Edinburgh Festival of Cycling

Event Category: Free event

Join Women’s Cycle Forum Scotland, Cycling UK Scotland and adventure cyclist, writer and outdoor philosopher Kate Rawles for a cycle tour of Edinburgh with a difference. We’ll be riding and reading our way around the city, stopping to check out a couple of independent bookshops and attempting to squeeze in a cake stop too. The…

A Sunday in Hell For the 7th year running, Balerno Village Screen is partnering with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling to bring you a night of cycling related films. A Sunday in Hell is a Danish documentary film by Jørgen Leth about the 1976 Paris Roubaix road race over the cobbles of Northern France, the…

Edinburgh Belles on Bikes ride Join the Edinburgh Belles on Bikes for a 10-15 miles led ride around some of the fantastic off-road cycle paths and back roads Edinburgh has to offer. We’ll return to the start for lunch and/or cake. Belles on Bikes is a developing network of women’s cycling groups across Scotland. The…

Leith Festival Pageant 2019 For the second year Leith Festival (in association with the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling) invites cyclists to take part in its annual pageant, because everyone had such a great time in 2018. Focussing on the EH6 and EH7 postcodes, this pageant has been running for over a century – dressed up…

Edinburgh World Naked Bike Ride 2019 The event is intended to highlight the vulnerability of cyclists in traffic. Hence, the option of minimal clothing or nudity and why the event is held on public roads. A cyclist might as well be naked in traffic. It would be pointless to hold it other than on the…

ARION Project Unfortunately this talk has had to be cancelled, for technical reasons. The University of Liverpool Velocipede Team has once again set out to challenge itself by taking part in the incredibly ambitious project of breaking a land speed record for a human powered vehicle. ARION5 is the fifth iteration of the University of…

Edinburgh Festival of Cycling