CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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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.
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Spotted/Bike Breakfast/EdFoC thread (I can't believe we don't have one - bit late now)
I tried to chivy on a few cyclists I saw on the train in, but they knew nothing about it.
Turned up to a poor performance as the weather had cared a few off, it would appear? Saw Dave, Tractor factory, Instographic, Morningsider, Arellcat and a fwe others I know who don't frequent this parish. Buttie eaten and limp speaches said we sloped off at 8:45. Hope summer arrives eventually :O(
I was there with Child no 2 in the bike seat. Saw the Red Torpedo but met up with a friend not of this parish so didn't introduce myself. Seemed fairly busy by the time I had to head off at 8:30 though?
I have to admit that without a thread here and not paying a huge amount of attention to Twitter these days I was completely ignorant of the BB.
Likewise - I rode past the BB at about 8.30ish this morning and didn't even notice!
It's one of those things where 'everyone assumes' there is a thread!
I kinda blame Twitter - or at least the fact that it's easy to assume people read CCE and Twitter - which is SO not true!!
I dip in and out of Twitter as I found I was becoming a slave to it. Its instantanious and you can miss stuff.
That said, it's an annual event which pre-dates Twitter and EdFoC.
I'm still not entirely clear what the Bike Breakfast even is.
(To be honest, finding out anything on the Spokes website is infuriating. Come on guys, web site design has moved on since 1996!)
"I'm still not entirely clear what the Bike Breakfast even is"
Different thinks to different people!
Free Spokes map if you get there early enough.
Free breakfast of a bacon/sausage/scrambled egg roll, juice, tea/coffee sort.
Chance to meet your associates
Opportunity for politicians to praise themselves
Info stalls (some) with prizes
Dr. bike
Police bike marking
Chance to network/lobby
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Spokes CycleCampaign (@SpokesLothian)
17/06/2015 12:38
We had 100 tweet notifications re great #bikebreakfast today :) Hashtag next year! twitter.com/SustransScot/s… @CyclingEdin @AndrewDBurns @edfoc
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@chdot:
Thanks - I'll maybe come to the next one.
Was talking about this on Twitter with Wilmington's Cow this morning. Why don't they either move the location every year to a different bike commuting 'hotspot', or have mini-breakfasts on some of the busier bike commuting routes around Edinburgh? It's currently restricting itself to those who pass by on their route, or make the effort to divert and/or who struggle up the 'ruddy big hill' that must be climbed from three directions to get there!
(There used to be a 'Cycle to Work Day' breakfast at the Ritz in Edinburgh Park during Bike to Work Week, but that stopped a few years ago. I never even made it there either, as it didn't open until an hour after I'd arrived at work - and I'd have had to get my freshly-showered self back into my sweaty cycling kit and wheel my bike across to prove I'd cycled in order to get the free nosh!)
Wilmington has organised a few informal breakfasts on the wee lump beside the road at the start of the downslope on the hill in previous years. A few years ago there was a suggestion for Bike Week to have breakfastlets in a few key places to show people passing in enclosed vehicles how nice it can be to be able to jump off and consume foodstuffs without the whole find-a-parking-space thing.
"Why don't they either move the location every year"
Simple answer is that this (perhaps) isn't about feeding random 'new cyclists'. The 'council supports cyclists' and 'chance to talk to politicians' elements are intentionally important.
"or have mini-breakfasts on some of the busier bike commuting routes around Edinburgh?"
Well...
Passed this on the way to the 'proper' Bike Breakfast.
Was hailed and offered "Starbucks' coffee" (close to PY too!) person seemed unaware that this was same day as Spokes one.
Simple answer is that this (perhaps) isn't about feeding random 'new cyclists'.
I've always felt that the BB was as much a reward for people who cycle already. But I do like to listen to the speeches. Lesley Hinds was visibly enthusiastic about having been on her bike a few times, and talked about being free to decide when to cycle and when to walk or take the bus.
The City Chambers isn't remotely on my own commute unless I'm en route to a meeting likely arranged by someone not planning to attend the BB! I passed the Alpine Bikes pop-up stand and assumed, on account of my great speed, that they were just doing a Dr Bike kind of thing and trying to muscle in on Greasemonkey's patch.
Also said hello to DaveC, Dave, Morningsider, Kim & Ulli, spotted Suzanne Forup, and remarked quietly to myself that all the people from Edinburgh Bicycle seem to be younger than ever.
Alpine - that's not a smart PR move in my view.
In the (Tiso) past they sponsored the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling.
Despite living in the city centre I have yet to make it to a bike breakfast at the City Chambers due to a lack of knowledge for the first couple of years of my cycling renaissance, and then a combination of running late or being on the wrong side of town (i.e. planning failures on my part) in the more recent years. Maybe next year...
There's a bike breakfast at the Bike Bothy on the campus at Heriot-Watt University on Thursday 25th, 07:45-10:00.
Missed it completely. Probably because I'm living elsewhere temporarily and have not received Spokes leaflet.
Told my boss that I was at a breakfast transport seminar this morning. So the 30 miles I'll be claiming at 20p a mile will keep me in breakfast for the rest of the week.
Passed me by completely. Shame as I would have worked in town today if I'd known.
Was worth the detour to have a sausage, catch up with people I've not seen for a while (or ever, in the case of Arellcat) and dodge the speeches.
I got to the Glasgow one two years ago because I was going to a course in the west end.
Still not used anything from that course.
I thought it very quiet this year.
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I was in Dublin but did hear it was more low key
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