Local bike organisations
The Bike Station – recycling old bikes, adult training, workplace, community outreach, etc
Ageing Well – cycle skills courses for beginners age 50+
Edinburgh Guerrilla Cinema – exciting bike-powered carbon-neutral cinema project with young-person emphasis [volunteer helpers needed]
Local bike rides
Cycling Edinburgh – excellent pulling-together of all known local bike rides
Spokes Sunday rides – first Sunday of month, 30-40 miles
20-milers – monthly 20-mile ‘easyish’ bike rides
Try Cycling in Edinburgh – monthly very easy rides [currently suspended, but there are often some 'very easy' rides advertised on Cycling Edinburgh above]
Mellow Velo – day and w’end trips with van hire or car share
CTC Lothians – local branch of UK Cyclists’ Touring Club
Edinburgh Critical Mass - informal group riding together in traffic, last Friday each month, to make a point
Hiring a bike or buying 2nd-hand
Cycling Edinburgh – has an excellent and regularly-updated list/commentary
Local recreational bike routes
My Favourite Bike Ride - see our 2005 Spokes competition [some of the other comps may also give you ideas]
Weans on Wheels - routes suitable with young kids [and a blog]
Informed Edinburgh – links to maps and some routes
Local bike news, blogs, etc
CyclingEdinburgh.info – local activities & possibilities – personal site by chdot
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum – discussion forum on local cycling issues
CityCycling – Edinburgh based online cycling magazine
Greener Leith – sustainability group who do much to promote cycling
Innertube - blog by the Innertube Map
Local personal bike-special blogs – for the everyday cyclist
The ubiquitous blog – “For me the bicycle has always been about transport and freedom”
Un vieux velo - “I have an old bicycle. It is ace.”
Coastrider East Lothian- Featuring Pugsley bike with massive tyres
Dead Dog Blog - by a “middle aged, technically incompetent mum” – also ridiculously modest!
DaveMcCraw - “I have an unhealthy interest in urban transport / bike safety / traffic psychology”
Spokes advertisers
These organisations support Spokes by advertising in the Spokes Bulletin regularly or from time to time.
Edinburgh Bicycle – Edinburgh Bike Co-op [now operating in several cities] has advertised in every available Spokes Bulletin since Spokes began in 1977! – the same year that EBC was founded, then known as Recycles.
Laid Back Bikes – Spokes member David Gardiner runs recumbent bike rides and sells recumbents and other specialised bikes.
Storybikes – ‘Journey by bicycle through lore and landscape.’
ScotRail – No one is perfect, but ScotRail is one of the UK’s top bike-rail providers and has worked closely with Spokes on various projects.
SEStran – South East Scotland Transport Partnership – also organises 2 mass cycle rides each year, including ’2 Capitals, Dunfermline to Edinburgh.’
Bicycle Legal – legal advice on compensation in bike crashes
Thompsons Scotland – legal advice on compensation in bike crashes
Other Edinburgh/Lothians bike shops
See also our page of bike-related businesses other than bike shops
Bike shops – Edinburgh, Lothians, and nearby [pdf 216k] If you know of updates to this list please email spokes – some may not have been checked for several years!
Map of Edinburgh bike shops [link]. Click on the shop symbol or name for more info. Thanks to Sue McKichan, a volunteer on the Bike Station‘s Inner Tube map project.
Webcams – spot the cyclist??
Edinburgh Princes Street [it's not on Princes St all the time]
Linlithgow Cross [select 'High Street East']
Linlithgow canal [select 'Looking North']