Taking Care of the Planet

Cycling is a fabulous way to look after the environment and bikes are a truly wonderful invention: a planet-friendly mode of transport that is fun to use, makes us fitter, frees our minds and is relatively cheap to buy and maintain. What’s not to like!

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Buy British

We’re proud to buy British whenever we can and are lucky enough to be located within the ‘golden triangle’ of UK bike manufacturing: some of our favourite brands like Orange, Hope, Pendle, Weldtite and Lusso all have design/production facilities nearby. Some are so close that we’ll sometimes go and fetch emergency orders from the factory if we need to!

Go Green

If you’re a cyclist then it’s actually pretty easy being green. The Blazing Saddles staff all commute by bike whenever possible and we keep an eye out for environmentally friendly alternatives to existing products, switching over where performance equals or betters less environmentally sound options (eg. we’ve just started stocking biodegradable, UK-manufactured Green Oil alongside our other cleaning products).


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Recycle

As much of our waste is re-used as possible: for example, the bubble wrap, zip ties and rubber bands which arrive on every new bike are carefully sorted for hoarding in the workshop. Anything we can’t find an alternative purpose for is recycled: everything from scrap metal and dead inner tubes to the copious amount of tea bags and coffee grounds we consume daily is dispatched to start a new life as something else. We use sturdy, re-usable paper bags to wrap your purchases and have a battery deposit point in store for customer use, too.

Recycle Your Cycle

We also support Happy days Cycles, a social enterprise in Sowerby Bridge, who take donated bikes. fix them and sell them, with all profits going to help homeless people in West Yorkshire.

https://www.visitcalderdale.com/happydays-cycles