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Wee Spoke Hub
@weespokehub.bsky.social
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We are a friendly bike shop and community bike workshop space 🚲
We are also a branch of @SHRUBCoop ♻️
13 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom EH1 1JG
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🎦 Do _you_ and your bike 🚲want to be in the music video sequel to OUR STREETS?

The sequel is called _Amsterdam_ and it's being shot in #Dalry #Edinburgh today (Friday 19 Sept). 😊

Be at the Dalry Lidl car park in time for 16:45 to join the fun!

Our Streets video (3 mins):
youtu.be/qhtrIWBuoAg?...
A person with a bike, holding a sign that reads "Bikes are the answer". The person is standing beside a busy city street. The background shows old buildings (1890s), and an improbably blue sky.
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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To all our customers and supporters - this is what Guthrie Street #Edinburgh looks like today. 🤔

The only notice was this yellow sign, sorry we didn't know sooner! @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social the company who closed the street off appears to be Class One Traffic Management.
Guthrie Street with yellow sign saying ‘Road closed here from 0800 to 1700 on 13/09/25 for 2 days’. Blue cherry pucker in Guthrie Street, which had been closed.
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🚲🍂 Lots of cycling training dates for September! 🍂🚲

Book your tickets (link in bio)👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-spoke-hub-by-shrub-coop-76333207123

Cycling training levels:
🌱 Absolute beginners
🪴 Introduction to on-road cycling
🌳 Advanced on-road cycling

#Edinburgh #ActiveTravel #BikeRepair
September 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Vote to help us get funding!
🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm

So, how can I help?!
1️⃣ Join ECCAN for free www.eccan.scot/join-eccan
2️⃣ Vote for our project (A6) www.eccan.scot/greenlightvoting
3️⃣ Rank 3 projects in each category for your vote to count
4️⃣ Share this post with your community and relatives
Vote for our cycling project!🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm 🕚 Do you wish you could cycle to work? Know a someone who would try if they had a bit of support? Whoever is dreaming of that refreshing cycle commute, we will help make it happen! Next slide What’s in it for me? Our Commuter Bike Buddies and Buses project (CBBBs) will support you, your friends, and your colleagues to commute by bike, bringing communities together along the way. For those who cycle already - this will be a great opportunity to help others reach their goals, to get involved with your local community, and to show support for safer cycling infrastructure. 🚲The impact - Direct reductions in transport emissions - Creating community activity around pro-environmental behaviour - Generating wider interest in active travel Next slide So, how can I help?! 1️⃣ Join ECCAN for freewww.eccan.scot/join-eccan 2️⃣ Vote for our project (A6) www.eccan.scot/greenlightvoting 3️⃣ Rank 3 projects in each category for your vote to count 4️⃣ Share this post with your community and relatives 🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm 🕚 This is a Wee Spoke Hub and SHRUB Coop project. We are partnering with Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign, and Edi.Bike
August 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thanks for dropping by the #EdBookFest Repair Sheds to see us @mikebernerslee.bsky.social (A Climate of Truth) who cycled up to #Edinburgh on a beautiful Grompton, aka gravel @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social 🚲🌍😍.

Mike’s talk: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Two books authored by Mike Berners-Lee: A Climate of Truth and How Bad are Bananas.
August 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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We’re back at #edbookfest #repair #Edinburgh until 3:30pm Sunday 17th! Bring your bike for a free safety check, and today only 📣 claim a free 🚲 gift card when you visit us to learn to fix an inner tube. What’s not to like. 😃📚Repair Sheds schedule here:
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Edinburgh Book Festival Repair Sheds with bicycles-down in foreground. Wee Spoke Hub gift cards next to Edinburgh Book Festival programme booklets. Two people seated, fixing a bicycle wheel.
August 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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We’re ready for you #Edinburgh. Already having fun fixing inner tubes. Such a useful skill! See you at #edbookfest Repair Shed today.
Repair Shed at Edinburgh Book Festival occupied by Wee Spoke Hub Sunday 10th August 10:00-13:00. Bicycle gift cards next to inner tubes. Wee Spoke Hub volunteers fixing inner tubes.
August 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Good morning #Edinburgh! We’re at #edbookfest today, Sunday 10th 10am-1pm. 👋🏾 Join us to learn the lost art of inner tube repair. 🚲🛞 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Edinburgh Book Festival events book next to a potted plant. Wee Spoke Hub volunteer wearing a red Shrub re-use shirt with an Edinburgh Book Festival facilitator’s pass. Repair Shed schedule for 10 August 2025 showing Wee Spoke Hub on 10:00-13:00.
August 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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☀️ Lots of events planned at the @weespokehub this month! ☀️

Bookings 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-sp...

