http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: SPOKES COMPETITION 2025 : MY FAVOURITE BIKE RIDE en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:27:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21778#post-380277 Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:15:13 +0000 Rosie 380277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SPOKES COMPETITION 2025 : MY FAVOURITE BIKE RIDE</p> <p>For our 2025 summer competition we’d like to hear about your favourite local bike ride, in Edinburgh and/or the Lothians. It may be a leisure ride, or your daily commute or perhaps the school ‘run’ with your kids.</p> <p>In judging the competition, we want to know not just the route itself but, most of all, why this ride is so special to you. Hopefully your entry will entice or inspire other people to get on their bike and try the same or something similar.</p> <p>So that the competition does not require technical skills, judging will be based on written entries. Your route should be fairly easy to describe, without too many intricate instructions, frequent turnings, etc. Photos and/or a sketch can be included and often help, but are not essential. You can also include electronic mapping if you wish, but this will not be included in the judging.</p> <p>RIZES<br /> Top prizewinner gets first choice of prizes, and so on till all prizes allocated. Runner-up entries which don’t win a prize will get to choose a free Spokes map or buff</p> <p>Museum of Scottish Railways (Bo’Ness) Family annual pass to the extensive museum<br /> Bo’Ness &amp; Kinneil Steam Railway Family ticket for one return trip<br /> Ember Bus [takes 2 bikes] £50 bus tickets credit<br /> Edinburgh Bicycle £50 Edinburgh Bicycle voucher<br /> Camera Obscura Family ticket<br /> Cameo Picturehouse Tickets for 2<br /> Laidback Bikes Recumbent tour or cargobike hire<br /> Harts Cyclery One-week ebike hire<br /> Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Urban Arrow Cargo-bike day hire<br /> Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford £20 voucher<br /> Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford Blue/white no-plastic Africap from Sierra Leone<br /> Spokes £1000 voucher* towards cargo-bike purchase<br /> Spokes £200 voucher* towards e-bike purchase<br /> Spokes Set of all 4 Spokes maps<br /> RUNNERS-UP Spokes map or Edinburgh map-buff</p> <p>RULES<br /> The competition is open to all, but members of Spokes Resources Group can’t win prizes</p> <p>The competition closes on 7 September – entries will be judged soon after</p> <p>Each person can submit either 1 or 2 entries </p>