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We are a friendly bike shop and community bike workshop space 🚲 We are also a branch of @SHRUBCoop ♻️ 13 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom EH1 1JG linkin.bio/weespokehub

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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🍃SHRUB members and supporters🍃 👥 Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) ⏰ Friday 19th June - 18:15 - 20:00 🎟 RSVP forms.gle/x9NouEasCE9g... If you are interested in the trustee's position please do let us know via email at trustees@shrubcoop.org In cooperation, The SHRUB trustees
SHRUB EGM 2026
All members & supporters are invited for a general update on SHRUB Coop's activities
Friday 19th June  18:15 - 20:00

Join in person or online

Next image : What is it aboutWhat’s the meeting about?
The EGM is a chance to…
 
- Get updates on our work and the current state of SHRUB, including an interim financial report
- Ask questions and bring ideas forward
- Confirm new trustee’s appointment

We are still open to new nominations for trustees, so if you are interested in the position please do let us know via email at trustees@shrubcoop.org

Next image: who can joinWho can join?
To attend the EGM you must be part of one of 
these categories:
- SHRUB staff 
- SHRUB volunteers who have completed a shift in the last 4 months
- Anyone with an active paid SHRUB membership e.g. 12 or 6 months membership

We will consider anyone who has purchased a membership or volunteered for a shift anytime before the official start of the EGM, so if you are interested in voting you can purchase a membership on our website, or if you are an inactive volunteer do sign up for a shift with your group in the next fortnight!

Next image: Where will it beWhere will the meeting take place?
The meeting will be hybrid:
 
- In-person at Paterson's Land, Room 1.19 
11-37 Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ
- Online; we will share the joining link in the days before the EGM

We acknowledge that this location might not be accessible to everyone due to the lack of transport links. We are happy to take suggestions for alternative venues for future events.

