BBC 英语学习 新闻词汇 Recycling bikes for health workers

Resurrected and carefully disinfected. Hi. This is the bike.

An old bike finds a new owner.

Laura works for the NHS at the Royal shrews be Hospital.

They'll probably cycle to work if it's nice weather and I've got enough time.

And it's good for mental health and people, it's good it means that I can get out relax a little bit more.

I think it's such a lovely thing they're doing.

It's such an amazing thing. This charity was launched last year with the ambition of increasing cycling in Shropshire.

Since lockdown began, they've been flooded with 2nd hand bikes.

They've refurbished and given away 33 Some of these NHS workers are finding it difficult to actually get to work with trouble with public transport, so we're helping them.

This fits us. It fits the NHS requirements, and it helps combat this crisis.

Mick helps run a cycle club in Birmingham in his back garden.

In his spare time, he too has been breathing new life into old rides, helping those on the front line.

There was a couple last week.

Both were husband and wife that worked at a Solio hospital.

And it was just amazing to be able to give them a boy each, to take them up there and see them ride enough on it.

And and then now being able to to cycle to work, as I was getting the boss, it's just, it's a great feeling.

It really is a great feeling In lockdown, in places, more of us seem to be swapping four wheels for two The campaign group funding this project and nine others in Birmingham, in the Black Country, is urging us to keep on peddling once lockdowns lifted.

Volunteers say these schemes will carry on for as long as they are needed.

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