Fantastic Claire - once you've got the details nailed down, let me know so I can add it to the site.
Any time spent by anyone between now and April 22nd handing out POP flyers to passing cyclists will not be wasted...
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Our receptionist was happy to pop flyers for my friends business in the mailboxes of all the companies in our building, she might do the same for PoP flyers...
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I've just seen our school's latest newsletter and they've taken my suggestion of an article telling parents about POP.
Still time to get one in your school's...
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If the long range forecast for the next few weeks is at all accurate, we're in line for a spell of nice settled weather - just as spring is upon us.
This *should* mean a fresh crop of bikes & new cyclists appearing on the streets.
If you are keen to help and haven't done any handlebar flyering yet, now might be a good time to start...
Tucking rolled up preprinted flyers under bike saddles works too. As does accosting cyclists and handing them flyers (but that's not for everyone!)
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Link to handlebar flyers here http://pedalonparliament.org/resources/#handlebar
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See top of thread for other ways to get involved.
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15715
Basic basics -
1) be there
2) bring others!
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I printed mine at the weekend, so shall chop them this evening. Might be able to do Waverley this week.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Hi there,
Will print off some handlebar flyers today. The universities would be my most obvious targets, but if folk have other suggestions i'd be happy to make a few trips around town over the weekend.
R
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Excellent - thanks ReeBee and Wingpig. As to where best to flyer - others will know Edinburgh's bike hotspots better than me. I find it's good to keep them handy in my pockets from now on and attach them to any bike I find - especially away from the obvious hotspots. Supermarkets can be surprisingly good hunting grounds, for instance
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ooh thanks reebee.
George Square area & Kings bldgs usually well covered, but other campuses would be great - e.g. Pollock halls, geog, pleasance etc
i don't know about the other unis.
the hospitals usually have lots of full racks - would be great if someone could do ERI, Western General etc.
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I could do the Western on the way home, but don't know how well-populated the racks would be then.
Posted 8 years ago # -
West Edinburgh feeder ride now organised with help from HankChief, Stickman and BikeTrain!
We'll start at St Margarets Park in Corstorphine, make a pit stop at Roseburn Park and then get to Meadows for hopefully around 11.30am.
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Meet 10.15 for 10.30 departure from St Margarets Park, Corstorphine
Or
10.50 for 11.00 departure from Roseburn Park.
All welcome.
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I'll handlebar-flyer Haymarket and environs tomorrow lunchtime.
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Waverley done at lunchtime. If Stickman does Haymarket I'll do a general sweep of other bits of west end.
Posted 8 years ago # -
my creme-egg-fuelled-underageworkforce has started laminating posters...
who wants some?
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Yeslaminate please.
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Should be a good lot available at PY Friday.
Can also do other times/places.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I could take two or three for our bikes. I should make it to PY this Friday.
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I have printed off some handlebar flyers. I will do Haymarket sometime, not immediately, no harm in having it done more than once I think.
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If anyone fancies a trip to Lauriston Place, Bob's Barber Shop told me that they'd be very happy to have a poster for the window and a stack of leaflets. The leaflets have gone quickly in the past apparently, so a pile a few inches high would probably all be taken.
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Excellent @cc.. I will drop some into Bob's.. Anybody else know of a place crying out for a poster and flyers?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Haymarket and one block of Rose Street done. Also the few bikes that were tethered on Roseburn Terrace.
I'll do George Street/Rose Street next week.
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https://twitter.com/backonmybike/status/712668266028797953
"Glad to see other @POPScotland fairies have been at work today! Bikes at Waverely and Haymarket liberally sprinkled!"
Posted 8 years ago # -
"
We have decided to join Pedal on Parliament 2016 to highlight the diversity of cycling options for people with sight loss issues. Cycling is a viable transport and leisure option for people with a wide range of disabilities. However, access to many cycle tracks is limited if you are riding a tandem, tricycle or any of a wide range of adaptive cycles. Talking Tandems ride mostly on quiet roads and accessible cycle paths but can face restrictions with many routes. We aim to inform politicians that cycling comes in many forms and that the government should cater for all cyclists.
"
http://www.pedalonparliament.org/talking-tandems-to-lead-out-pop-for-2016/
Posted 8 years ago # -
I finally got around to putting up a first wave of posters on sheds at Heriot-Watt University campus.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I put some flyers on what bikes there were at the Commie on Monday - unfortunately it being a bank holiday there were not many bikes! This is a place that can afford plenty of flyering as there will be different people there at different times.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Is there a possibility that the PoP Magnificent graphic designer could create a pennant template?
I'm imagining a flag that's an isoceles triangle the size of a piece of A4 with the apex of the triangle in the middle of one of the short sides and the base of the triangle on the other short side. A two-sided design can then be printed double-sided to make a flag, laminated and mounted on a pole.
Here's a link to Andrew Burns's blog with a picture of such a flag...
http://andrewburns.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/pedal-on-parliament-pop2015.htmlPosted 8 years ago # -
We could certainly see if someone could put something together based on Andy's design ... I will forward to the POP group
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I've started putting laminated posters up around the meadows. will spread out towards the new infra.
Also took handlebar flyers with me down Brunstfield place as far as Holy Corner on Thursday, but very few bikes out when I was there- could anyone else do a couple of runs down Morningside?
I usually also do some up and down George IV/Chambers st.
Hoping others can do some of the more far flung areas.
would anyone be able to flyer/chalk the NEPN this year? Last year I was up and down to the Western general, but health better this year so hoping not to be...
also some mobile Propaganda:
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