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23 Apr 2024

This May, join the movement to create safer, more bike-friendly streets with the Bike Month Challenge and #MakeEveryRideCount!

23 Apr 2024

The number of reported e-bike thefts doubled in the space of a year in the UK, with a 103% increase in 2023 compared to 2022, according to a study by Evolve E-bikes. While the...

22 Apr 2024

Small shops have been more "agile" at fighting COVID sale slumps than chain stores, according to a new report.

22 Apr 2024

For the first time in its campaign to help the city address escalating lithium-ion battery fires, the Fire Department of New York filed criminal charges against a Brooklyn e-bike shop owner for...

22 Apr 2024

The managing director of Brompton has backed a campaign to introduce stricter e-bike battery regulations in the UK, amid "too many examples of e-bikes, e-scooters and light electric...

15 Apr 2024

The Rediscovery Centre, the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ireland, today announced its partnership with Cytech, the internationally recognised training and accreditation scheme for...

12 Apr 2024

Just two weeks remain for the UK cycle industry to have its say on the current Government consultation to double the permissible power of e-bikes, and to remove the need for pedalling.

10 Apr 2024

Award-winning cycling business Spokes Bikes has added a new shop in Greenock to existing shop in Bridge of Weir.

9 Apr 2024

Communities across England are to be given access to £101 million of government funding for high-quality walking and cycling routes, improving the quality of local public engagement for...

9 Apr 2024

The founders of a Wirral bike recycling scheme have opened a hub across the River Mersey as part of a campaign to encourage more people into cycling.

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Cytech Fastest Wrench prizes announced

Posted on in Business News , Cycles News

The Cytech Fastest Wrench competition is making a return to the London Bike Show 2019!

Sponsored by Park Tool, Cytech’s Fastest Wrench competition returns once more to the UK's largest cycling exhibition, inviting all visitors to put their bike maintenance skills to the test and compete against the clock.

For those who don’t already know the competition requires entrants to:

  • Remove the front wheel from the bike
  • Take out the inner tube
  • Replace the tube
  • Inflate to 20psi
  • Re-fit wheel to the bike
  • All in the fastest time possible to be crowned this year’s Fastest Wrench!

Step up to the plate and you’ll also be in with a chance to win one of several great prizes including a Park Tool AK-3 Advanced Mechanic Tool Kit, a £400 ATG Training Voucher, a Cytech Home mechanic course and a Cytech theory one course!

The competition is free to enter and open to everyone. Come along to the Cytech Workshop to give it a go as well as meet some of Cytech’s expert mechanics. They’ll be on hand to answer any tech questions you have and will also be delivering a series of demos throughout the day.

Click here for the demo schedule.

The London Bike Show is running from 29-31 March at the ExCeL, London. More information can be found and tickets bought through the London Bike Show website. Don’t forget if you’re a member of the trade you can register for free tickets here.

We'll see you there!

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