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Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social · Nov 12
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@edfoc.bsky.social Interestingly, the only European certified employer in Scotland seems to be Lloyds Bank
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Cycle-Friendly Employer Consortium www.ecf.com/en/community... The Cycle-Friendly Employer (CFE) Certification Framework establishes a European standard for bicycle-friendliness in the European workplace.
Cycle-Friendly Employer Consortium
The Cycle-Friendly Employer (CFE) Certification Framework establishes a European standard for bicycle-friendliness in the European workplace.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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European rail operators introduce common definition for a bicycle on international train services www.ecf.com/en/news/euro... European rail operators will remove any size and weight restrictions for regular bicycles on international train services
European rail operators introduce common definition for a bicycle on international train services
European rail operators introduce common definition for a bicycle on international train services
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December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in.

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Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, “super excited” to walk them around the city that’s too dangerous to ride in. HAMILTON, ON - The 8 and 10 year old children were ecstatic with their new bikes and “Cannot wait to walk them to school” They are hoping that on weekends their parents might drive them to the park to pedal around slowly on the multiuse path - “it would be nice to sit on the bike and ride it too, but I don’t wanna get my hopes up”
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Is bicycle lighting too bright? www.ecf.com/en/news/is-b...
Is bicycle lighting too bright?
Is bicycle lighting too bright?
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December 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) 2025: Shaping the road ahead www.ecf.com/en/news/2025...
2025: Shaping the road ahead
2025: Shaping the road ahead
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December 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The Path of Least Resistance www.sidetracked.com/the-path-of-... A Balkans Odyssey
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December 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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#BraidsEstate

👍 Council quite right to put this scheme on pause pending case against Cllrs Marie-Clair Munro (Con) & Neil Ross (LD)

It should then be scrapped, and traffic filters retained, to keep the quiet area for N-S *and* E-W 🚶👩‍🦼🚲 movement with no need for the controversial 🚲 lane

@edi.bike
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🇲🇦 Morocco… Beyond What You Hear | A Bicycle Journey Through the Draa Valley www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAPE...
🇲🇦 Morocco… Beyond What You Hear | A Bicycle Journey Through the Draa Valley
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December 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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We took a ride along Rose St to/from Tisos, during the busy festive shopping period 🧵

First up, we rode legally westward

# of 🚘 interactions: 3
# of 🚶‍♀️interactions: 0
total time: 1m38

Note, rat-running SUV, & 2x bona fida parcel delivery
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🚲 edi.bike | issue 123 | 15th Dec '25

Voi hire bikes expand southwards; BANZAI launch new cargo bike library hub; TRO Sub-committee meeting agenda and Rose Street contraflow objections; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

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#bikeSky #edinburgh
A large group of people in winter clothes, many in red santa hats, gather under bare trees in a green space next to some cream buildings. They are being addressed by a woman with long red hair while a man in green nearby waits to cut a green ribbon around a storage unit. There are cargo cycles parked in the foreground.
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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😍 Amazing scrap #bicycle #wheels in a #Durham street!

🙋 Available via #Leith artist @hannahayre.bsky.social

Wheels via @thebikestation.bsky.social & local shops

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Video clip - Installation of 75 scrap bike wheels,intricately woven through with UV reactive string, to form a lighting display over a street in Durham Video clip - people looking at the display Video clip - close-up of one of the wheels FluoreCycle, Commissioned by Artichoke, for Lumiere Light Festival, Durham FluoreCycle is a nostalgic and colourful love letter to cycling. This cheerful installation is constructed with UV reactive string, intricately woven through 75 scrap bike wheels, which were destined for the scrap yard. As an artist and cyclist, I invite you to walk amongst the mix of nostalgic and futuristic, fluorescent patterns and appreciate just how joyful and sustainable cycling can be. Each rim comes pre-punched with a ring of evenly spaced spoke holes (a gift from the manufacturing process), which is transformed into a framework for detailed UV thread patterns. Every wheel is stripped, cleaned, and re-threaded by hand. A process that turns a discarded object into a glowing ring of colour and light. All 75 designs are unique. FluoreCycle is now ready to tour and can be adapted and reconfigured for your site. Use my contact form to request a tour pack.
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The moment you've all been waiting for... The Bike Station Wrapped 2025!

