A small insight to the work of work of Freewheelers EVS. Please excuse the blood shot eyes, this was filmed in the summer and my hay-fever decided to make an appearance
Great film. Its really inspiring. Im working hard with the end goal of joining the blood bikes. Im from bridgwater so i guess ill be on a bike just like yours 😁😁😁
You guy’s do a fantastic job without you the System would collapse ,when I retire from my job in 3 years I’m going to look into doing the same thing carry on your great work 💪🇬🇧👍👍
Hi Ben. With regards to the blue light runs, if (god forbid) u had to do one, what happens with traffic and speed exemptions cause under law if the hospital classifies it as a medical emergency warranting blue lights then you are able to go through red lights etc? Is it just a yeovil blood biker thing where you can’t or how does that work exactly?
Hello Ben, just came across your video and enjoyed it very much! It was an interesting in-site into a shift as a Blood Biker, and a much longer and busier than I would have thought. Thank you, and all your colleagues for giving up your time 👍 I wonder if you could give me any information about the hi vis jacket you are wearing in the video. It looks like a mesh finish? I want to get something like it, with good reflective strips, to wear over my jacket - minus the reference to ‘BLOOD’ of course, I don’t want to be arrested for impersonating a Blood Biker! If you could give me any information you have, name on any labels for example, or the contact of the person that sources them for the Freewheelers it would be much appreciated Keep up the good work 😊
Hi, just came across your channel, nice insight of the job. Seems to be long split shifts there ,think it would be more enjoyable if you could share it out a bit... blood biker bloodshot eye biker more like..😏. Keep it up good citizen.
That bloodshot eyes were induced by a whack of hay-fever that weekend and too much rubbing of the eye. I'll admit that this was one of the busiest shifts I have ever completed though however still very enjoyable.
Depends on the local blood bike group to your area, our particular charity does fri night through till Monday morning or weekday evening shift monday-thur
The locations are in the sat nav. However once you've been to then a couple of times you remember where they are. Also hospitals are quite well signposted inside aswell and there's always a friendly member of staff around to ask if your unsure
You join the charity as a rider. And depending on which charity depends how it works. Some have a base where you go collect the bike from for your shift and return it at the end of shift. For us we have 2 bikes per patch/duty so in total there are 8 duty bikes. Four are weeknight bikes the other 4 weekend bikes. So they live with the duty rider for the duration of their shift before handing it onto the next weekday/weekend rider
Not often at all. Maybe once or twice a year and that's only if we really have to. We don't have speed or traffic exemptions so only help with trying to make progress in town. However as advanced riders we do that naturally anyway
