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Innertube Map Postcode Cycle Challenge - Free Family Event

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  1. Wendy
    Member

    Come join in the fun at the Bike Station’s Innertube Map Postcode Challenge on Sunday 12th June.

    The Bike Station in conjunction with The People’s Postcode Lottery is running the kids and adult-friendly event, which is a bit like a Treasure Hunt on wheels.

    The challenge is to find 10 cards which can be found at different postcodes along the North Edinburgh traffic-free cycling pathways (postcodes to follow). Our Innertube map will help guide you round the quiet and scenic routes. Collect all ten cards, hand them in to us and you will be in with a chance to win one of our many great prizes, such as meal for two vouchers, cinema vouchers and many more.

    Come and join in on the free fun on Sunday 12th June, between 10am and 4pm on the North Edinburgh Cyclepaths!

    For more information keep an eye on the Bike Station website: http://www.thebikestation.org.uk

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. recombodna
    Member

    " Our Innertube map will help guide you round the quiet and scenic routes "

    We'll be there all day in that case!......... ;-)

    Sound s good though I'll bring my kids along.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Wendy
    Member

    :) Great, see you there Recombodna!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Wendy
    Member

    Hello,

    A reminder that the Innertube Map Postcode Challenge is on Sunday. Hundreds of great prizes are up for grabs - including a flatscreen TV, shopping vouchers (up to £150), a year's family pass to Edinburgh Zoo, and much more.

    Full joining instructions for the day (including postcodes) are available on the Bike Station website: http://www.thebikestation.org.uk/innertube-map/

    It's going to be a great free family day out, and hopefully the weather is going to hold until 4pm: http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/edinburgh

    Wendy.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. crowriver
    Member

    Hope to see you there with my son in tow.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    I'd hoped to be there too, but may have to send family instead and stay at work. Great prizes!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    "Great prizes!"

    "Sustainable" transport charity offering flat screen telly??

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. SRD
    Moderator

    don't want telly. want zoo pass!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. recombodna
    Member

    Mmmmmm telly!....

    Hope it don't rain tomorrow!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    I think telly good prize if you are trying to encourage people new to cycling [I don't know why I think that it is probably because I am an insensitive man]. I hope some people went out in the rain, it wasn't warm either

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. steveo
    Member

    It's today gembo, looks glorious out there. Going to take the wee man for a walk he's still too wee to go on the bike.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    Ah 12th that is right. WoL path a bit muddy and Colinton is about as far as my lot will cycle without complaint. Maybe they will do it next year out this way [Balerno-Colinton?] I suppose North Trinit path ways more of them and less muddy. I did want that telly tho. Hope it stays dry

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. wingpig
    Member

    It's dry, just too sunny. Was going to take the wean round it but his sunhat won't stay on so I'll just nip round (insofar as nipping will be possible) whilst he has a sleep.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. SRD
    Moderator

    just too sunny

    errr.... you are joking aren't you?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. Min
    Member

    Not from where I'm sitting but has been nice all morning up till my husband went out with his new camera lens.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. wingpig
    Member

    It was too sunny. Child would have been unburnt in retrospect, though he'd have probably flung his hat way somewhere.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. SRD
    Moderator

    well, obviously we don't want sunburns, but a bit of sun is good. vitamin d deficiency is a real problem - although other countries seem to take it more seriously.

    there was a study recently that showed scottish youth seriously deficient, but have seen no response rom public health authorities here.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. crowriver
    Member

    It wasn't that sunny. In any case most of the paths in North Edinburgh are well shaded by trees, so you'd be hard pressed to get a tan or sunburn methinks.

    Six year old son and I had great fun finding all the stalls, he leapt off the tagalong with the card to get it stamped at each. I can see him riding brevets when he's older...

    It was good to see so many families out cycling. A lot more than the usual contingent one sees pedalling around the paths of a Sunday.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. wingpig
    Member

    I'll just say that I envy people able to leave their houses without having to faff about taking precautionary measures against burning or getting heatstroke and leave it there.

    Hopefully it got a few people doing a bit more trundling than they otherwise would on paths they might be unfamiliar with, but there were a fair few people who might have benefited from being introduced to the concept of polite cycling (and of 'other people' or 'dog leads') before hitting the paths.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. recombodna
    Member

    The boy wonder and I had a great time doing this today. Dylan got a lot of compliments on his large geared mongrel road bike that we cobbled together from bits n bobs in the garage.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  21. Wendy
    Member

    Thanks to everyone who came along - we had 167 teams, which equalled over 400 participants. A great turn out and it hopefully created lots of new cyclists!

    Posted 13 years ago #

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