Please register in advance (see details in this post’s description)
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Pedal on Parliament #pop26 @pedalonparliament.org · 03/06/2026
Happy world bicycle day! Here's 'Amsterdam', a brand new tune out today by Edinburgh-based cyclist and musician @danabrahamsmusic.bsky.social 🎶 youtu.be/nTma5W3P-ps
youtu.be
Dan Abrahams // AMSTERDAM
YouTube video by Dan Abrahams
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
a poster advertising the April Critical Mass ride around Gorgie
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Our soul siblings Dynamo CIC over in Glasgow are in the news❣️ #queer #cycling #govanhill www.huckmag.com/article/dyna...
Staff and volunteers of Dynamo CIC in a cycle workshop, facing the camera. Incudes one Wee Spoke Hub volunteer.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We are open today (Friday 3rd April) 13:00-18:00. If you’re out wheeling with a puncture or a creak or broken bit, pop in and say hello! We’re accepting bicycles for repair and will not say no to surplus chocolate in any form. 🐰🦽🐣🚲 📍 Where to find us: 13 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A graphic advertising the Critical Mass ride on the 28th February
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our friends Dynamo CIC over in #Govanhill #Glasgow are hosting their first Open Workshop this Saturday 7th February! dynamocic.org/events We're super excited for them - watch this space.
Logo for Dynamo: a new, queer-led, feminist cycling and maintenance project in Glasgow.
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Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A shorter ride through the New Town this month. Beat the January blues and ride with us for safer streets!
Edinburgh Critical Mass
New Town Trail
2pm Saturday 31st January
Middle Meadow Walk
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Pedal on Parliament is back! Sat 30th May 2026. A mass ride from Middle Meadow Walk #Edinburgh to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, starting from 11:30.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🎁🚲Gift Sustainability & Health!🎄✨ Wee Spoke Hub vouchers support: 🌱Sustainable living 💪Healthy, active lifestyles 🔧Cycle or wheelchair maintenance 🔹£25 & £50 options 🔹Valid 6 months 🔹Use on repairs, accessories, refurbished bikes 🚴‍♂️ 🛒📍13 Guthrie Street, #Edinburgh or email weespokehub@shrubcoop.org
Ornament of Santa on a bicycle next to a sticker quoting ‘riding for people and planet’ on a sparkly backdrop (from glitter card rescued from a public bin, of course).
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 27/11/2025
Sat 29 Nov, 3-4pm #TheCausey Free ☕ + check your 🚲 by @weespokehub.bsky.social Also @edcriticalmass.bsky.social ride ends there (meet 2pm Middle Meadow Walk) @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @steveamburgess.bsky.social @simitakumar.bsky.social @edoldtowncoco.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social
Poster by The Causey about free bike maintenance Sat 29 Nov, 3-4pmMap of Critical Mass ride, Meadows to The Causey via city centreMap showing the Causey location, West Crosscauseway
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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 16/11/2025
#Tram consultation - Spokes submission --> www.spokes.org.uk/wp-content/u... 🙋 You have till midnight Monday for your own response! HERE--> consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/sfc/tram-nor... @edi.bike @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social
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Tram, Granton to Bioquarter consultation
Spokes Planning Group response, November 2025
1. Introduction
Spokes has the objective of promoting cycling as part of an overall sustainable transport and access
strategy. As such, we support a growing tram system for Edinburgh, provided cycling is well catered for in
the project design and operation.
The aim of the tram is to reduce car traffic, and to head off potential traffic growth in development areas
such as Granton and the Bioquarter. If successful, this is a huge benefit to walking and cycling, as well as its
benefits in terms of congestion, public health and climate. However, the project should be accompanied
by complementary measures to further encourage use of public transport and active travel, for example
bus gates, traffic filters, and, notably, congestion charging. It is well established that traffic reduction is best
achieved by a carrot/stick combination.
The tram project must support and promote active travel as a whole, and cycling in particular, and must not
introduce additional dangers without effective mitigation. The Council has ambitious targets to increase
cycle use, much of which must come from novice and inexperienced cyclists, as well as visitors and locals
using an expanding bike hire scheme. As such it is essential that there is a safe, comprehensive and
connected bike network of segregated bike lanes and low-traffic areas, easy and safe to use by anybody,
and with any kind of cycles - including cargobikes, adapted bikes, hire bikes, etc.
Introducing the tram should be seen and planned from the outset as an integrated sustainable transport
place making project, not a tram-only project into which cycling and walking have to be slotted in once all
the tramline decisions are taken as happened with tramline 1 and to a considerable (though lesser) extent
in the Newhaven extension.The Bridges corridor is hugely problematic..

8. City Centre to Bioquarter
Top issues
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The section through North and South Bridges is of extreme concern to Spokes, with no cycle provision, new tramlines and continued through traffic on a road where width is at a premium. This is making cycling provision far worse than in the current bus lanes. The project should include a bus gate / modal filter (as was planned, though never implemented, as part of the Spaces for People proposals ) potentially single track sections (like at Roseburn) and fully segregated cycle provision, or consideration to tram tracks on one side of the road and a bidirectional bike path on the other. For the reasons in the following two bullet points, many cyclists will continue to use this corridor - our above section on Bikes and Tramlines notes that Princes Street as a good example of this, with many choosing not to use the quieter George Street when it is less direct or lacks desired destinations. Thus cycling conditions must be safe.
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Whilst alternative north-south routes for cycles are proposed in the consultation, these would not suit all journeys, with many cyclists using the Bridges to travel between South Edinburgh and Leith given the more suitable gradient and directness than the Mound. And whilst there is a brief reference to the proposed Meadows to George Street route on the west side of the Bridges, there is no reference to the east side, where the Mobility Plan suggests a new active travel bridge connecting from the Old Town to Leith Walk. Such projects must be an integral part of the tram project provision including during the construction phase, also providing a permanent legacy of improved provision once finished.
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The Bridges corridor is a major residential, shopping and destinations location, and many cyclists use it for that reason; indeed many live along or just off the corridor. Routes via the Mound or Pleasance are irrelevant as alternatives for these categories of user.…linking the North Ed Network to the new canal path without descending and re-ascending - a transformative opportunity - diagram.

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Connecting Roseburn to the new Canal link path - The sketch below shows a possible layout for this crucial linkage. The yellow dotted line shows a ramp down to Russell Road, but this is possibly optional if it would cause engineering difficulties, given that most people will stay at high level, whilst those needing to descend or ascend could do so at Roseburn or at the nearby ramp to the new canal path. Finally, we understand that earlier discussions with Network Rail did not meet objections to a bridge provided that all necessary clearances are achieved.Picture of single-track shopping-street tram in Amsterdam
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Thanks @edcriticalmass.bsky.social! It took us about 20 mins to respond to the #Edinburgh #tram consultation. Roseburn Path guidance was helpful: www.savetheroseburnpath.com/consultation...
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Thanks for these #tram #consultation link reminders @drmhartl.bsky.social. Deadline to respond: Monday 17 November - that’s tomorrow! 😬 www.savetheroseburnpath.com/consultation...
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
So much fun to be part of this ride! 💡🚲🌟 Thanks @infrasisters.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @andycatlin.com 😃
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
So happy to support @infrasisters.bsky.social Our Streets, Our Nights! Friday 24th October 7:30pm meet at Middle Meadow Walk #Edinburgh 🚲✨Light up your bike (and yourself!) and join a leisurely ride around the centre of Edinburgh. More here: www.infrasisters.org.uk/post/our-str...
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🎦 Do _you_ and your bike 🚲want to be in the music video sequel to OUR STREETS? The sequel is called _Amsterdam_ and it's being shot in #Dalry #Edinburgh today (Friday 19 Sept). 😊 Be at the Dalry Lidl car park in time for 16:45 to join the fun! Our Streets video (3 mins): youtu.be/qhtrIWBuoAg?...
A person with a bike, holding a sign that reads "Bikes are the answer". The person is standing beside a busy city street. The background shows old buildings (1890s), and an improbably blue sky.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
To all our customers and supporters - this is what Guthrie Street #Edinburgh looks like today. 🤔 The only notice was this yellow sign, sorry we didn't know sooner! @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social the company who closed the street off appears to be Class One Traffic Management.
Guthrie Street with yellow sign saying ‘Road closed here from 0800 to 1700 on 13/09/25 for 2 days’.Blue cherry pucker in Guthrie Street, which had been closed.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚲🍂 Lots of cycling training dates for September! 🍂🚲 Book your tickets (link in bio)👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-spoke-hub-by-shrub-coop-76333207123 Cycling training levels: 🌱 Absolute beginners 🪴 Introduction to on-road cycling 🌳 Advanced on-road cycling #Edinburgh #ActiveTravel #BikeRepair
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Do you wish you could cycle to work? We will help make it happen! #Edinburgh #Scotland #BikeBuses #BikeBuddies #CommuteByBike #CommuterBikeBuddiesAndBuses #EverydayCycling #GetOnYourBike #ActiveTravel #CyclingCommunity #CyclingCommuter #InclusiveCycling #CyclingEdinburgh
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Vote to help us get funding! 🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm So, how can I help?! 1️⃣ Join ECCAN for free www.eccan.scot/join-eccan 2️⃣ Vote for our project (A6) www.eccan.scot/greenlightvoting 3️⃣ Rank 3 projects in each category for your vote to count 4️⃣ Share this post with your community and relatives
Vote for our cycling project!🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm 🕚 

Do you wish you could cycle to work? Know a someone who would try if they had a bit of support? Whoever is dreaming of that refreshing cycle commute, we will help make it happen!

Next slideWhat’s in it for me?

Our Commuter Bike Buddies and Buses project (CBBBs) will support you, your friends, and your colleagues to commute by bike, bringing communities together along the way.

For those who cycle already - this will be a great opportunity to help others reach their goals, to get involved with your local community, and to show support for safer cycling infrastructure.

🚲The impact
- Direct reductions in transport emissions
- Creating community activity around pro-environmental behaviour
- Generating wider interest in active travel

Next slideSo, how can I help?!

1️⃣ Join ECCAN for freewww.eccan.scot/join-eccan
2️⃣ Vote for our project (A6) www.eccan.scot/greenlightvoting
3️⃣ Rank 3 projects in each category for your vote to count
4️⃣ Share this post with your community and relatives

🕚 Voting closes Fri 29 Aug 5pm 🕚 

This is a Wee Spoke Hub and SHRUB Coop project. We are partnering with Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign, and Edi.Bike
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Want more cyclists? A re-velo-lution? Bike-Buses with 18 wheels? Wee Spoke Hub applied for ECCAN climate action funding, and YOU can vote. www.eccan.scot/join-eccan You have several votes, so you can... Vote for Wee Spoke Hub❣️ ... AND for some of the other (frankly awesome) projects out there.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We’re back at #edbookfest #repair #Edinburgh until 3:30pm Sunday 17th! Bring your bike for a free safety check, and today only 📣 claim a free 🚲 gift card when you visit us to learn to fix an inner tube. What’s not to like. 😃📚Repair Sheds schedule here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Edinburgh Book Festival Repair Sheds with bicycles-down in foreground.Wee Spoke Hub gift cards next to Edinburgh Book Festival programme booklets. Two people seated, fixing a bicycle wheel.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Good morning #Edinburgh! We’re at #edbookfest today, Sunday 10th 10am-1pm. 👋🏾 Join us to learn the lost art of inner tube repair. 🚲🛞 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Edinburgh Book Festival events book next to a potted plant.Wee Spoke Hub volunteer wearing a red Shrub re-use shirt with an Edinburgh Book Festival facilitator’s pass. Repair Shed schedule for 10 August 2025 showing Wee Spoke Hub on 10:00-13:00.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
☀️ Lots of events planned at the @weespokehub this month! ☀️ Bookings 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-sp... 🛠️Swing by our shop Wednesday-Saturday 1pm-6pm to get your bike serviced or check out our refurbished bikes!🛠️ #QueerFriendly #BikeRepair #InclusiveCycling #DIYBikeRepair #EdinburghEvents
August events at the Wee Spoke Hub

Sat 2 - Bike Cleaning and Oiling
Tue 5 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary
Thu 7 - Bike DIY Session 
Fri 8 - Advanced on-road cycling

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August events at the Wee Spoke Hub

Sat 9 - Introduction to on-road cycling 
          - So... you’ve bought a bike! Q&A with our mechanic
          - Bike Cleaning and Oiling
Tue 12 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary
Thu 14 - Bike DIY Session 

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Following dates on the next slide.
August events at the Wee Spoke Hub

Fri 15   - Introduction to on-road cycling 
Sat 16  - Advanced on-road cycling
            - Bike Cleaning and Oiling
Tue 19 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary
Thu 21 - Bike DIY Session 

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August events at the Wee Spoke Hub

Sat 23  - Bike Cleaning and Oiling
Tue 26 - Fix My Own Bike! Women & Non-Binary
Thu 28 - Bike DIY Session 
Sat 30  - Puncture repair workshop
             - Bike Cleaning and Oiling

Previous dates on the previous slide.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Build confidence for cycling on the road! August cycle training slots in #Edinburgh now available at Wee Spoke Hub. 🚲 Book here: www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Cycle training poster, the text reads "Book now for August".Cycle training poster, the text reads "Advanced on-road cycling".Cycle training poster, the text reads "Introduction to on-road cycling".
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
One of the many benefits of working at the Wee Spoke Hub: you get to wrap up long-distance unicycles! This lovely unicyclist (NL🇳🇱) had just cycled from #Aberdeen, and needed his #unicycle wrapped for the #Eurostar - for environmental reasons he doesn't want to fly @flightfreeuk.bsky.social
A unicyclist with a blue unicycle standing in front of the Wee Spoke Hub workshop.Zoomed-in view of the first photo.The same unicyclist (in front of the Wee Spoke Hub) with what is probably the same unicycle, completely wrapped up to the wrapping standard required by Eurostar.Zoomed-in view of the third photo.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Look what just arrived at the Wee Spoke Hub! Stitch it, don’t ditch it. 📚🌍 We like bikes, but just for today, this is our favourite stock item. 😍 #repair #upcycle More on #EdinburghStreetStitchers here: linktr.ee/stitchitdont...
Book called Stitch it, don’t ditch it available at Wee Spoke Hub.Authors Jeanna and Mary holding copies of their book: Stitch it, don’t ditch it.Wee Spoke Hub with the books in the entrance and a bicycle parked outside.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Happiness is a coffee shop next to a bicycle shop. Welcome to Guthrie Street #Edinburgh, Longhope Coffee! Their coffee is excellent, pastries yum and service fantastic. ☕️🚲😃 Well worth a visit next time you bring your bicycle in for a service.
Open door to Longhope Coffee.Wee Spoke Hub with bicycle outside, next door to Longhope Coffee. Pastries in foreground with barista making coffee in the background. Flat white coffee and espresso, beautifully prepared.
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walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The weekend is upon us so why not get out with your little one and their bike and get them going without stabilisers? Our blog has some great tips that'll get them pedaling in no time 🚴‍♀️💨 👇 www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/get...
sustrans.org.uk
Teach a child to ride a bike without stabilisers in nine steps
A nine-step guide put together with the help of Sustrans' experienced school officers, to help you teach a child to ride a bike without stabilisers.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
☀️ This month again we’ll be there to help you level up your own cycling maintenance skills ☀️ Can't make it this month or tickets are sold out? Most of our events recur weekly or monthly, check out our Eventbrite for more dates and information! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-wee-sp...
July events at Wee Spoke Hub
- Thu 3: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session
- Sat 5: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling
- Thu 10: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session
- Sat 12: learn & practise with the Puncture repair workshop
- Sat 12: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling

Sessions for women & non-binary will be back in August

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July events at Wee Spoke Hub
- Thu 17: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session
- Sat 19: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling
- Thu 24: repair & practise with the Bike DIY session
- Sat 26: Q&A with our mechanic with the So...you've bought a bike! 
- Sat 26: check & care with the Bike cleaning and oiling

Sessions for women & non-binary will be back in August

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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
To all our customers, volunteers, supporters, past and future: Happy Pride, from all of us at Wee Spoke Hub. 🚲🏳️‍🌈
A cycle mechanic emerges from the door of the Wee Spoke Hub, Edinburgh's inclusive cycle workshop, test-riding a white Peugeot drop-bar bicycle. He is draped with a Pride flag, in the style of a Superman cape.  More Pride flags are visible in the background - it could be that the photo is taken on Pride Weekend.The same photo, one second later.  The cycle mechanic has now passed the front door of the Wee Spoke Hub, and is intently powering uphill.The same cycle mechanic with the Pride flag is cycling uphill around the lower corner in Guthrie Street, his Superman Pride cape aflutter.The cycle mechanic is now on the downhill leg of the test ride.  He has the brakes in a death-grip, one can imagine the white knuckles - but the Pride cape is still streaming behind.  The picture appears to be slightly speed-blurred.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We were privileged to do warranty repairs on this bad boy, a brand new Rayvolt Clubman e-bike. Now heavily modified, incl vintage license plates, headlamp, voltmeter(!), speedometer, valve caps, and fire extinguisher! 😍 E-bike system remains (of course) road-legal and safe.
Left view of a green e-bike, styled like a vintage motorcycle. The e-bike is modern, but the owner has added a lot of actual vintage motorcycle parts, in a stylistically consistent assembly.
The bike is stood on a lawn, in a garden, resulting in a satisfying photographic composition.The same green e-bike, photographed in the same garden, from a top-left angle. The viewpoint is that of a tall person looking down on a standard-sized motorcycle; but the impression is given that the photographer is flying.
The photographer is probably using magic.The same green e-bike, photographed outside the Wee Spoke Hub cycle workshop, with a rider. Unlike the other two photographs, this is clearly an amateur snapshot.
The backdrop features graffiti-covered walls, and a green-lid on-street recycle bin. Also in shot is a blue tenement door with a string of keyboxes for short-term lets - at least six keyboxes are visible, with a suggestion of more out of sight.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
These stats from the City of London (aka the square mile) are unbelievable. They’ve already exceeded their 2030 targets. Cycling up 70% since 2017, motor traffic down 34%. The full report is v interesting - they do proper traffic surveys every 2 years.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This is Göttingen. That's how you do sustainable transport, Edinburgh. 😍 We're looking forward to the day when Edinburgh looks like this - not least because of all the bike parking!
Photo taken from underneath a chestnut tree, of rows and rows and rows of parked bikes, packed fairly tightly.  There could be over 300 bikes in the photo.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
☀️Lots of events planned this month!☀️ We're trying something new: in June we'll have weekly women & non-binary Fix Your Own Bike workshops 🏳️‍⚧ 🛠️Swing by our shop Wednesday-Saturday 1pm-6pm for all your bike servicing and repair needs!🛠️ #QueerFriendly #BikeRepair #ActiveTravel #Edinburgh
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Tue 3rd Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed
Thu 5th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed
Sat 7th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed
Tue 10th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed

