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The official account for the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, find out more at https://edfoc.org.uk/
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Sat 29 Nov, 3-4pm #TheCausey

Free ☕ + check your 🚲 by @weespokehub.bsky.social

Also @edcriticalmass.bsky.social ride ends there (meet 2pm Middle Meadow Walk)

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Poster by The Causey about free bike maintenance Sat 29 Nov, 3-4pm Map of Critical Mass ride, Meadows to The Causey via city centre Map showing the Causey location, West Crosscauseway
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Why cyclists fear dangers of new Edinburgh tram route
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2564...

Lots of good points here, the main problem is that there is no plan for reducing motor traffic which takes up a disproportionate amount of space within the city.
Risks and dangers of Edinburgh's tram proposal for cyclists
When it comes to Edinburgh trams and cycling, the focus has been mainly on the Roseburn Path. But cyclists are worried about other dangers.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Cyclists at Road Works www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Guidance and Directions for Designers, Contractors,
Council Operations and Utility Works on Edinburgh’s
Road Network.

Why doesn't Edinburgh Council require contractors to follow their own guidance? What's the point of them, if ignored?
www.spokes.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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⚒️ Build it and they will come; then what? buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...
Edinburgh has an aspiration to lessen car Km driven & increase its cycling network, and therefore increase the number of people cycling. Also, Remember that Edinburgh is a city where only 1/2 of households have access to a car
🚲 edi.bike | issue 120 | 24th Nov ‘25
your weekly edinburgh cycling digest
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November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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🌲 If buying a #ChristmasTree
get it delivered by #CyclingGardeners 🚲 #CargoBike

--> www.tollcrosstreeworks.com

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Picture of xmas tree in Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh Local Bike delivery £5.00 Description This service cost £5 and is available to anyone within 10 minutes cycle from our yard in Tollcross (Cycle time taken from google maps)
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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edi.bike
🚲 edi.bike | issue 120 | 24th Nov '25

Bike Station launch #EverydayHeroes crowdfunder; Article on failings in maintenance & closing paths; more Hire Parking Campaign Photos, + events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-120-24th-nov-25/

The Pentland hills silhouetted against a setting sun; the sky is a wash of warm orange and crystal blue, we can make out the white mark of the dry ski run on the near slope, and there is a scattering of thin, wispy cloud across the sky. The picture is framed in by a bare tree’s branches in the top right corner.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Black Friday Deal, we are offering 10% off Cargo Bike Hire between now and Friday 19th December 2025.

That is 10% off the hire rates shown on our web page.

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Urban Arrow cargo bike hire
EdFoC's Urban Arrow cargo bike is available for hire and rental
edfoc.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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#A701 'relief road' petition

--> pentlandhouse.com/cbxpetition/...

Spokes view--> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Heading of the petition, plus picture of the fields to be built over Stop the £55 Million A701 Relief Road Target: 1000 Received: 537 53.7% The Issue Midlothian Council has submitted a £55 million plan (25/00521/DPP) for a “A701 Relief Road” — but the evidence shows it will make congestion and environmental problems worse, not better.
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It's disappointing to see public safety cited as a reason for implementing such a dangerous diversion across a busy junction.
It should be possible to manage the risk of works along the path as done for CEC's regular lighting, devegetation and drainage works.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Ferry Road Path CLOSED to pedestrians and cyclists from today to 16 January for installation of a security fence at Leonardo. TTRO closure order was signed on Wednesday with the below diversion: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi... #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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E-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK: Insights from surveys and suburban trials www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
• Over half of the e-cargo bike mileage ridden during trials substituted for car use.
• By Autumn 2024, 20% trial households had bought e-cargo bikes
E-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK: Insights from surveys and suburban trials
This paper explores the potential of e-cargo bikes as a personal transport mode in the UK, reporting on a series of surveys and trials. Hypothesising …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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How do electric cargo bikes fit with real life? A social practice analysis in the United Kingdom www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to find out how one might fit with your life? Why not hire ours for a week or two and find out 😉
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How do electric cargo bikes fit with real life? A social practice analysis in the United Kingdom
Cycling an e-cargo bike offers key advantages of both car and bike use, and its potential to substitute many car trips offers energy demand reduction …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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#EverydayHeroes - Help @thebikestation.bsky.social get more people on bikes www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everyday-h... Every little bit makes a difference 😄
#EverydayHeroes - Help us get more people on bikes
Get more people on bikes — for their health, their minds, and the planet. Join our #EverydayHeroes and make change happen!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🙄 #StMarksPath closure with no thought to🚲

Here's what it means for real people

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email copied to spokes... Dear councillors, I'm getting in touch about the closure of St Mark's Path. I am asking you to work urgently with CEC and their contractor CCG to ensure that this initial 8 week closure does not receive local authority approval to continue for the duration of the Powderhall development, until Spring 2027. My family and I cycle along St Mark's Path on an almost daily basis. We live close to the McDonald Rd Fire Station. We haven't owned a car for 2.5 years; ours was stolen and we chose not to replace it. A significant factor in being able to remain car-free, with three very active school aged children, is the fantastic safe cycling routes we have in North Edinburgh, all of which we access via St Mark's Path. These paths open up safe travel routes to the kids' football club (Spartans FC at Ainslie Park), where they train and play three times per week, as well as many of their home pitches - Arboretum, Broughton HS, Wardie Playing Fields, Craigroyston HS etc. St Mark's Path also makes my cycle to work as a nurse at the WGH much safer than going through Canonmills, Stockbridge etc. It is very frustrating that such a well used element of Edinburgh's active travel network has been shut, albeit with an (disability unfriendly, unsuitably surfaced, poorly lit) pedestrian diversion. Crossing from McDonald Rd on to St Mark's Path is tricky enough with young kids on bikes, but at least there is the option to cross with the traffic lights. Conversely, travelling from McDonald Rd onto the diversion involves a left hand turn onto a busy road and then a right hand turn on a blind summit, or cycling along the footpath in a group. Both of these options bring their own dangers and neither would be deemed acceptable by anyone who cycles this route with children. It would be very much appreciated if you could share with me any information you have about any consultation that was undertaken about this closure, any impact assessment that was carried ou…
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Meet the #EverydayHeroes Changing Lives on Two Wheels www.thebikestation.org.uk/post/meet-th... At @thebikestation.bsky.social, we believe that every person who rides a bike is an everyday hero — for their health, for their mind, and for the planet.
Meet the #EverydayHeroes Changing Lives on Two Wheels
At The Bike Station, we believe that every person who rides a bike is an everyday hero — for their health, for their mind, and for the planet.Today, we’re launching our #EverydayHeroes public giving c...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🙋 #Barnton Connections 🚶👩‍🦼🚲

