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#ActiveTravel campaigners for safe #RoomToRide for all ages, abilities and types of bike in the city of York! Repost/quote not necessarily. endorsement 😉
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If you're a member you need to VOTE BY NOON FRIDAY 21 NOV! Check email for your ballot, voter guide, candidate biographies, statements, and photos, constitution changes.

Your ballot is unique to you. Any probs email at yorkcyclecampaign@gmail.com

Happy cycling 😉
Cartoon hand holding megaphone from which a speech bubble is saying 'vote!'
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Xmas Market!🎅
Don't get stuck in traffic or on a bus. Beat #BikeTheft park FREE by York Minster 😉

Encourage #ActiveTravel reduce traffic - staffed #BikeParking at York Minster Refectory

OPEN:
1600-1900
THU 13 NOV & FRI 14 NOV
1000-1700
SAT 15 NOV & SUN 16 NOV
SAT 22 NOV & SUN 23 NOV
vintage scene of a man and woman on a tandem in Victorian winter clothing with Xmas presents in their front basket and the man is holding one up. The women is holding a miniature Xmas tree. Text on the bottom reads York cycle Xmas market bike parking. The woman is saying, wunt that good, Fred? and he replies It were reight good, Sally
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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WIN £50 to spend at Cycle Heaven for the BEST-LIT BIKE!!
We hope you had a fabulous time if you joined us on the #GlowRide
We were SO excited we forgot 😏to choose a winner🏅 🚲🎉😱
DM us a photo [or post it in the comments on this photo on FB] and we'll choose a winner on FRI 31 OCT!!
Cyclists blurred as they pass and head onto millennium bridge in York as night falls. Their bikes are covered in different coloured lights. The sky is a dramatic dark blue and grey with black silhouettes of trees. The grass in the foreground is littered with fallen leaves and illuminated by the passing cyclists
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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✨GLOW RIDE✨
Ride starts 1830 York Barbican. Please follow marshal instructions, stay together in one 'bus', ride responsibly.
All riders should have lights, as legally required, and light yourselves up! We'll have some freebie stuff 😀
#RoomToGlow #RoomToRide #ActiveTravel #MassBikeRide #GlowRide
Route map
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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✨ York Barbican 18:15 for 1830 set-off #RightToGlow #GlowRide ✨🙌

For safer cycling at night, esp. for women.
Ride approx 40mins - route update soon!

AFTER RIDE:
Free bike marking
Best-lit bike judging for a £50 Cycle Heaven voucher!

#MyRideOurRight #CyclingUK #MassBikeRide #ActiveTravel
Let's glow! In glowing white letters above a women cyclist dressed in everyday winter weather clothes and across the middle the words 'it's Glow Ride time!'
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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✨ LESS THEN A WEEK TO GO until our #RightToGlow #GlowRide for safer cycling, esp. for women.

WED 22 OCT
📍 York Barbican
⏰ 1815 | Ride approx 30mins
🥳 BEST DRESSED BIKE £50 to spend at Cycle Heaven
.. other ride freebies! 🥳👏
📸 BEST PHOTO OP - check socials after!
#MyRideOurRight #CyclingUK
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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TONIGHT! Member's event at Cycle Heaven - an update from Kate Ravilious on City of York Council transport plans, and answering your questions about cycle policy in York and upcoming projects..
#ActiveTravel
Hundreds of bikes parked at Monks Cross Stadium on match day
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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In July this year, #York welcomed the #ActiveCity conference - people came from all over the country to share their experience and advice on making communities happier & healthier by prioritising walking & #cycling..

yorkcyclecampaign.bike/2025/07/14/a...

#ActiveTravel
Transport professionals and York Cycle members mingle at a pre-conference get together
October 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Join the #BikeBus movement!!

In this exciting online event we learn from the Green Schools Project and Sustrans about the benefits of Bike Buses for fun #ActiveTravel and #SafeRoutesToSchools
Perfect for anyone interested in promoting safe #SustainableTravel

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bike-buses...
September 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Could your school community start York’s first #BikeBus?

Many school communities are setting up BikeBuses, making the school run safer, healthy and more fun.
#ActiveTravel #SafeRoutesToSchool
yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk/event/travel...
photo of families paused on a bike bus ride with text inviting participation in an info zoom meeting 2nd October 1700-1800
September 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Spotted! At Fulford Show a group of residents making #York happier & healthier by encouraging people to cycle more! 😀
linktr.ee/yorkcycle
#ActiveTravel #YorkCycle #RoomToRide #SafeRoutesToSchool #Cycling #CyclingLife

Music: Stylish Funk
Musician: AlexGuz
August 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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JOIN US on #York's next #MassBikeRide
Assembly point: York Barbican 1815 WED 22 OCT - RIDE 1830

SIGN-UP + INFO: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/light-up-t...

