http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Summer of Cycling en Mon, 18 May 2026 09:08:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4950#post-52465 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:04:05 +0000 ruggtomcat 52465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>allright neophobes, its just a mailing list really :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4950#post-52428 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:25:02 +0000 Min 52428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"What's a "digital huddle"<br /> ------------<br /> I'm sure the advertising and marketing agencies are forming an orderly queue already..."</p> <p>The cycling organisation equivalent of the B Ark? :-) Keeps them out of mischief until someone dies of a virulent disease contracted from dirty handlebar tape. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4950#post-52427 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:19:26 +0000 kaputnik 52427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ummm... What's a "digital huddle" and what is the "summer of cycling"? Or is the former a way to invent the latter? Which leads my inner cynic to deduce they've come up with a name for something but they don't actually know what that thing it is yet? (But it's not (yet) building more cycle paths, improving rubbish infrastructure, tackling road safety...)</p> <p>I'm sure the advertising and marketing agencies are forming an orderly queue already...</p> <p>Gosh I can be bitter, can't I?! :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4950#post-52418 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:19:35 +0000 crowriver 52418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bump. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4950#post-52364 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:06:37 +0000 crowriver 52364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the Grauniad (London) Bike Blog thingy:</p> <p><em>Summer of Cycling is also summer of love between bike organisations<br /> This summer could be a breakthrough for the cycling world, not least because it has seen an outbreak of co-operation</p> <p>The world of organisational cycling is famously fractious, riven with splits, some of them with amazingly ancient roots. Trying to get bicycle organisations to agree on something, on anything, is like herding proverbial cats.</p> <p>Which makes a meeting last November all the more amazing: twenty three cycle organisations agreed on something.</p> <p>In 2012, these organisations will go into a digital huddle to promote the Summer of Cycling. Details for exactly what this promotion will entail are still being worked out, but to get such a consensus is big news. And, unlike previous attempts at joint promotions, all the major organisations were present.</p> <p>Among those present were executives from British Cycling, CTC, Sustrans, London Cycling Campaign, Cycling Scotland, the Bicycle Association, Bike Week, Transport for London, the Association of Cycle Traders, Halfords, the Tour of Britain and Cyclenation. Chairing the meeting was Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP and co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, a cross-party bunch of bicycling MPs and peers.</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/jan/09/summer-of-cycling-bike-organisations" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/jan/09/summer-of-cycling-bike-organisations</a></p> <p>Interesting to see Cycling Scotland involved.</p> <p>Also note that no fewer than TWO Edinburgh MPs are members of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group: Mark Lazarowicz and Sheila Gilmore (my constituency MP, so it happens). Also tickled that one of the Vice Chairs is LD MP Tom Brake. Pity there's no Lord Derailleur sporting a handlebar moustache too.</p> <p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/cycling.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/cycling.htm</a></p> <p>Should CCE be link farming to the Summer of Cycling web site? Should we 'organise' an 'event'? </p>