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Spokes Bike Breakfast - 23rd June

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  1. Wendy
    Member

    Message from Spokes:

    The excellent annual Spokes Bike Breakfast will be on between 8-10am on 23 June in the City Chamber quadrangle on Edinburgh's High Street.

    As well as breakfast on your way to work, there will be the biggest ever range of stalls, councillors to lobby, police bike security coding and much more. Transport Convenor Cllr Gordon Mackenzie will give a short speech [probably around 8.45] doubtless mentioning the Cycling Action Plan now being worked up by the Council.

    The Bike Co-op will be there with a 'Make your own Smoothie' - please note there is a mistake in the forthcoming Spokes Summer Bulletin - the Bike Coop
    is bringing the smoothie maker and shop discount vouchers - but not the bike-oiling stated in the Bulletin.

    The summer Spokes mailout goes out on 12 June and all members should receive the Bulletin and poster copies soon after that. The Bulletin features the need for the city centre to be made more bike friendly - particularly Princes Street and Picardy Place; and it includes the annual funding survey showing the state of cycling investment in Scotland last year 2009/10, and predictions for the current year 2010/11. If the future of Princes St and Picardy Place concern you, read the article in our Bulletin, then take
    the opportunity of the Bike Breakfast to put your concerns to the councillors who turn up - just ask around and you'll soon find some!

    The Spokes Bike Breakfast is part of National Bike Week. For more events, see the NBW national website [which allows you to search for local events]
    and the Changing Pace NBW local website.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  2. recombodna
    Member

    Awww I was looking forward to a goo luuuube job!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    Sounds like fun, have to be late for work that day.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  4. SRD
    Moderator

    "Awww I was looking forward to a goo luuuube job!"

    I sure need one. Got on my bike this morning after a frustrating week of not riding and chain had turned bright orange and was not happy moving at all. Great climate we've got. (yes, I should have looked after it better, but somehow had other things on my mind)

    Posted 14 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    "Awww I was looking forward to a goo luuuube job!"

    Never mind, just hope that the food isn't missing too.

    Normal menu -

    Bacon, sausage, scrambled egg (separately, or otherwise, in rolls), orange juice, coffee.

    Tends to run out about 9.15.

    Usually rains.

    In fact Bike Week is often like this week - so maybe it will be fine...)

    Normally lots of info stalls and have been 'free maps for first xx' in the past.

    There are usually only a few councillors who turn up.

    If you're going, consider e-mailing your councillor(s) to see if they will be there so you can tell them how wonderful cycling is and how much you hope the Council will do more in future.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  6. Kirst
    Member

    I can't go - it's nowhere near on my way to work and I can't make a diversion that day. :-(

    Posted 14 years ago #

  7. miggy_magic
    Member

    Went last year. It was raining. Got some freebies - multi-tool from EBC, bottles, stickers and maps, not to mention a bacon roll. Will go back again.

    Lots of beards on display.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  8. Stepdoh
    Member

    I made a diversion for it last year, but is the day before the highland show this year. Will be busy wrangling chefs and animals and contractors all day.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  9. SRD
    Moderator

    If we make it (I get off a train from London late the night before, so no promises), we should increase the number of beards, but reduce the proportion (1 out of 3).

    :)

    Posted 14 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    "we should increase the number of beards, but reduce the proportion (1 out of 3)"

    I think, in fact, you would increase the proportion.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  11. SRD
    Moderator

    "I think, in fact, you would increase the proportion."

    Really? I assumed from miggy-magic's post that more than 1 in 3 attendees had beards, so thought those of us of the female gender might reduce proportion of overall attendeees with beards, if not perhaps, of men with beards (which we would add to).

    Obviously I have forgotten the maths I slaved so over.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

    "Really? I assumed from miggy-magic's post that more than 1 in 3 attendees had beards"

    Gender issues aside, I think he was exaggerating to make a point.

    Not sure which one.

    Perhaps someone will do a count this year.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  13. miggy_magic
    Member

    Maybe this is a good opportunity to say hello to our fellow posters here, if identification is worn? Although I think a lot of people have met up already, in which case my idea is rubbish.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  14. chdot
    Admin

    "Although I think a lot of people have met up already, in which case my idea is rubbish"

    Some have but most won't have - so good idea. Main problem is people come/go at different times.

    "if identification is worn"

    Feathers in caps?

    or even

    FEATHERS

    or

    Some people may expect fingered signs or handshakes.

    I expect to be offshore.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  15. Stepdoh
    Member

    Topic=pause

    Speaking of beards, it's the Yehuda Moon Lookalike competition. Well, it made me laugh.

    Should this be in the retailer thread?

    Topic=Play

    Posted 14 years ago #

  16. SRD
    Moderator

    Well, either way, we bring more people w/out beards than with.

    No clever ideas on spotting posters, lurkers etc though

    Posted 14 years ago #

  17. Kim
    Member

    I am not sure what this is

    or how we would use it? Are supposed to have it stamped on our foreheads or something??

    Posted 14 years ago #

  18. steveo
    Member

    Tattooed on the nape is the only reliable way

    Posted 14 years ago #

  19. Dave
    Member

    I think I'll try to make it. I could try the barcode but suspect that you won't need it to identify the beast!

    I'm supposed to be at my desk in Leith at 8:30 but may negotiate an exception (otherwise I'd be stuffing my face and running off!)

    Posted 14 years ago #

  20. LaidBack
    Member

    chdot I expect to be offshore.

    So did BP call you then...?

    Apparently they have web page for Gulf oil spill with important contacts. At the bottom is a bit for any ideas that anyone may want to share...
    So said Ian Hislop in IGNFY...

    Posted 14 years ago #

  21. SRD
    Moderator

    "So said Ian Hislop in IGNFY..."

    In Private Eye they say that BP identify a Japanese home shopping network website where they claim to be giving their environmental cleanup company (or something like that, i left my copy at work).

    Posted 14 years ago #

  22. cb
    Member

    Readers send in their fix-the-oil-leak ideas to the BBC

    Getting back on topic, I don't have a beard. Getting further back on topic I can't make the bike breakfast. :-(

    Posted 14 years ago #

  23. steveo
    Member

    Any one going tomorrow?

    Posted 14 years ago #

  24. recombodna
    Member

    may pop along for a sausage!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  25. Min
    Member

    Hmm, tomorrow was supposed to be my bus-to-work day. :-/

    Posted 14 years ago #

  26. gembo
    Member

    will be there for the freebies, went for spokes map, two tools and four waterbottles last year, I think it is a record

    Posted 14 years ago #

  27. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I might try for 8am if it means a free map. Need to be at work for 8.30am.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  28. steveo
    Member

    @gembo i'll settle for a free breakfast though that's an impressive haul ;)

    The challenge for me is going to be to remember to turn off on the way and not auto pilot to work.

    Actually what is the best way from Haymarket?

    Posted 14 years ago #

  29. steveo
    Member

    Urgh just checked google, thats what i was afraid off up Torphicen street and through the road works on Morrison street. Can these works be blamed on the trams....

    Posted 14 years ago #

  30. gembo
    Member

    steveo - I'll probably have my porridge first, they should do porridge, no good way to get there from Haymarket, I'll go up Johnston Terrace myself. Will have marmite top on as identification.

    cyclingmollie,. they say at Spokes not to be there before 8a.m. but the early bird catches the map

    Posted 14 years ago #

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