Mon 19th – Tues 27th

If you’re all about two wheels but want to keep your arse in your trousers (see page 50) then get involved in Bike Week 2010. Haul your saddlebags down to Bicycle Alley in Preston Park on Mon 19th, a day of challenges and sweet bike skills. The Bike Doctor will give yours a free MOT if it needs it, too.

Elsewhere there are free breakfasts with live music, including Alistair from Sons Of Noel And Adrian and the Hornblower Brothers, for people cycling to work on Tues 22nd at the Loving Hut Café near the level, Thurs 24th at Brighton Station and Fri 25th at the Meeting Place café on Hove seafront. At Changing Gear on Sat 26th outside St Peter’s Church, again with live music and Bike Doctor, you can get photographed in fancy dress sitting on your bike, and you could end up in the Brighton Photo Fringe.

Sun 27th sees the Duke Of York’s throwing a free screening of Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fete – fittingly a film about a nuts French postman on his bike. See the film, get free bikey stuff and visit the ever-present Bike Doctor again. It’s all enough to make you blow your tubes.

WORDS BY NICK COQUET