A thread...

#SpotifyWrapped #2025Impact
Infographic imitating the design of Spotify wrapped. Text reads 'The Bike STation Wtrapped, a busy year of getting more people on bikes, for their health, their minds and the planet'
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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#cargobikes

👍 "...helping us teach the children about nature, their local environment and time outdoors"

😍 We helped #DunbarNursery get an #UrbanArrow

☝️ Above - See our #cargobike grants to local microbusinesses

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Picture of cargobike, with Spokes logo on the back Report from the nursery... Spokes granted Dunbar Nursery £2000 in 2025 towards the cost of an Urban Arrow (Family Next version) from Laidback Bikes in Edinburgh. This is their report on use of the cargobike for its first few months. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 2025 We opened our Outdoor Nursery in May 2025. We’ve been using a cargo bike as a key part of our outdoor activities. Thanks to the support from the Spokes grant, we were able to purchase our own cargo bike, which has completely transformed the way we travel with the children and how we use the outdoor spaces in our community. The bike has made it so much easier for us to take the children on regular outings—to the beach, local parks, woodlands, and other nearby nature spots. The large, secure seating area means we can transport the children comfortably and safely, and they absolutely love the experience of travelling by bike. It has opened up so many opportunities for outdoor learning, helping us teach the children about nature, their local environment, and the importance of spending time outdoors. Using the cargo bike has also become a big part of how we introduce the children to sustainable travel. They’re learning from a young age about greener ways of moving around, and it sparks great conversations about looking after the planet. The bike has genuinely widened what we’re able to do as a service—activities that once felt difficult or out of reach are now completely achievable. I’m extremely grateful to Spokes for the grant. We would never have been able to afford a cargo bike on our own, and it has made such a positive difference to our work and to the children’s experiences. Thank you so much for supporting us and helping make these opportunities possible. Picture of the cargobike in use
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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In November 2021, Edinburgh] Council agreed to a 30 per cent car kilometre reduction target by 2030 [https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s79518/8.2%20-%20Powers%20to%20reduce%20car%20use.pdf
Odd then that the number of residential parking permit have increased by nearly 10K since 2020 […]
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December 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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'Absolutely history-making' – How nine pro cyclists managed to tow a plane to take-off www.cyclingweekly.com/news/absolut... Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe riders lay down a staggering 6,500 watts in new stunt
'Absolutely history-making' – How nine pro cyclists managed to tow a plane to take-off
Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe riders lay down a staggering 6,500 watts in new stunt
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December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Fake Specialized products worth $1.1m seized in counterfeit goods bust www.bikeradar.com/news/aliexpr... Bootleg Tarmac frames and components, plus Pinarello, Cervélo, Cannondale and Trek products found totalling $1.6m
Fake Specialized products worth $1.1m seized in counterfeit goods bust  | BikeRadar
Bootleg Tarmac frames and components, plus Pinarello, Cervélo, Cannondale and Trek products found totalling $1.6m
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New BBB Signal Radar rear light works without a head unit www.bikeradar.com/news/bbb-sig... In-built speaker alerts you to approaching vehicles.

Is this something you would find useful? Or just annoying?
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In-built speaker alerts you to approaching vehicles
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December 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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👍 #Pennywell rbt to #GypsyBrae 🚲path officially opens soon

