About Us
Sean Lally
Director
City & Guilds Qualified Cycle Mechanic
CTC Accredited Cycle Instructor
In 2002, Sean trained as a City & Guilds qualified cycle mechanic and since then has worked in a range of bike shops, gathering mechanical expertise and experience with a huge variety of bikes, from the recycling and community venture Oxford Cycle Workshop to the renowned Condor Cycles in central London. Sean is also a CTC accredited cycle instructor and has taught classes of all ages and cycling abilities. During his time in Oxford, Sean was involved with the hugely successful Bike Doctor project – a high quality, mobile cycle repair service which travelled (by bike, of course) to companies and organisations within the city.
The service proved to be so successful and essential to cycling employees that, in 2007, Sean decided to help promote the current cycling boom in London by moving The Bike Doctor initiative to the capital in the form of Cycle Systems Ltd. Since those early days, the services offered by Cycle Systems have expanded and improved in step with our clients’ needs, and Sean is enjoying the challenge of being director of the company, along with working to improve and promote cycling within the city. Sean has been appointed a non-executive director of the cycle share system, Citybyke, and has most recently taken a lead role in the LCC “Star Alliance” initiative, designed to bring the best of brand of the cycling world into the corporate sector.
Julia Lally
Director
Julia Lally has worked in two main fields of employment during the past two decades: running a small, self-employed business in health education; and working in the arts. Julia qualified from the Buteyko Institute of Breathing and Health in 2001, after which she ran a successful small business teaching the breathing technique, the Buteyko Method, to clients in the south-west and south-east to help them improve symptoms of respiratory disease and anxiety. A highlight of Julia’s Buteyko career was being asked to be a part of the BIBH training programme which visited a special school for asthmatics in Havana, Cuba. Please visit www.buteyko.info for more information.
Julia has also written a novel, recorded an album of her own music, and written and directed two plays since training in Theatre and English. However, she decided to put aside her pursuit of an arts career in order to concentrate on running Cycle Systems instead. As a result of this decision, Julia committed to moving to London with her husband and business partner, Sean, to build Cycle Systems. Julia has a lifelong adoration of the City, and is very excited to be participating in the greening of London through the promotion of cycle and cycle-based transport strategy.