There are two rides on Sunday Cramond Caper and Portobello Promenade - and twenty three more before the end of October.
Various lengths and aimed at people with a range of abilities - all free (but you have to register).
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Events, rides etc.
sky ride Local starts on Sunday
(16 posts)-
Posted 12 years ago #
-
@chdot - I've just been attempting to reverse engineer the GoRide search page, but you beat me to it!
Robert
Posted 12 years ago # -
"Helmets must be worn by all under 18's regardless of ride level"
I make no comment on the helmet thing, but more a general observation of 'or what?'
Given it's not a closed road ride etc etc etc. What is stopping anyone just tagging on? It's probably part of the SkyRide insurance or something, but serious question, if I don't register, then turn up, riding the same route, at the same pace, on a route I'm perfectly entitled to ride.... I can't see how you can be stopped...
Posted 12 years ago # -
What if you take a helmeted kid and they decide they want to take it off because they're too hot?
Anyway, I've told British Cycling that my unhelmeted kids won't be joining them.
Posted 12 years ago # -
What is stopping anyone just tagging on?
Nothing, although the ride leaders must make it clear to the tagger-on (so close to school-boy humour here) that they are not part of the ride and therefore on their own regarding insurance etc.
If anything is causing the ride to be unsafe, it will be terminated, so if the hanger-on becomes disruptive, the ride would end. But that would be true if one of the participants wouldn't take a telling, or the weather conditions changed, or roadworks closed the only adequately safe route, or...
Robert
Posted 12 years ago # -
Still plenty of places.
Don't suppose they are getting plugged by the ENews.
Anyone seen adverts/promotion anywhere to 'general public'?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I pestered a North Lanarkshire official with the question of how they would stop un-hatted kids following their on road rides.
I've taken hat less kids on the closed road Glasgow Sky Ride and nothing happened. We didn't bother registering just went for a wee spin by the river. Number 3 son fell off when he went over a hole in the road rather than round it. A valuable lesson learned.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I signed up but not heard back (was a while back) .
Posted 12 years ago # -
There are no rules about helmets for the main skyride event on 8 September
http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2012/07/edinburgh-skyride-8-septemberAs for the Skyride 'local' rides where there are still lots of unbooked spaces, why go on a ride where you have to book and (if you're a young adult) wear a helmet when there are loads of genuinely local rides without any such restrictions, some for experienced cyclists, others for the nervous and the novice...
http://www.cycling-edinburgh.org.uk/Posted 12 years ago # -
Interesting. Spokes wouldn't be publicising it if they had a requirement but they definitely did require them for kids and run leaders in the past.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@wfb Not sure if I was clear enough! They have always compelled helmeting for people up to 18 and for leaders on the led 'local skyride' rides (and they still do).
But helmets are not a requirement (and I think never have been) on the mass city skyrides - i.e. in Edinburgh that means the big Skyride event on 8 Sept, when roads will be closed off to motor traffic.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Passed what I assume was a Skyride on my way home on Sunday morning - a few kids and more adults either in ill-fitting hi-vis or dark coloured Sky kit. I was the person on the TT bike who pulled a rather impatient overtake just as they were heading onto the cycle path at Sliverknowes. <Impatient motorist mode> I didn't want to get stuck behind such a big group on the path because overtaking there is a real pain </Impatient motorist>
Posted 12 years ago # -
Our group on the canal got overtaken by some cyclists, which was fine, then an idiot tried to overtake when there were oncoming cyclists, and instead of stopping or dropping back pushed over against the kids on bikes on the canal side. luckily they didn't panic. I shouted. loudly.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Apparently -
"
The Sky Rides are in two parts. There is the Sky Ride City which Sky will pay for in full, and there is also the Sky Ride Local programme which is not without cost to the council, as it is being asked to approve the sum of £29,500 for the first year, planned to be taken out of Transport and the Culture and Sport Activcity budgets. In subsequent years it will be £23,000 according to the report brought before the meeting tomorrow. Sky will undertake all the promotion of the events however, perhaps ensuring that the y will be well supported."
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2012/08/cycling-for-everyone-in-edinburgh
Posted 12 years ago # -
So about £30 for each place - don't think first two were 'full'.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I can speak for one, and yes, it wasn't full. I'm not sure where the money is being spent, as that level isn't going to the ride leaders or route designers (or Sky).
Robert
Posted 12 years ago #
Reply
You must log in to post.
posts