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Council leader's December report... Setting the standard for sustainable development Our ambitious plans to create a new coastal town at Granton Waterfront reached another key milestone last month with the publication of the business case for the next phase of the project. If approved, this will allow us to kick start £140 million worth of development, delivering 200 new homes for social rent and unlocking £150 million of private sector investment for 700 more. These investments will, of course, be crucial to our efforts to tackle the housing and climate emergencies – but this is about much more than just building houses. We want to make Granton a great place to live, one that is economically vibrant, where the community can grow and thrive and people’s life chances are increased. That’s why our plans include shops and leisure facilities, as well as paths and cycle lanes to give people options for how they travel around the city. As I’ve covered in this report previously, a great deal of work has already begun or been completed with hundreds of families having moved in to the quality affordable homes we’ve built at Granton Station View and Western Villages. Earlier this year, Gasholder Park 1 opened following the successful £16 million restoration of the old gasworks and a new walking and cycling route linking Pennywell Roundabout and The Promenade at Gypsy Brae will open later this month. It’s important also that we celebrate the history of the area and protect its built heritage and I was pleased to announce funding of almost £3 million from the Heritage and Place Programme, which will allow us to restore Madelvic House, Granton Lighthouse, the Granton Station building platforms and Granton Castle Walled Garden. Edinburgh faces many challenges but our work in Granton is providing us with an opportunity to address these head on, and in a way that will have a significant impact on the people who live and work there now, as well as those who will move ther… Spokes Edinburgh map extract showing route along Marine Drive and West Shore Road Edin Reporter article prior to construction... https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2023/10/work-on-new-active-travel-route-begins/ This is part of the Western Villages Development on Granton Waterfront and the project includes a fully segregated cycle route, pedestrian facilities including new footways and pedestrian connections, landscaping improvements and upgrades to the boundary of Forthquarter Park with West Shore Road. No traffic restrictions will be introduced as a result of the work. The active travel route will link in with significant future improvements such as North Edinburgh Active Travel Connections and active travel as part of the regeneration of Granton Waterfront to create a comprehensive and coherent active travel network for journeys to and around Granton Waterfront. Alongside these active travel improvements the regeneration of Granton Waterfront will also see enhanced public transport through improved bus connections and the ongoing investigation of a Mass Rapid Transit route linking Granton to the Bio-Quarter as discussed at Council in February, as well as an extensive offering of car club vehicles and a mobility hub providing a number of shared mobility options close to public transport routes. This will ensure that residents and visitors can travel to and from Granton Waterfront from neighbouring communities and other areas of the city as sustainably as possible. Sustrans have funded the project with a contribution to the design phase of £39,913, followed by two contributions, the first for 2023/24 of £588,000 and the second for 2024/25 estimated to be around £396,900. Cllr Scott Arthur, Transport and Environment Convener, said: “This is an exciting moment and forms part of the major regeneration of Granton Waterfront. Central to this, and the forthcoming Western Villages development, is improved connectivity and better active travel links, supporting our wider ambitions to achieve net zero by 2030. “Once complete, the improved route wil…
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Picking up a Christmas tree?

The free-to-hire SW20 community eCargobike has you covered.

#Christmas #Edinburgh #bikelife #quaxing
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Oh yes. It’s been used for that several times.

Plus we have a trailer for massive trees.

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December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Volunteers and cargo trikes from @portyenergy.bsky.social's bike library out delivering some @bethanychristiantrust.com Caring Christmas Trees in Porty yesterday
#treebybike
Three cargo trikes in line abreast, loaded with a wrapped Christmas tree each to be delivered. Each trike is piloted by a smiling rider, and two of the three also have a young passenger.
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🚲 edi.bike | issue 122 | 8th Dec '25

Hire bikes in cycle parking update: Our conversation with Voi; Trans Solidarity Rides; Spokes’ December Action Update; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

https://buttondown.com/edi.bike/archive/edibike-issue-122-8th-dec-25

#bikeSky #edinburgh
In the light grey back slabs of a stone seating area, we can make out the silhouette of a bicycle carved into the stone - marking out the space for train station cycle parking behind the benches, in which we can see numerous cycles parked on elevated stands, and sandstone tenements beyond.
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Don't let winter ruin your mountain biking – read this guide for what to wear, how to prep and where to ride www.bikeradar.com/features/win...
Complete guide to winter mountain biking: what to wear & where to ride
Our top tips on mountain bike kit, setup and riding for winter
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December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Darkest North www.sidetracked.com/darkest-north/
Bikepacking 1,400km through the Arctic Night
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December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Jenny Graham: Cycling Solo Across the World meanderapparel.com/blogs/magazi...
Jenny Graham: Cycling Solo Across the World
Jenny Graham is one of those rare people whose life seems carved from grit, curiosity, and the wild spaces she grew up in. Raised in the Highlands of Scotland, she didn’t discover sport until her twen...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM