A 23 mile (approx.) gentle paced New Year Ride on Saturday January 4th from Coffee#1 Welsh Back, BS1 4AN, at the corner of Queen Square and Welsh Back. Other rides and events are on the Diary page on the website We will be meeting at 10-15am for a 10-30am departure. The route will head out […]
Climate Strike Critical Mass ride – Fri 20th Sept 6pm
- Friday, 13 September 2019
Whenever you or anyone else gets on a bike, you become part of the solution. Even if we’re just nipping to the shops or getting to work quickly. Sometimes it’s great to join with others as part of the change. That’s why Bristol Cycling Campaign has thousands of supporters, and why we support the monthly […]
Ride with us: Green Spaces of East Bristol
- Tuesday, 23 July 2019
When: Sunday 11th August. Meet at 10-30am for a 10-45am start Where: Start from Coffee#1 at 51 Welsh Back, BS1 4AN Distance: 18 miles Drinks or early lunch stop: Mario’s Café, central Stockwood The route heads out along the banks of the Floating Harbour to pick up the River Avon Trail. We take a very leisurely pace through […]
Let’s Ride Bristol 16 June 2019
- Sunday, 16 June 2019
We hope you enjoyed Let’s Ride, despite the occasional downpour. It was great to meet the visitors to our stall – thanks again to those who have joined. We didn’t have a card reader at the event but you can still become a member by visiting bristolcycling.org.uk/about-us/join. We’d also like to thank all those involved […]
Please spare an hour on our stand at Let’s Ride Sun 16th. June
- Thursday, 30 May 2019
On Sunday 16th. June, Bristol council are staging their “Let’s Ride” city-centre one-day cycling festival, whereby several city-centre roads around Millennium Square are opened exclusively to cyclists and pedestrians. The council have contracted the running of the event to British Cycling, who are sponsored by HSBC. This event used to be called “Bristol’s Biggest Bike […]
War memorials ride notes
- Monday, 12 November 2018
For those of you who enjoyed our recent Remembrance Day ride, and for anyone who would like to do this ride for themselves, please find a copy of the original notes from 2012 here: Memorial Ride 11Nov12
Not long till Cycle Sunday!
- Sunday, 09 September 2018
Bristol’s family-friendly Cycle Sunday event, which we are supporting, is back on Sunday 16 September, 10am to 2pm. Now in its fourth year, Cycle Sunday attracts up to three thousand participants. Its success has demonstrated the huge amount of interest in the Downs as location for bike riding especially for children, who need plenty of […]
Picnics, churches and open spaces
- Thursday, 23 August 2018
Bristol Cycling’s programme of rides this September has been designed to raise the spirits and keep us peddling into the crisp days of Autumn. And of course we’re joining the Carnivelo ride through Ashton Court to join the Cycle Sunday event on the Downs Please check out our What’s on page for more details and […]
Cycle Sunday 2018 – 16 September
- Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Cycle Sunday is a community led cycling event held on the Clifton Downs. It was started by a group of parents as a way of demonstrating to the Downs Committee the huge interest in opportunities for car-free cycling around the Downs. The events are very popular, with between two and three thousand people attending. The […]
Puxton Park ride map – Saturday 22 September 2018
- Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Please click on the link below to download a route map of the Pedalling Picnic ride: Puxton Route Plan-v3
Rides poster opportunity
- Saturday, 30 June 2018
Our beautifully designed rides poster needs some help! Have you a couple of hours to spare per month for some easy, desk-based homework to help with rides publicity? Want to hone your Word skills? In a few months the rides team will be losing the key input of Penny Partridge who has done a sterling […]
Fresh air and fun
- Tuesday, 26 June 2018
July’s rides programme is getting us out into the countryside to escape the din of city life for a few hours. We’re all over the place this month with a gentle jaunt to picnic in Portishead, some slightly more challenging rides that take us Sevenside and others with relaxing gardens as the destination. Please note […]
Bristol Cycling gives rolling feedback to Council
- Friday, 15 June 2018
Our Bike Week Space for Cycling ride on Thursday 14 June was a great success and it was a joy to celebrate the latest in cycling infrastructure while giving the Council constructive in-saddle feedback. More pictures on our Facebook page.
Bike Week gets off to a sunny start
- Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Our Green Spaces of East Bristol ride is the first of five daily rides for Bike Week. See more photos on our Facebook page. All our rides can be found on our What’s on page.
June is bike month
- Wednesday, 30 May 2018
With Bike Week 2018 taking place in the second week of June, we have a packed programme of rides across the whole month on something of a green theme as gardens, parks, open spaces, views and fountains make up the majority of our rides. The only exception is a nice full-on geek ride looking at […]