http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Bike Breakfast - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:09:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6371#post-68357 Wed, 02 May 2012 11:18:07 +0000 lionfish 68357@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As suggested on <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6334" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6334</a></p> <p>These wards are roughly Slateford, Gorgie, Craiglockhart, Dalry, Stenhouse, Shandon, Sighthill, Broomhouse</p> <p>**Just ideas (feel free to change them!)**<br /> After the council elections, we'll contact all our councillors in these two wards next week, to organise a date for a cycle into town. I guess it makes sense to try to emulate a normal 'commute' as far as possible (so from the ward into the town centre.</p> <p>The route?<br /> from ~Gorgie road to the Spokes Bike Breakfast? on 20th June (I think).<br /> <a href="http://g.co/maps/ansnm" rel="nofollow">http://g.co/maps/ansnm</a> (about 3.5 miles, could start further up Gorgie road to shorten route, if necessary).</p> <p>All the other wards should do something similar and we'll all rendezvous at the bike breakfast! That'll give a bit of an incentive for the councillors (the potential for lots of good publicity with the cycle community, and so make them more likely to agree).</p> <p>Need to think of a list of particular "points of interest" - i.e. particular local issues on the route that are of most concern (particular bits of parking on bike lanes, or whatever)</p> <p>What do people think? Which route would you suggest? Should it be done separately for the two wards? Brain storm :)</p> <p>size of ride: I don't know how many of us are in these wards: More would show the councillors how we feel!(ironically lots of us would allow a feeling of safety in numbers and I'd like the councillors to get a taste of solo riding in Edinburgh too :P). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=919#post-8188 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:03:45 +0000 Wendy 8188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Message from Spokes:</p> <p>The excellent annual Spokes Bike Breakfast will be on between 8-10am on 23 June in the City Chamber quadrangle on Edinburgh's High Street.</p> <p>As well as breakfast on your way to work, there will be the biggest ever range of stalls, councillors to lobby, police bike security coding and much more. Transport Convenor Cllr Gordon Mackenzie will give a short speech [probably around 8.45] doubtless mentioning the Cycling Action Plan now being worked up by the Council.</p> <p>The Bike Co-op will be there with a 'Make your own Smoothie' - please note there is a mistake in the forthcoming Spokes Summer Bulletin - the Bike Coop<br /> is bringing the smoothie maker and shop discount vouchers - but not the bike-oiling stated in the Bulletin.</p> <p>The summer Spokes mailout goes out on 12 June and all members should receive the Bulletin and poster copies soon after that. The Bulletin features the need for the city centre to be made more bike friendly - particularly Princes Street and Picardy Place; and it includes the annual funding survey showing the state of cycling investment in Scotland last year 2009/10, and predictions for the current year 2010/11. If the future of Princes St and Picardy Place concern you, read the article in our Bulletin, then take<br /> the opportunity of the Bike Breakfast to put your concerns to the councillors who turn up - just ask around and you'll soon find some!</p> <p>The Spokes Bike Breakfast is part of National Bike Week. For more events, see the NBW national website [which allows you to search for local events]<br /> and the Changing Pace NBW local website. </p>