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]
Mellow Velo – day and w’end trips with van hire or car share
CTC Lothians – local branch of UK Cyclists’ Touring Club
Hiring a bike or buying 2nd-hand
Cycling Edinburgh – has an excellent and regularly-updated list/commentary
Local recreational bike route guides
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
Bike Week Edinburgh – local BW events and how to set them up
CityCycling – Edinburgh based online cycling magazine
Greener Leith – sustainability group who do much to promote cycling
Local personal bike-special blogs – for the everyday cyclist
The ubiquitous blog – Kim Harding
Un vieux velo - “I have an old bicycle. It is ace.”
CyclinginEdinburgh – videos of silly driving and cycling, to encourage considerate road use
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
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']