http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Spokes Competition - Shopping by Bike en Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:36:08 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21015#post-361741 Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:13:33 +0000 Rosie 361741@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SPOKES COMPETITION – SHOPPING BY BIKE<br /> Closing date – midnight Sunday 4 September</p> <p>Email your entry to <a href="mailto:competition@spokes.org.uk">competition@spokes.org.uk</a></p> <p>If you love nipping down to the corner shop by bike for milk or a paper, or if you’ve transported your new bed by cargo bike, or if you use your trailer as a supermarket shopping trolley – as long as it’s Shopping by Bike – send us your experiences, ideas or handy hints – and you could win a great prize plus some modest fame.</p> <p>Whether you’ve a great idea that would help other people, a challenge you’ve overcome, an experience you’d rather forget, or something you’d not recommend – if it’s about Shopping by Bike, we want to hear from you!! It needn’t be about equipment, though it could be. It might be an amusing incident, or how shopping by bike changed your life, or just a handy hint. It might even be about a shop or a service that comes to you by bike.</p> <p>Factors in judging may include how useful your idea is, or how interesting or unusual your experience. Words alone are fine, even just one superb sentence, but a picture, diagram etc often adds value to an entry.</p> <p>Super prizes (Including 10 runner-up prizes) !!<br /> ScotRail Return ticket for 2 adults &amp; up to 4 kids between any 2 ScotRail stations<br /> Spokes £750 voucher* towards purchase of a cargo-bike<br /> Spokes £100 voucher* towards purchase of an e-bike<br /> Spokes Full set of 4 Spokes maps plus 2 buffs**<br /> Edinburgh Filmhouse Tickets for 2<br /> Lanterne Rouge (cyclists’ favourite cafe, in Gifford) £20 voucher<br /> Dowerhouse Cafe Two £25 vouchers [one per prizewinner]<br /> Civerinos Pizza Voucher for two 20″ pizzas<br /> Edinburgh BikeCoop £50 voucher<br /> Camera Obscura &amp; World of Illusions Family ticket<br /> Sustrans £20 voucher for Sustrans online shop<br /> Edinburgh Festival of Cycling One day free hire of the EdFoC Urban Arrow cargobike<br /> Laidback Bikes Electric or manual recumbent tour, solo or guided to Cramond OR one day free hire of Helios tandem/cargo bike<br /> Spokes 10 runners-up will each win 1 buff**</p> <p>Competition rules<br /> Closing date – midnight Sunday 4 September<br /> Your entry can be text (prose or verse) with or without photos, or photos alone, or a video, with the following conditions…<br /> Text (prose or verse) – 600 word limit<br /> Photos – max 4 photos and please try to keep each photo under 1MB<br /> Video – can be very short but definitely no longer than 2 minutes. You must give a link to your video (e.g. on youtube), do not attach it</p> <p><a href="http://www.spokes.org.uk/2022/06/spokescomp-shopping-by-bike/" rel="nofollow">http://www.spokes.org.uk/2022/06/spokescomp-shopping-by-bike/</a> </p>