HSBC Breeze bike ride for women: Corstorphine to the Water of Leith Visitor Centre
HSBC Breeze bike ride for women: Corstorphine to the Water of Leith Visitor Centre HSBC Breeze is a programme of free, volunteer-led bike rides for women which runs across the UK. We aim to encourage and support more women to get on their bike and ride, or to ride more. Breeze rides are relaxed, friendly…
Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre open afternoon at Saughton Park
Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre open afternoon at Saughton Park A chance for anyone to come along to Saughton Park and find out more about the Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre, our cycles, our volunteers and how we support cycling for people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities. Free event
A Sunday in Hell
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 2019
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
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
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
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…
The World’s Fastest Handcyclists
The World’s Fastest Handcyclists Online tickets now closed, places still available on the door What do you do when you suddenly realise the day has come when you can no longer ride a bike? You keep on riding. Ten years ago, Ken Talbot was struck with a life changing neurological condition after a seemingly innocuous…
Karen Darke: Quest 79
Karen Darke: Quest 79 Online tickets now closed, further places available on the door. Karen is somewhat of an expert in overcoming challenges- she was a keen runner and mountaineer before becoming paralysed in a rock-climbing accident and has since pursued alternative ways to access the outdoors – most passionately, by hand-cycle. Currently, a full-time…
Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre – ride to Cramond for Ice Cream
Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre – ride to Cramond for Ice Cream Join the Edinburgh All-ability Bike Centre (ABC) for a relaxed ride along to Cramond Harbour for ice-cream in the sun (hopefully). All welcome to come along and see the routes the Edinburgh ABC uses around our base at Bangholm Outdoor Centre. Free Event