Cutting from a paper just sent to me...
CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Cutting from a paper just sent to me...
Should explain that it actually looks like a bike symbol with some 'guerilla' graffiti added. I likes. I want a white spray can.
Should say "you're to fat for your bike"
you mean "you're too fat for your bike"
:P
Or perhaps, "you're too fat not to bike"...
if it was a fully sus MTB with extra chunky tyres
"your bike's too fat"
LOL. The only thing I had to ride to vote on earlier this year was my hardtail with downhill tyres on. It was like riding in treacle...
you voted for your bike?
The You're too sexy for your car posters are part of our marketing for our A better way to work project. If anyone wants copies of the poster for their workplace send me a message and I'll happily pop some in the post for you.
Aha! So it's your work?
I still think some genuine guerilla action creating graffiti on the bike lanes like this would be great!
Sadly I've been working on getting people in here cycling for 5 years now. Only ever managed one extra person... :(
@Anth - Hah - I have converted at least 5
In fairness we've got a stonking proportion live in places like Kirkcaldy, Duns, way up in Perthshire, Glasgow, and had people in Stirling and Berwick (as in 'upon Tweed', not 'North') till recently.
And the rest live within 5-20 minutes walk. One person I converted stopped over winter, and hasn't been able to get re-started, so instead drives (from the bottom of Easter Road to Melville Street!) and then runs at lunchtimes.
I think I'm one of only about 3 people in here for whom cycling would actually make sense - one cycles 2-3 times a week, and the other is the one who has gone back to the car and running...
let their tyres down? ;)
A surprising number of people cycle to my office (well, compared with zero at my last office I suppose I was going to be inevitably taken aback).
The boss got a bike quite recently, and was pleasantly surprised that he can save 10 minutes cycling in from Barnton to Leith vs the car.
Our bike shed now packed to overflowing, bikes dumped where there is nothing to chain them to
spitfire - not sure who you work for, but Cycling Scotland has loans or grants (depending on the size of your company) available for improving cycling infrastructure, such as new cycle parking for workplaces that have or are working towards the Cycle Friendly Employer Award:
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Cycling Scotland has teamed up with the Energy Saving Trust to offer Interest Free Loans to private sector organisations to install cycle infrastructure measures towards becoming Cycle Friendly Employers.
Loans of up to £10,000 are available to private sector workplaces with more than 2,000 employees, loans of up to £5,000 for sites with more than 1000 staff, and loans of up to £2,500 for smaller sites.
For further information and an application form visit http://cyclingscotland.org/cyclefriendlyemployer.aspx
Workplace Grants to SMEs
With continued support from the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives, Cycling Scotland are pleased to launch the 2010 Workplace Grants to support organisations towards becoming Cycle Friendly. Grants of up to £2,000 are available to provide incentives and promotional activity for staff. Priority for the grants will be given to Small to Medium Sized Organisations (SMES) that can demonstrate commitment to increased staff cycling to and from the workplace.
For further information and an application form visit http://www.cyclingscotland.org. The submission deadline for Workplace Grant applications is the 22nd October 2010
To qualify for the loans and grants employers must be registered with Cycle Friendly Employer. If you have not already done so, you can register your organisation online and complete a short self-assessment at http://www.cyclingscotland.org. This is a quick and easy process, and allows us to feedback recommendations and an action plan.
For more information visit http://www.cyclingscotland.org#
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Might help with your overflowing cycle parking!
you mean "you're too fat for your bike"
yes thats whot eye ment!!
This the kind of thing you're looking for anth
Neither of those statements are true though....... Bicycles certainly don't run on fat and cars don't run on money or make you fat.....
............... spoilsport.
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