🙋 DROP-IN Thur 20 Nov 2pm-6.30

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drop-in details... City Gates Church, Whitehouse Road From 20 Nov 2025 at 14:00 to 20 Nov 2025 at 18:30 More information An information event displaying the latest plans with an opportunity to discuss these with representatives from the designers and the City of Edinburgh Council. This is a drop-in event, held at City Gates Church, EH4 6BU and the public can attend at any time between 1400 and 1830. City Gates Church, Whitehouse Road From 1 Dec 2025 at 14:00 to 1 Dec 2025 at 18:30 Consultaiton page intro + visualisation of Whitehouse Rd with cycle & walk facilities Overview We have proposals to improve walking, wheeling, and cycling conditions along Maybury Road from the new housing at Cammo Meadows, through Barnton junction and along Whitehouse Road as far north as Barnton Avenue West. The changes would help the local community get to shops, schools and other important local facilities more easily and safely. They’ll be especially helpful for people living at Cammo, including the new Cammo Meadows housing, who currently have to cross the busy Barnton junction to get to the places they need. drawing of proposals for Maybury Rd/ Whitehouse Rd crossing of Queensferry Rd Map of entire project area, Maybury Rd to Whitehouse Rd
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🙋 Rainy-Day traffic count

😬 Spokes biannual count jinxed by lunchtime downpour!

--> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/11/nov-...

+ interesting data on car single-occupancy

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start of spokes article... Nov 2025: Rainy Day Traffic Count Our biannual city-centre traffic count*, on Tuesday 11 November, unusually fell on a day with significant rain forecast. The morning hour (8-9am) did stay dry, though cold, and, despite the forecast, cyclists formed 14.2% of all vehicles, almost unchanged from the 14.4% in last November’s bright and sunny count day. However at lunchtime, when, admittedly, many bike trips are optional, there was not just rain, but a major downpour: bike numbers plummeted and car and taxi numbers rose, resulting in bikes falling from 10.2% of all vehicles last year to 5.6% in 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Cycle to work scheme ceiling could return at Autumn budget www.cyclingelectric.com/news/cycle-t...
Under pressure the Chancellor is rumoured to be looking at reintroducing a cap to the cycle to work scheme, in a move that could punish genuine mid-to-high-spec electric bike buyers.
Cycle to work scheme ceiling could return at Autumn budget
Under pressure Chancellor Rachel Reeves is rumoured to be looking at reintroducing a cap to the cycle to work scheme
www.cyclingelectric.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Cycleways to nowhere
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
An FOI reveals local authorities’ traffic-free path struggles
Cycleways to nowhere
An FOI reveals local authorities’ traffic-free path struggles
lauralaker.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows road.cc/content/news...
Read full report here theaws.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows
The trial took place in three areas across the UK and found the scheme also resulted in healthcare savings in relation to preventable deaths and disease
road.cc
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🚲 edi.bike | issue 119 | 17th Nov '25

North-South Tram Extension Consultation Midnight Today, 17th Nov; Voi Bikes in Cycle Racks Update; November Transport & Environment Committee Round-up; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

#bikeSky #edinburgh
A group of around ten protesters stand under the sandstone arches of the City Chambers on a cold, wet Royal Mile, its pavements shining and reflective of the buildings opposite in the rain - the protestors hold up hand-painted clocks, a large hand-painted road name plate reading ‘Cowgate’, and a long vinyl banner that reads ‘Delays Cost Lives! Support Active Travel Now!’. They are being addressed by a middle-aged man dressed in black, carrying a black umbrella - the Council’s Transport and Environment Committee Convener, Councillor Stephen Jenkinson.
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Cyclists should stay in the bike lane

The bike lane
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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A new study says automobiles are given a disproportionate and amount of space on city streets https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/7tvaikSzXEAWDYHSnpFzcq
A new study says automobiles are given a disproportionate and amount of space on city streets
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November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Looking for the most detailed #TrafficFree cycle route guides for UK routes there are?
Want info on the route surface, barriers, safety, café stops, an interactive map AND a weather forecast?
Of course you do!
Here you go, but share with others, too!
#Cycling
www.willcycle.com/traffic-free...
Traffic-free cycling routes in the UK - WillCycle
Easily find gorgeous traffic-free (and usually family-friendly) cycling routes in the UK. Browse the interactive map to make finding routes nearest to you a breeze!
www.willcycle.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it earth.ed.ac.uk/news/how-car...
Edinburgh has one of the lowest rates of vehicles per household in the UK. Yet, cycle users are still pushed to the margins by planners
How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it - Edinburgh Earth Initiative
earth.ed.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM