to get back on a bike and see some countryside. The ride will visit three beautiful wildflower meadows within the city.

June 14 includes one of Bike Week’s popular themed rides: Women in Oxford. It’s a chance to commemorate and celebrate the rich lives of women who have left a mark on Oxford. It’s another ride very suitable for beginners.

There are two rides on June 15 – one during the day around the city looking at cycling infrastructure good and bad; the other in the evening exploring Oxford’s cobbled streets. It’s suitable for beginners but make sure you’ve got a good saddle for that one!

A key theme this year is science and the environment with rides on June 16 to Southill solar farm near Charlbury, and on June 18 to Westmill solar and wind farm.

June 17 events include: at 2pm, a lovely ride down the Thames Valley to Sutton Courtney, mainly on National Cycle Network routes. In the evening there is the all-nighter Dorset Dash, leaving Oxford at 8.30pm, arriving Avon Beach, Christchurch, Dorset, at around 7 the next morning. Remember your cozzie!

Finally, again squeezing outside of Bike Week but returning for the 6th year running is our Solstice dawn ride to Boar’s Hill on June 21, lead by Sustrans’ Rangers. The ride starts at 5.45am followed by the celebratory breakfast finishing by 8, just in time to start work!

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Bike Week is a nationwide celebration of cycling, so there are events happening all over the UK. For more details on these events go to www.bikeweek.org.uk