🛠️Swing by our shop Wednesday-Saturday 1pm-6pm to get your bike serviced or check out our refurbished bikes!🛠️

#QueerFriendly #BikeRepair #InclusiveCycling #DIYBikeRepair #EdinburghEvents
August events at the Wee Spoke Hub Sat 2 - Bike Cleaning and Oiling Tue 5 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary Thu 7 - Bike DIY Session Fri 8 - Advanced on-road cycling Following dates on next slide August events at the Wee Spoke Hub Sat 9 - Introduction to on-road cycling - So... you’ve bought a bike! Q&A with our mechanic - Bike Cleaning and Oiling Tue 12 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary Thu 14 - Bike DIY Session Previous dates on the previous slide. Following dates on the next slide. August events at the Wee Spoke Hub Fri 15 - Introduction to on-road cycling Sat 16 - Advanced on-road cycling - Bike Cleaning and Oiling Tue 19 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary Thu 21 - Bike DIY Session Previous dates on the previous slide. Following dates on the next slide. August events at the Wee Spoke Hub Sat 23 - Bike Cleaning and Oiling Tue 26 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary Thu 28 - Bike DIY Session Sat 30 - Puncture repair workshop - Bike Cleaning and Oiling Previous dates on the previous slide.
August 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Build confidence for cycling on the road! August cycle training slots in #Edinburgh now available at Wee Spoke Hub. 🚲 Book here: www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Cycle training poster, the text reads "Book now for August". Cycle training poster, the text reads "Advanced on-road cycling". Cycle training poster, the text reads "Introduction to on-road cycling".
July 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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One of the many benefits of working at the Wee Spoke Hub: you get to wrap up long-distance unicycles!

This lovely unicyclist (NL🇳🇱) had just cycled from #Aberdeen, and needed his #unicycle wrapped for the #Eurostar - for environmental reasons he doesn't want to fly @flightfreeuk.bsky.social
A unicyclist with a blue unicycle standing in front of the Wee Spoke Hub workshop. Zoomed-in view of the first photo. The same unicyclist (in front of the Wee Spoke Hub) with what is probably the same unicycle, completely wrapped up to the wrapping standard required by Eurostar. Zoomed-in view of the third photo.
July 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Look what just arrived at the Wee Spoke Hub! Stitch it, don’t ditch it. 📚🌍 We like bikes, but just for today, this is our favourite stock item. 😍 #repair #upcycle More on #EdinburghStreetStitchers here:
linktr.ee/stitchitdont...
Book called Stitch it, don’t ditch it available at Wee Spoke Hub. Authors Jeanna and Mary holding copies of their book: Stitch it, don’t ditch it. Wee Spoke Hub with the books in the entrance and a bicycle parked outside.
July 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Happiness is a coffee shop next to a bicycle shop. Welcome to Guthrie Street #Edinburgh, Longhope Coffee! Their coffee is excellent, pastries yum and service fantastic. ☕️🚲😃 Well worth a visit next time you bring your bicycle in for a service.
Open door to Longhope Coffee. Wee Spoke Hub with bicycle outside, next door to Longhope Coffee. Pastries in foreground with barista making coffee in the background. Flat white coffee and espresso, beautifully prepared.
July 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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☀️ This month again we’ll be there to help you level up your own cycling maintenance skills ☀️

Can't make it this month or tickets are sold out? Most of our events recur weekly or monthly, check out our Eventbrite for more dates and information! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-sp...
July events at Wee Spoke Hub - Thu 3: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session - Sat 5: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling - Thu 10: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session - Sat 12: learn & practise with the Puncture repair workshop - Sat 12: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling Sessions for women & non-binary will be back in August Next slide for following dates July events at Wee Spoke Hub - Thu 17: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session - Sat 19: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling - Thu 24: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session - Sat 26: Q&A with our mechanic with the So...you've bought a bike! - Sat 26: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling Sessions for women & non-binary will be back in August Previous slide for previous dates
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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To all our customers, volunteers, supporters, past and future:

Happy Pride, from all of us at Wee Spoke Hub. 🚲🏳️‍🌈
A cycle mechanic emerges from the door of the Wee Spoke Hub, Edinburgh's inclusive cycle workshop, test-riding a white Peugeot drop-bar bicycle. He is draped with a Pride flag, in the style of a Superman cape. More Pride flags are visible in the background - it could be that the photo is taken on Pride Weekend. The same photo, one second later. The cycle mechanic has now passed the front door of the Wee Spoke Hub, and is intently powering uphill. The same cycle mechanic with the Pride flag is cycling uphill around the lower corner in Guthrie Street, his Superman Pride cape aflutter. The cycle mechanic is now on the downhill leg of the test ride. He has the brakes in a death-grip, one can imagine the white knuckles - but the Pride cape is still streaming behind. The picture appears to be slightly speed-blurred.
June 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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We were privileged to do warranty repairs on this bad boy, a brand new Rayvolt Clubman e-bike. Now heavily modified, incl vintage license plates, headlamp, voltmeter(!), speedometer, valve caps, and fire extinguisher! 😍
E-bike system remains (of course) road-legal and safe.
Left view of a green e-bike, styled like a vintage motorcycle. The e-bike is modern, but the owner has added a lot of actual vintage motorcycle parts, in a stylistically consistent assembly. The bike is stood on a lawn, in a garden, resulting in a satisfying photographic composition. The same green e-bike, photographed in the same garden, from a top-left angle. The viewpoint is that of a tall person looking down on a standard-sized motorcycle; but the impression is given that the photographer is flying. The photographer is probably using magic. The same green e-bike, photographed outside the Wee Spoke Hub cycle workshop, with a rider. Unlike the other two photographs, this is clearly an amateur snapshot. The backdrop features graffiti-covered walls, and a green-lid on-street recycle bin. Also in shot is a blue tenement door with a string of keyboxes for short-term lets - at least six keyboxes are visible, with a suggestion of more out of sight.
June 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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This is Göttingen.
That's how you do sustainable transport, Edinburgh. 😍

