CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Not sure if people have seen this but
"Scottish Cycling, together with Sportscotland, are reviewing the Scottish Cycling facilities strategy. The aim of this strategy is to identify and develop priorities for the development of current and proposed cycling facilities to ensure that we have a network of high quality facilities that will encourage participation and support the development of high standards of performance across all disciplines of cycling"
Check it out & add yer tuppenyworth:
If you have any interest in 'cycling' - even not in a formal sport sense - I think it would be worthwhile to spend some time to add your views.
Very long and slightly repetitive questionnaire.
In the middle there is -
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Scottish Cycling is proposing to create a network of Development Hubs that meet the needs of a range of disciplines around the country. The network will be a focus for participation growth, performance development and competition, club support and coach and official training. These Development Hubs will initially be based around current facilities and will focus on developing these facilities to improve them and expand their capacity to cover multiple diciplines where appropriate It is important to restate that not all disciplines will be involved at each Development Hub but the minimum requirements for each hub will include the following:
• A dedicated facility built to at least regional standard in at least one discipline
• Facilities to support entry into cycle sport for new participants
• Multi-club involvement
• Meeting/Coaching room
• Potential for year round use
• Eventually, Scottish Cycling would aspire to have one of its own Regional Development officers and/or a development officer from a local authority based at each Hub.
• Hubs to be linked to networks of on road and off road circuits appropriate to the disciplines catered for.
• Where MTB is identified, in addition to trails it is assumed that skills loops will be provided.
• Hubs should, where possible be linked to wider community sports hub provision.
The Development Hubs will be based primarily in discrete and significant centres of population. The exception to this would be in the Highlands where the specific assets of Fort William and Aviemore would justify them being linked satellite centres to the main Development Hub in Inverness.
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Then further on -
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19. In developing Hubs Scottish Cycling is looking at opportunities to join up with other sports and activities which might be able to share use of the facilities. This would include use of the facility itself by e.g. other wheeled sports but would also include use of the support facilities such as changing, showers, storage, meeting rooms etc. Thinking about the facilities you use do you see any opportunities for their use by other sports or activities in the area ?
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Then -
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20. While we have not included natural trails, recreational or commuting cycle paths or the public road in the list of formal cycling facilities, we recognise that such resources are very important to the provision and development of cycling. In relation to these resources it would be useful to know how you feel about the following statments
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The idea of "regional hubs" is party why CEC is planning to spend money at Hunters Hall.
Just a reminder - I haven't filled it in yet either!
That was as bad a survey as I've filled in for some time.
It didn't admit of the possibility that I might not want their facility.
Two lists had bike shop as an option twice.
The last list had how you found out about the survey as one of the selectable options.
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