Awards

The Cyclehoop is a simple and elegant solution to cycle parking in cities and was the winning design in the Street Furniture category of the Reinventing the Bike Shed Design Competition 2006.

Designed by architect Anthony Lau, the product was launched in London in 2008 and has since been adopted over 40 councils across the UK. Cyclehoop Ltd has gone from stength to strength and has won many awards including:

• Selected in the Young Guns 2010 UK Entrepreneur awards
• Nominated for ‘Product of the Year’ at the Growing Business Awards 2009
• Winner of ‘The Pitch 2009′ – Britain’s Best Business
• New York Cityracks International Design Competition – Winning design for Google’s cycle parking facility
• HSBC Unipreneur awards – Regional finalist
• Reinventing the Bike Shed – winning design with the ‘Cyclehoop’ retrofit bicycle stand
• Westfocus Bright Ideas – Winner

Mission statement

Cycling has an important part to play in making our cities more sustainable. More cycling will lead to less car congestion, reducing air pollution, and improving our street environment.

Our mission is to help local authorities, businesses and homes encourage cycling by increasing bicycle parking infrastructure and tackling bicycle theft, at the same time improving our streets by reducing street clutter through intelligent design.