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Celebrate Aberdeen Parade 2026
Aug 30, 2026 · original
Several cycle forum members participated in the Celebrate Aberdeen parade yesterday. It’s a fun, social event as the pace is so slow you can easily to chat to fellow cyclists on the way. We often go for a bite to eat afterwards. It’s nice to see so many happy, smiling people in the city centre, all there to celebrate our wonderful city. The whole event is quite uplifting and Aberdeen Cycle Forum is proud to be part of it. Big thanks to Francesco who organises it for us. We’ll be there again next year so if you missed it this time please come and join us then.
Farewell, Katy
Aug 23, 2026 · original
Earlier this month several cycle forum members got together for a ride followed by coffee to say a fond farewell to Katy Hardacre, who has left Aberdeen. Katy has been a member of Aberdeen Cycle Forum since the early 2000s, becoming particularly active in the last two years when she stepped up as Cycle Forum Secretary. Never afraid to speak up and champion the cycling cause, Katy was a strong, articulate advocate in council meetings, challenging the status quo and pushing for meaningful change. She was a force to be reckoned with! Beyond administrative leadership and battling with politicians, Katy attended Pedal on Parliament 2026 in Edinburgh, the Cycling Scotland Conference , Celebrate Aberdeen and Aberdeen City’s Glow Ride, a night-time campaign calling for better cycling conditions for women and girls. Katy’s departure is a big loss for us and we will miss her dreadfully but of cour
Pedal on Parliament 2026
Jun 1, 2026 · original
Over a thousand cyclists from all over Scotland gathered in Edinburgh on Saturday to call for safer streets for cycling and walking. This 14 th Pedal on Parliament (PoP) was seeking decisive moves in favour of active travel from all levels of government. With ongoing roadworks for Union St Central scuppering Aberdeen Cycle Forum’s normal “pop-up PoP” event, I travelled to the capital to show our support. Assembling on the meadows It felt incredible to join the throng pedalling the closed-road route from the Meadows to Holyrood. The sound of bicycle bells filled the air on the Royal Mile. One piper even played “Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do” as we passed. The children who joined the ride seemed to particularly enjoy the singing, chanting, smiling and waving – not to mention the VIP treatment of a bike-mounted police escort. The foot of the Royal Mile (Photo credit Andy Catlin) Poli
Voi bikes have come to Aberdeen
May 22, 2026 · original
Aberdeen has a new e-bike hire scheme which launched in the city on Wednesday with 100 bikes positioned in various locations around town. They will be adding more bikes over the coming weeks with the plan to eventually have 350 out for hire. Today they had an official launch event at Duthie Park to raise awareness of the bikes and let people try them out which I was only too happy to do. They were even giving out free collapsible helmets. How cool are these? I took one for a test spin. It’s very easy to do. You install the app on your phone then scan a QR code on the bike to start the hire. That’s pretty much it. The bikes have no gears and no settings for the electric assist. All you have to do is sit on the bike and pedal. The electric assist works up until 25km/h when it cuts out. I found it incredibly fast and powerful. I cycled up Polmuir Road and Crown Street to see how it would ha
The April 2026 litter haul
Apr 12, 2026 · original
About a dozen Aberdeen Cycle Forum members and friends gathered along the banks of the Dee this afternoon to pick up litter. Here’s what we found: a shopping trolley, a set of keys on a lanyard, road signs, socks, underpants, about 50 empty bottles of vodka, lots of plastic wrappers, hundreds of pieces of polystyrene and £20. Not everyone made it into this next photo as some had already left and some were also dedicated pickers who didn’t rest even for a two-minute photo. What I have learnt – aside from the fact someone is drinking themselves to death with vodka and throwing the empties in the river – is that there are a lots of lovely, friendly people willing to give up their time picking up rubbish to keep our city looking beautiful and that’s something to be very thankful for. Thank you to everyone who came along.
Litter pick Sunday 12th April at 1pm
Apr 5, 2026 · original
Aberdeen Cycle Forum is having our annual litter pick on Sunday 12th April at 1pm on Riverside Drive near the BP service station and The Queen Elizabeth Bridge. We’re doing the south bank of the river this time starting opposite the boat sheds. See the map below and street view for the meeting point. We’ll provide all the bags and litter pickers. Please come along. Everyone is welcome!
Spotlight on a cyclist – Alan Irving
Oct 7, 2025 · original
What is your name, where are you from and how long have you been in Aberdeen (if not local)? I’m Alan, I had a somewhat nomadic upbringing but I’ve been in Aberdeen off and on for (yikes) twenty-five years. I currently work in Stavanger (Norway) and travel home every weekend or two. How did you get into cycling? As a child of the 1980s, I had (and outgrew) a Raleigh Chopper, Mag Burner (BMX), Peugeot racer, then a steel mountain bike which I still own. I fell out of the habit at university in Edinburgh and London, but fell back in thanks to keen work colleagues – first mountain biking and orienteering in Scotland, then road cycling when we lived in Pau, southwest France, for five years. What kind of cycling do you do? A bit of everything, although I undoubtedly spend as much time fixing bikes as riding them. My favourite sort of ride is mixed terrain: quiet roads, lanes, woods, nature…of
Cycling Scotland Conference
Sep 17, 2025 · original
Last week four of us from Aberdeen Cycle Forum attended the annual Cycling Scotland conference, which was taking place in Dundee. It feels to many of us that Aberdeen is falling behind other cities in providing safe, attractive cycle infrastructure that really encourages more people to cycle as part of their everyday lives. Why is that? Why are Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow pushing ahead, not just delivering schemes now but showing hugely ambitious plans for the future? We hoped to learn some answers. Here’s what we thought: Alistair: We heard a wide range of views on cycling infrastructure from “build it and they will come” to the challenge of balancing budgets at national and local level – and that was just the keynote speech from the Transport minister. It’s obviously a subject that should be getting the right level of attention with a vision in mind, not just be an afterthought. I wa
Celebrate Aberdeen parade
Aug 24, 2025 · original
We enjoyed participating in the Celebrate Aberdeen parade yesterday alongside hundreds of other local groups and organisations. It was a fine day: not too hot, not too cold and everyone marched with much merriment from Albyn Place to Marischal College behind a terrific pipe band. This is the first year Aberdeen Cycle Forum has participated in the event. I’m sure we’ll do it again next year so if you missed out this time please join us next year.
Litter gone and the Celebrate Aberdeen parade
Aug 17, 2025 · original
We had a very successful litter pick along the River Dee yesterday. Thank you to all the volunteers and to Aberdeen City Council for providing the pickers, bags and for taking the rubbish away. Next year we’ll do it in early spring before all the vegetation has grown as some of us had unpleasant encounters with stinging nettle and bramble. Next Saturday we’re joining the Celebrate Aberdeen parade so please come along to that if you can. The meeting point is Albyn Place from 10:20am onwards with the parade starting at 11am. It’s in alphabetical order so we’ll be near the front.

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