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The Lothian Cycle Campaign

This list cannot be comprehensive - there's so much out on the web. We've included the main UK cycle organisations and campaign groups and some international sites. We've also listed a range of local sites and others - particularly with environmental or transport connections.

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• Local bike shop web sites
• Other Scottish cycling sites
• Edinburgh sites
• Lothian sites

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Latest Links added to this site

• WaterofLeith.info Site about Water of Leith, Edinburgh's river
• Gyle Muir Sculpture Trail A project to highlight (and improve) walk/cycle links in the west Edinburgh area - especially with the opening of Edinburgh Park railway station (due next May)

Scottish cycle campaigns:-

• Borders Cycle Campaign
• ByCycle - the Perth & Kinross Cycle Campaign
• Castlecliff Bicycle Workshop Self-help bike workshop, renovates donated bikes for re-use by community, provides training and experience in bike maintenance skills
• Cycletraining.org.uk Campaigning for better and more cycle training for everyone.
• Dumfries Cycling Campaign - no web site but for more information contact Pete Bray:(01387) 257843
• Edinburgh CycleFest The annual party in the Meadows to celebrate cycling - a great day out for cyclists of all ages.
• Galloway Cycling Group - or contact Tom Hanley:(01387) 261969, email itemsystems@enterprise.net
• Go-Bike/Strathclyde Cycle Campaign - for the Glasgow and Strathclyde area.
• Highland Cycle Campaign Get copies of their newsletter online by joining their emailing list.
• Midlothian Discussion list on cycling If you cycle in Midlothian please visit and contribute!
• Safe Routes Network - Lothian Safe Routes site

Local bike shop web sites:-

• Alpinebikes Based in Aberdeen, Glasgow as well as Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Bikes, spares, repairs and accessories.
• BG CYCLES AND BLADES Portobello
• Bicycle Works Cycle shop specialising in service and repairs but also selling helmets, lights and other accessories.
• Biketrax New bikes, spares, repairs, hire - hires bikes, tandems, trailers, trailer-bikes, child seats etc. (Also Everything Brompton the shop's specialist Brompton site)
• Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative - one of the biggest bike shop web sites in Europe. Has an online catalogue, up-to-date news on special offers and a good supply of cycle routes. Lots of links to cycle groups and manufacturers.
• Edinburgh Cycle Hire and Green machines Adult and child bikes. Hires bikes. Organises cycle tours, holidays and days out.
• Velo Ecosse Edinburgh bike shop

Other Scottish cycling sites:-

• Bespoke Highland Tours - self-led cycle packages
• BikeBus For information on island hopping, hire of the BikeBus, hiring bikes and lots of stuff about biking in Scotland.
• Caithness Cycling Clubs
• CTC Lothians District Association
• Cycle Routes - SE Scotland & NE England personal site of John Brewer
• Cycling around Glasgow - personal site
• Cycling by Design Scottish Executive Guidelines (pub. 12.99)
• Edinburgh Road Club - said to be fastest growing racing club in Scotland
• The Edinburgh to St Andrews Cycle Ride
• Great Currie Balerno Bike Ride - annual sponsored event on country lanes around Currie/Balerno
• North Sea Cycle Route A continuous (apart from the ferry links), signed route some 5500 kilometres long through Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
• Off Beat Bikes Fort William
• Pedal for Scotland Bike Ride - a new mass participation leisure ride between the two cities
• Rua Reidh Lighthouse Holidays includes a Wester Ross cycle tour
• Scottish Cycling Development Project - first annual report
• Scottish Cycling Events Calendar All sorts of cycling events - list compiled by Scottish Cycling Development Project
• Scottish Cyclists Union - the governing body for cycle sport in Scotland
• Velo-city 2001Edinburgh AND Glasgow host next year's International cycle planning conference

Edinburgh sites:-

• Braid Burn 2000 Project - campaign to improve walking and cycling provision in south Edinburgh. Also Campaign against building on Braid Burn route to Pentlands
• Broughton Spurtle Community Newspaper
• Bruntsfield.co.uk new website encouraging local shopping and bus and bike use.
• Capital Rail Action Group - campaigning for better public transport in and to Edinburgh.
• Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh - formerly part of Edinburgh University now an independent environmental "think tank". Good links to other environmental organisations
• City Cabs
• City Car Club - Edinburgh's celebrated car sharing project
• The City of Edinburgh Ranger Service
• Cockburn Association Edinburgh's 'civic trust'. Long established organisation which has always resisted undesirable developments.
• The Cruelty Free Guide to Edinburgh
• Edinburgh's Air Quality - from the Department of Public Health Sciences at Edinburgh University
• Edinburgh area cycle routes
• Edinburgh Butterfly & Insect World
• Edinburgh Evening News newspaper on line
• Edinburgh Inter Eco Net new site from Craigmillar Community Information Service with funding from CEC Local Agenda 21 fund
• Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board
• Edinburgh's many Festivals, International, Science, Film, Fringe, etc., etc.
• Edinburgh University Cycling Club
• Edweb - many Edinburgh links from tourist sites and restaurants to local businesses and community information
• Edinburgh Youth Social Inclusion Partnership
• Gorgie City Farm. Great web site for a great place to visit any day of the year. (There's even a cafe!)
• Greenpeace (Edinburgh) Local campaign group for Edinburgh
• Gyle Muir Sculpture Trail A project to highlight (and improve) walk/cycle links in the west Edinburgh area - especially with the opening of Edinburgh Park railway station (due next May)
• Edinburgh Guide local info and entertainment
• The Lothian and Edinburgh Action Research Network - aims to enhance the contribution of Lothian's universities to quality of life in the region.
• The Lord Provost's Commission on Sustainable Development for the City of Edinburgh 87 page report on the potential for Sustainable Development in Edinburgh
• Keep Meggetland Green Action Group
• New Edinburgh tramways web site
• Pilrig Residents Association wanting better conditions for pedestrians and cyclists
• James Thin - Thin's -150 year old bookshop(s) owned by SPOKES supporting cycling family
• Sciennes Primary School now has its own Safe Routes project pages
• Scottish Conservation Projects Edinburgh (SCP)
• South Edinburgh Echo new community newspaper
• The Stiels Interesting site of/for a housing development in Craiglockhart
• Trams for Edinburgh - designed to promote, inform and stimulate interest in the development of light rail
•  based transport solutions for the Edinburgh area.
• Transport Research Institute at Napier University
• Water of Leith Conservation Trust
• WaterofLeith.info Site about Water of Leith, Edinburgh's river

Lothian sites:-

• East Lothian Council - with transport information including a East Lothian Directory
• East of Scotland Water
• How to get to North Berwick
• LEEP - The Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership
• Lothian Buses
• Lothian Conservation Volunteers
• Lowland Narrowboats Ltd - Narrowboat hire (day or week) on the Union Canal
• midlothian.net
• Midlothian Cycle Strategy
• Penicuik - Network site for the town of Penicuik
• NAAG No Alignment Action Group - against the proposed new A701 in Midlothian
• walkingbus.org.uk A site with loads of details on setting up Walking buses as part of a Safe Routes to school project.
• West Lothian Council Home Page
• News of West Lothian 'Walking bus' scheme
• West Lothian SNP Transport Policy

 

• Latest Links added to this site
• Scottish cycle campaigns
• Local bike shop web sites
• Other Scottish cycling sites
• Edinburgh sites
• Lothian sites
• Other Scottish sites
• UK cycling sites
• Cycle Parking
• Other UK sites
• Home Zones
• Other sites

 

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