We're looking forward to the day when Edinburgh looks like this - not least because of all the bike parking!
Photo taken from underneath a chestnut tree, of rows and rows and rows of parked bikes, packed fairly tightly. There could be over 300 bikes in the photo.
June 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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☀️Lots of events planned this month!☀️

We're trying something new: in June we'll have weekly women & non-binary Fix Your Own Bike workshops 🏳️‍⚧

🛠️Swing by our shop Wednesday-Saturday 1pm-6pm for all your bike servicing and repair needs!🛠️

#QueerFriendly #BikeRepair #ActiveTravel #Edinburgh
June events at Wee Spoke Hub image 1 out of 3 Tue 3rd Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed Thu 5th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed Sat 7th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed Tue 10th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed Following dates on next picture June events at Wee Spoke Hub image 2 out of 3 Thu 12th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed Sat 14th Q&A with our mechanic with So...you've bought a bike! - Ticketed Sat 14th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed Tue 17th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed Thu 19th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed Following dates on next picture June events at Wee Spoke Hub image 3 out of 3 Sat 21st Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed Tue 24th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed Thu 26th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed Sat 28th Learn & Practice with Puncture repair workshop - Ticketed Sat 28th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed Previous dates on previous picture
June 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Sometimes you do a double-take, and then it's really obvious. Spotted @weightogo.bsky.social on Leith Walk. ❤️
Poster on a refillery shop wall called Weigh to Go saying: “Lives don’t need more things. Things need more lives.” On the theme of reduce and reuse.
May 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Now that's how you use a cargo bike! That's seven(!) kids on the bike, and one standing alongside.

We love the Tern cargo bikes, not only for their versatility, but also - most of them you can store upright! 😳

We'd love to see your cargo bike photos, extreme or otherwise.
A man is riding a blue/green Tern cargo bike, in front of the Bodleian Libraries Shop. The bike is loaded, overloaded. One kid is standing alongside, and seven kids are in the bike, four behind the rider, and three in front. Emoji have been placed over the faces of all children who would otherwise be recognisable, to protect their privacy. The emoji do hide their infectiously delighted smiles.
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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You can never hold back spring🌷but if 🚲confidence is holding you back we’ve got your back. Ok so we stretched that 🌷lyric as far as it goes (sorry #TomWaits) but we do have fantastic adult cycle training! From absolute beginner to advanced on-road cycling. Book here:
www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Poster for adult cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for introduction to on-road cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for advanced on-road cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for absolute beginners cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub.
April 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Anybody missing a bicycle? Looks abandoned. It’s a Dawes Sonoran, on Ferry Road bike path Edinburgh, between Ainslie Park and Boswall Drive. Both rims very worn, wheels punctured. Rideable but probably not safe. Leaving here like a lucky early Easter egg. 🐣
Dawes Sonoran bicycle under a bicycle path sign. Bicycle, Dawes Sonoran.
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Our open workshops have a waiting list! How did that even happen? We love it when all our participants are women and minority genders!

There's more to this week's story, details in the thread...

www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Our basement yellow/green/red cycle workshop with a double workstand holding two bicycles. A woman in practical dungarees is working on one of the bikes, assisted by a bearded Wee Spoke Hub volunteer. A different view of the same scene, seconds later. We see only one of the bicycles (the white one), and the neatly wrapped brown bar tape is clearly visible.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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After a two-week pause, we’re excited that our Thursday evening Bike-DIY open workshops are back! …and already booked up for next week. 😅

This is the basement workshop, creatively named Primary Colours by our marvellous volunteers who run the sessions. Book here:
www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
A participant in a blue overall gives a cheerful thumbs-up to the camera. The primary colours and the wide angle draw in the viewer, and make the workshop seem like a wonderful place to be. A close-up of two pairs of hands adjusting the derailleur on a silver bicycle. A volunteer and a participant in a blue overall are working on a silver bicycle in a workstand. The workshop walls are painted yellow, green, red. A volunteer is assisting a participant to connect the bicycle chain. This is a different angle on the same cheerful workshop.
March 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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CBM @cargobikemovement.bsky.social Treasure Hunt!

It's Fun!
It's Awesome!
It's happening _right now!_
Head over to Tollcross, to the CBM Hub.

Supported by @thebikestation.bsky.social @pathsforall.bsky.social @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
(Sorry to obfuscate the clues, but...)
Cargo Bike Movement Treasure hunt instructions and map with clues blanked out.
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM