SPOKES COMPETITION - CYCLING IN THE PANDEMIC
Deadline for submitting entries – midnight on Sunday 2 May
The pandemic has upended our lives and the whole of society. Whilst health and the NHS have rightly been everyone’s top concern, transport and travel have changed drastically. For our Spring competition, we’d like to hear your cycling experience during the pandemic – anything from just one incident through to major changes to your lifestyle.
Commuting has fallen drastically as people worked from home or were put on furlough, shops and leisure facilities have been shut, and travelling has been prohibited except for essential journeys and for exercise by cycling or walking.
So what happened to you? It might be ongoing changes or it might be a particular event that sticks in your mind. Here are just a few examples…
Did you take your children on streets that had less motor traffic, and how did changing traffic levels affect this?
Did you switch to cycling to free up spaces on buses?
Did you donate a much-loved spare bike to a scheme to assist key workers – or did you receive one?
Did a Spaces for People scheme make a big difference for you? Have you corresponded with your councillor about improving it and making it permanent?
ENTRIES
Your entry can be text (prose or verse) with or without photos, or photos alone, or a video, with the following conditions…
Text (prose or verse) – 600 word limit
Photos – max 4 photos and please try to keep each photo under 1MB
Video – you must give a link to your video (e.g. on youtube), do not attach it
PRIZES
Harts Cyclery ‘Classic’ bike service worth £80 and £20 of parts
Edinburgh BikeCoop £60 voucher
Laidback Bikes One day free hire of Circe Helios tandem/cargo bike
Edinburgh Festival of Cycling One day free hire of the EdFoC Urban Arrow cargobike
Bikecraft, Ocean Terminal Outdoor Tech Wireless Bluetooth headphones (2 prizes)
Sustrans Sustrans shop e-gift card up to the value of £20, so the winner can select maps of their choice and get them delivered to their door
Spokes £500 voucher* towards purchase of a cargo-bike
Spokes £100 voucher* towards purchase of an e-bike
Spokes Full set of 4 Spokes maps plus 2 buffs**
Spokes 10 runners-up will each win 1 buff**
COMPETITION RULES
Competition rules
Closing date – midnight on Sunday 2 May.
Email your entry to competition@spokes.org.uk
Each person can submit 1 or 2 entries (not more)
Entries can only be submitted electronically, not on paper
If your entry refers to or pictures a place, it must be in Edinburgh or the Lothians
Keep your entry within the limits and conditions under ‘Your Entry’ above
Spokes may use your entry on our website, in our Bulletin or in other ways. By entering the competition you give Spokes permission to use your entry material in our ongoing campaigning and promotional work in any way. We may credit your name, unless you specifically ask us not to
The top prize winner gets first choice of prizes, and so on till all prizes allocated
The competition will be judged by members of Resources Group together with an outside judge; all of whom will be ineligible for prizes
http://www.spokes.org.uk/2021/03/spokescomp-cycling-in-the-pandemic/
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