http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Wot no Bike Breakfast thread? en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:57:05 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191351 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:09:35 +0000 gembo 191351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was in Dublin but did hear it was more low key </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191350 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:06:00 +0000 tarmac jockey 191350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought it very quiet this year. </p> <p>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/revstar/18274989524/in/dateposted-public/] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191268 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:24:00 +0000 wee folding bike 191268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got to the Glasgow one two years ago because I was going to a course in the west end.</p> <p>Still not used anything from that course. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191267 Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:33:20 +0000 Instography 191267@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was worth the detour to have a sausage, catch up with people I've not seen for a while (or ever, in the case of Arellcat) and dodge the speeches. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191265 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 23:15:34 +0000 Snowy 191265@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Passed me by completely. Shame as I would have worked in town today if I'd known. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191227 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:46:51 +0000 Billytheshoe 191227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Told my boss that I was at a breakfast transport seminar this morning. So the 30 miles I'll be claiming at 20p a mile will keep me in breakfast for the rest of the week. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191210 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:58:59 +0000 crowriver 191210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Missed it completely. Probably because I'm living elsewhere temporarily and have not received Spokes leaflet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191203 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:41:58 +0000 jdanielp 191203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Despite living in the city centre I have yet to make it to a bike breakfast at the City Chambers due to a lack of knowledge for the first couple of years of my cycling renaissance, and then a combination of running late or being on the wrong side of town (i.e. planning failures on my part) in the more recent years. Maybe next year...</p> <p>There's a bike breakfast at the Bike Bothy on the campus at Heriot-Watt University on Thursday 25th, 07:45-10:00. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191202 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:39:50 +0000 LaidBack 191202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alpine - that's not a smart PR move in my view. </p> <p>In the (Tiso) past they sponsored the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191199 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:38:13 +0000 Arellcat 191199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Simple answer is that this (perhaps) isn't about feeding random 'new cyclists'.</em></p> <p>I've always felt that the BB was as much a reward for people who cycle already. But I do like to listen to the speeches. Lesley Hinds was visibly enthusiastic about having been on her bike a few times, and talked about being free to decide when to cycle and when to walk or take the bus.</p> <p>The City Chambers isn't remotely on my own commute unless I'm en route to a meeting likely arranged by someone not planning to attend the BB! I passed the Alpine Bikes pop-up stand and assumed, on account of my great speed, that they were just doing a Dr Bike kind of thing and trying to muscle in on Greasemonkey's patch.</p> <p>Also said hello to DaveC, Dave, Morningsider, Kim &amp; Ulli, spotted Suzanne Forup, and remarked quietly to myself that all the people from Edinburgh Bicycle seem to be younger than ever. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191186 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:44:54 +0000 chdot 191186@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"or have mini-breakfasts on some of the busier bike commuting routes around Edinburgh?"</p> <p>Well...</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/uLJovw"><img src="https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3888/18884185752_f5473cac0d.jpg"></a></p> <p>Passed this on the way to the 'proper' Bike Breakfast. </p> <p>Was hailed and offered "Starbucks' coffee" (close to PY too!) person seemed unaware that this was same day as Spokes one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191183 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:32:34 +0000 chdot 191183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Why don't they either move the location every year"</p> <p>Simple answer is that this (perhaps) isn't about feeding random 'new cyclists'. The 'council supports cyclists' and 'chance to talk to politicians' elements are intentionally important. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191182 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:31:46 +0000 wingpig 191182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wilmington has organised a few informal breakfasts on the wee lump beside the road at the start of the downslope on the hill in previous years. A few years ago there was a suggestion for Bike Week to have breakfastlets in a few key places to show people passing in enclosed vehicles how nice it can be to be able to jump off and consume foodstuffs without the whole find-a-parking-space thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191179 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:26:07 +0000 threefromleith 191179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was talking about this on Twitter with Wilmington's Cow this morning. Why don't they either move the location every year to a different bike commuting 'hotspot', or have mini-breakfasts on some of the busier bike commuting routes around Edinburgh? It's currently restricting itself to those who pass by on their route, or make the effort to divert and/or who struggle up the 'ruddy big hill' that must be climbed from three directions to get there!</p> <p>(There used to be a 'Cycle to Work Day' breakfast at the Ritz in Edinburgh Park during Bike to Work Week, but that stopped a few years ago. I never even made it there either, as it didn't open until an hour after I'd arrived at work - and I'd have had to get my freshly-showered self back into my sweaty cycling kit and wheel my bike across to prove I'd cycled in order to get the free nosh!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191175 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:48:18 +0000 Stickman 191175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot: </p> <p>Thanks - I'll maybe come to the next one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191174 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:46:05 +0000 chdot 191174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Spokes CycleCampaign (@SpokesLothian)<br /> 17/06/2015 12:38<br /> We had 100 tweet notifications re great #bikebreakfast today :) Hashtag next year! twitter.com/SustransScot/s… @CyclingEdin @AndrewDBurns @edfoc</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191172 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:43:05 +0000 chdot 191172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'm still not entirely clear what the Bike Breakfast even is"</p> <p>Different thinks to different people!</p> <p>Free Spokes map if you get there early enough. </p> <p>Free breakfast of a bacon/sausage/scrambled egg roll, juice, tea/coffee sort. </p> <p>Chance to meet your associates</p> <p>Opportunity for politicians to praise themselves </p> <p>Info stalls (some) with prizes</p> <p>Dr. bike</p> <p>Police bike marking </p> <p>Chance to network/lobby </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191170 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:31:27 +0000 Stickman 191170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm still not entirely clear what the Bike Breakfast even <em>is.</em></p> <p>(To be honest, finding out anything on the Spokes website is infuriating. Come on guys, web site design has moved on since 1996!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191168 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:19:51 +0000 chdot 191168@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That said, it's an annual event which pre-dates Twitter and EdFoC. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191167 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:19:37 +0000 DaveC 191167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I dip in and out of Twitter as I found I was becoming a slave to it. Its instantanious and you can miss stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191166 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:18:18 +0000 chdot 191166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's one of those things where 'everyone assumes' there is a thread!</p> <p>I kinda blame Twitter - or at least the fact that it's easy to assume people read CCE <em>and</em> Twitter - which is SO not true!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191159 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:48:23 +0000 earthowned 191159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Likewise - I rode past the BB at about 8.30ish this morning and didn't even notice! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191151 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:17:48 +0000 kaputnik 191151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have to admit that without a thread here and not paying a huge amount of attention to Twitter these days I was completely ignorant of the BB. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191144 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:05:22 +0000 condor2378 191144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was there with Child no 2 in the bike seat. Saw the Red Torpedo but met up with a friend not of this parish so didn't introduce myself. Seemed fairly busy by the time I had to head off at 8:30 though? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14988#post-191143 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:45:52 +0000 DaveC 191143@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spotted/Bike Breakfast/EdFoC thread (I can't believe we don't have one - bit late now)</p> <p>I tried to chivy on a few cyclists I saw on the train in, but they knew nothing about it.</p> <p>Turned up to a poor performance as the weather had cared a few off, it would appear? Saw Dave, Tractor factory, Instographic, Morningsider, Arellcat and a fwe others I know who don't frequent this parish. Buttie eaten and limp speaches said we sloped off at 8:45. Hope summer arrives eventually :O( </p>