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SkyRide in Leicester

Saturday, 30 July 2011 17:07

Canal and Railway Ride - 31st July: http://www.goskyride.com/Search/Details?eventid=1310
These Skyrides look great, but there are none in Nottingham unfortunately
The area's hosting a range of activities including Sky Ride Local rides and bike maintenance workshops to help you keep your wheels in great shape. And look out for Breeze bike rides – fun, social, informal bike rides for women, coming to a park or cycle path near you!

Main Event: Leicester is part of the Sky Ride campaign, aiming to get one million more people riding a bike by 2013. Sky Ride Leicester, a mass participation, traffic-free bike ride, takes place on 28th August – don't miss it – see details below!

http://www.goskyride.com/Leicester

We’re giving you the unique opportunity to ride your bike through the city's streets without a car in sight. It’s free and easy to register and anyone can get involved, no matter how wobbly you might be on a bike!

New Critical Mass in Nottingham (Cycling)

Monday, 25 July 2011 06:55

Seen on Facebook last week: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=233720509994966

Victoria Centre Clock Tower - Friday, July 29 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Also Veggies: http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=213

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world. It is typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities
The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city or town streets on bikes.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass

Cycle Training

Thursday, 09 June 2011 09:16

Ridewise: http://www.ridewise.org.uk/

We are hoping that Pedals.org.uk are going to maintain a Cycle Training area on their excellent website

Cycle Clubs:

Beeston: http://beestoncc.myfreeforum.org/index.html

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Cycling is Good !

Pedals are the big Cycling organisation in Nottingham: Goto Pedals Website...
Facebook: Pedals on Facebook...
Main Event: There will be a Great Notts Bike Ride in June. Other Cycling Links in our Database...
Latest: Carnival of Cycling - sat 18th June...

Promotional Videos:

And here's someone taking the mickey:

For other Cycling Websites / Facebook Pages see: Other Cycling Links in our Database...

Guardian Bike Blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog

Added: 25/04/2011

How to use Traveline / TransportDirect / Cyclestreets to plan a Safer Cycle Journey

Main Link: http://www.traveline.org.uk/
Watch our very own Youtube Video:
See at 3mins40 for how it can plan routes using cycle paths / alleyways to avoid busy roads
To see what is going on in the video better - right-click on the video and select 'Watch on Youtube', where it is bigger, or you can make it go Fullscreen.

To use Traveline, goto Main Link: Traveline East Midlands Website

The Transport Direct Route Planner (click here) is more advanced for quietest / quickest route options, but can appear more complicated, so try Traveline first to get the idea
This Wikipedia article on Transport Direct(click here) explains the huge operation behind creating the datasets for these systems

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