Bicycle center
Foto: Helsinki City Transport
Helsinki City Transport’s Bicycle Centre at the Narinkka Square in Kamppi is open again, assisting and advicing cyclists over the summer season and in the autumn to the end of October. The doors are open from Monday to Saturday, 10–18.
The core activities of the centre include hands-on advice in bicycle maintenance and small-scale instant repairs. The staff helps and advices customers with the use of Helsinki’s new city bikeshare system and with other cycling-related matters from journey selection to traffic rules. The centre, built into shipping containers, resembles a public bulletin board, and it serves as a meeting place for cyclists and others.
Customers can service their bicycles by themselves with the help of guidance from the mechanic on hand. In fact, one of the main functions of the Bicycle Centre is to give citizens facilities, tools and guidance in bicycle maintenance and so to encourage citizens to take initiative and to learn new skills.
The local shoe repair shop Metrosuutari at the Kamppi Center lends cyclists basic tools for bicycle repair also outside the Bicycle Centre service hours. The shoe repair shop is open Monday–Friday 7–21, Saturday 10–18 and Sunday 12–18.
Cycling-related events can be organized at the Bicycle Centre’s shipping containers free of charge. The centre can provide event organizers with sound equipment, electricity and the use of two containers, one of which serves as a stage. Events organized at the containers need no event permits.
Contact the Bicycle Centre by phone at +358 40 081 7082 or by email at info@pyorakeskus.info. The centre’s website is at www.pyorakeskus.info.
The Bicycle Centre is organized and maintained jointly by the City of Helsinki and entrepreneurs. The centre maintenance is managed by Helsinki City Transport in cooperation with Velobia Bike Company. The centre is one of the projects by which the City of Helsinki promotes cycling.
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Text: Helsinki city / news
