Is having a Festival of Cycling a good idea? Is this something which people want to see as part of the festival scene in Edinburgh?
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Is having a Festival of Cycling a good idea?
(10 posts)- Started 10 years ago by Kim
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not resolved - poll: Is having a Festival of Cycling in Edinburgh a good idea?Yes : (17 votes)
89 %No : (0 votes)
Don't know : (2 votes)
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Posted 10 years ago #
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I voted yes, but I've never attended so perhaps I shouldn't have voted at all! For me the problem is the timing - I am nearly always away in early June and it is always a hurdle for me to drag myself into Edinburgh from Dalkeith anyway. I note that there is competition (or mutual support) from the Tweedlove.
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Tweedlove is in May and is finished before the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling starts.
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I'll be honest - cycling is how I get to work and sometimes how I pootle around at the weekend. It's a bit functional. I hardly spend any of my leisure time doing it and very rarely do it for its own sake. I don't do it at all for any grander environmental or social objective so having a festival of cycling seems to me a bit like having a festival of doing the washing up. Maybe a festival of gardening - which some people enjoy but I only do it because without it the grass gets too long.
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@insto gardening Scotland this weekend. All sorts of gardening and non gardening items available on the one big site at ingilston
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My idea of hell. No, hell would be having to go to a gardening event at DisneyWorld and finding you could only have Starbucks coffee or warm Tennents.
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@Instography how about the arts and cultural events? Would any of this appeal to you? For instance, the dramatic reading of the play about the life of Marco Pantani, the film Half the Road or the talk about How the roads were not built for cars, just to give a few examples. Would any of that interest you? Just curios...
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Any of them of could interest me. It's not like I'm immune to the charms of a cycling-based film (although a reading of a play is pushing it a bit). If the constellations arranged themselves in the right way so that they coincided with me and some people going out in Edinburgh (bearing in mind that I live in Fife and have two kids so these things need to be planned) then I might well find myself there. But I'd be just as likely to buy tickets, meet for a pint before going and just decide to stay in the pub. At least that's what happened to my last Book Festival excursion. There's nothing about it that makes me feel that I really need to be there. If you could get Tracey Thorn to read the play (or just stand there) I'd be there in a heartbeat.
But a single event isn't a festival. It's like going to see a band and going to a festival. Sure, I'll go and see bands but going to festivals is a whole different level of interest and commitment. It's immersion. You've got to want to spend the weekend listening to bands you barely like and sitting uncomfortably with really pissed people. And that's just Cambridge, never mind Chavstock.
So when you say "Festival of Cycling" I don't think 'ooh, there might be one or two things that I might be interested in'. It makes me think of POP for a week. A level of earnest discussion of segregation and shared use of a type that I haven't experienced since Marxism 86.
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I'm completely immune to the purported charm of a cycling-based film, particularly if it's a cycling-as-sport film or one of those things where the cameraman has bribed couriers to ride especially courierishly. Discussions can be found online but I'll try to get to at least one talk-thing.
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Any more for any more?
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