Join and help us to light up the night!
#ActiveTravel #Cycling #BeBrightBeSeen #BeSafeBeSeen #MyRideOurRight
Promo poster for GLOW RIDE gives date and time details as per post text. Graphic is a laser light image of a bike on black background with social channel icons, York cycle logo and website address as per link in bio
August 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In Hull Road Park York for the family fun day today, chatting to cyclists about #BikeTheft in the area, and opportunities to connect with others in the cycling network in #York 😁
leaflets on a table and bikes parked up at stands right by it with tennis courts in the background
August 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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FRI 15 AUG 1000-1400 **BIKE MARKING** At the new Evans store get your bike added to Bike Register FREE.
Police forces all over the UK check the register to return lost/stolen bikes to their owners.
Evans bike shop in York shop frontage with a staff member posing and at the bottom a close up of a Bike Register sticker on a bike frame
August 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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#CycleToWorkDay tomorrow!
THU 7 AUGUST
Leave the traffic for dust, get some healthy exercise, take a green route and enjoy the natural world around you, reliably plan your commuting time, and save money! 😎
🚲🚲🚲
#ActiveTravel #Cycling
a young man and woman cycle down a riverside path in York on a sunny day, underneath trees. In the background more people walk and cycle
August 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This week the York Cycle Network [link in bio]Friday Ride paid a visit to the new road behind #York station - Have you seen it?
Safe #RoomToRide we can't wait to see it finished off! 😀 #ActiveTravel #YorkCycle #Cycling #CyclingLife
Music: Sunny
Musician: Ikson
July 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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With North Yorkshire Police, British Transport Police and City of York Council we're tackling #BikeTheft Like & follow our pages, see the new website for sessions where you can tell police your concerns, chat to us about cycling and get your bike marked..
yorkcyclecampaign.bike/secure-cycle...
Secure cycle York written in white on a mid blue background, with a graphic line white bike locked to a black Sheffield stands with a red d-lock in the bottom right hand corner
July 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A little quiz for #York cyclists this Sunday! Three different cycle route signs - but which one is the right one? 🤔 #ActiveTravel
Three different cycle route signs show different spelling for beningbrough/beninborough/benningborough
July 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Come and say hello this Saturday morning! We'll be up at Acomb library SAT 12 JULY with North Yorkshire Police for a bike security event 🙂
#ActiveTravel
Poster event 1000-1200 explore Acomb library, North Yorkshire police bike marking team inviting people to discuss crime prevention Saturday 12 July
July 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Amsterdam, Utrecht, Paris.. would you believe this is actually in #York 😃
Do you know where it is?
#ActiveTravel #YorkCycle #RoomToRide
photo of a road with a two way bike lane separated from the road by a planting strip and cleaned either sides of the road by trees
July 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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😃WOW!! What an amazing #MassBikeRide we had tonight! 🙌
THANK YOU to everyone who showed up, helped lead, organise, waited patiently for us, waved as we went by and blasted TUNES for the party atmosphere 🎶 Can't wait for the next one? We'll tell you when!
FOLLOW, LIKE, SHARE - 😉
#ActiveTravel
cyclists start moving toward Hungate Bridge from Phoenix Inn Walmgate Mass Bike ride pauses at York Minster by the Emperor Constantine statue cyclists crossing Millenium Bridge, as seen from the path by the bridge in the Rowntree Park side cyclists crossing Millenium Bridge, some already gathered on the other side
July 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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We had a great time at West Bank Park Summer Fair! If you missed us, our next event is #York 's biggest Mass Cycle Ride WED 2 JULY at Phoenix Inn opposite York Barbican 😃
Sign up: linktr.ee/yorkcycle
#ActiveTravel
Music: That Day
Musician: Jeff Kaale
June 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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See us today at West Bank Park in Acomb at the amazing Summer Fair! 1300-1600
York cycle gazebo set up with two chairs and a table of promo stuff
June 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Not long now! We keep banging on about it, but we don't want you to miss it! Get them bike bells ringing, horns sounding, let's show 'em how we do it York! 🙌🙌

WED 2 JULY 1815 starting from Phoenix Inn on George's St opposite York Barbican 😃
Sign-up link: linktr.ee/yorkcycle
Music: banda_los_gaujos
June 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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MASS BIKE RIDE - 25yrs of Millennium Bridge!!
🙌 1815 Wed 2 JULY - Outside Phoenix Inn, George Street 🙌

Sign up on Eventbrite essential -
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/millennium...
BRING THE PARTY
🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
MORE MARSHALS NEEDED 🙏 sign-up to ride and marshal's page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-millen...
June 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM