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 […]
Spring onto your bike with our verdant rides
- Wednesday, 02 May 2018
It’s May and the days are getting longer and (hopefully) warmer. Enjoy the fresh air and scenery as we take you across the Nailsea Levels along cyclepaths, lanes and quiet roads to the Clevedon Riviera, along the Strawberry Line to a Community Café at Yatton Station and on a glorious loop of the beautiful Chew Valley […]
A saddlebag full of early Spring rides for March
- Sunday, 25 February 2018
We launch the new season with a public spirited foray into litter infested terrain to bring a bit of TLC to our much loved local cycling infrastructure under the council run Great Bristol Spring Clean. Meandering lanes and quiet cyclepaths take us through the flood plain of Severnvale and on to wonderful estuary views at […]
A feast of friendly mini-rides for February
- Thursday, 01 February 2018
As we edge slowly into the longer days we hasten the end of winter with a merry mix of short rides. We start with a regular favourite by heading off to nearby Portishead, with its modern marina and Edwardian townscape. From a north Bristol start point we track down some of South Gloucestershire’s less frequented […]
New Year Warmers
- Thursday, 04 January 2018
We have made up a delicious hot flask of cycle Rides to warm you through the cool days of January. An inciteful view of East Bristol through a whistle-stop tour of some highlights opens the New Year. A gentle and short ride out to the Community Farm in Lawrence Weston will give us a taste […]