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June events at Wee Spoke Hub image 2 out of 3

Thu 12th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed
Sat 14th Q&A with our mechanic with So...you've bought a bike! - Ticketed
Sat 14th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed
Tue 17th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed
Thu 19th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed


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Sat 21st Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed
Tue 24th Repair & Practice with Fix My own bike! Women & Non-Binary - Ticketed

Thu 26th Repair & Practice with Bike DIY Session - Ticketed
Sat 28th Learn & Practice with Puncture repair workshop - Ticketed
Sat 28th Check & Care with Bike Cleaning and Oiling - Free & ticketed


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SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk · 02/06/2025
'My Favourite Bike Ride' ... #SpokesComp 2025 😍 Spread the joy! 😉 Become famous 🤩 .. and win one of our amazing prizes --> www.spokes.org.uk/2025/06/spok... @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @alastairdalton.bsky.social
Spokes 2025 competition, intro to the post

#SpokesComp 2025 : My Favourite Bike Ride

For our 2025 summer competition we’d like to hear about your favourite local bike ride, in Edinburgh and/or the Lothians. It may be a leisure ride, or your daily commute or perhaps the school ‘run’ with your kids.

In judging the competition, we want to know not just the route itself but, most of all, why this ride is so special to you. Hopefully your entry will entice or inspire other people to get on their bike and try the same or something similar.

So that the competition does not require technical skills, judging will be based on written entries. Your route should be fairly easy to describe, without too many intricate instructions, frequent turnings, etc. Photos and/or a sketch can be included and often help, but are not essential. You can also include electronic mapping if you wish, but this will not be included in the judging.
canal towpath photos from our previous competitionThe incredible prizes! ...

PRIZES

Top prizewinner gets first choice of prizes, and so on till all prizes allocated. Runner-up entries which don’t win a prize will get to choose a free Spokes map or buff

    Museum of Scottish Railways (Bo’Ness) Family annual pass to the extensive museum
    Bo’Ness & Kinneil Steam Railway Family ticket for one return trip
    Ember Bus [takes 2 bikes] £50 bus tickets credit
    Edinburgh Bicycle £50 Edinburgh Bicycle voucher
    Camera Obscura Family ticket
    Cameo Picturehouse Tickets for 2
    Laidback Bikes Recumbent tour or cargobike hire
    Harts Cyclery One-week ebike hire
    Edinburgh Festival of Cycling Urban Arrow Cargo-bike day hire
    Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford £20 voucher
    Lanterne Rouge bike cafe, Gifford Blue/white no-plastic Africap from Sierra Leone
    Spokes £1000 voucher* towards cargo-bike purchase
    Spokes £200 voucher* towards e-bike purchase
    Spokes Set of all 4 Spokes maps

    RUNNERS-UP Spokes map or Edinburgh map-buff
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Our absolute pleasure @edcriticalmass.bsky.social! We’re delighted to support the important work of Critical Mass. ♥️🚲💪🏾
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Sometimes you do a double-take, and then it's really obvious. Spotted @weightogo.bsky.social on Leith Walk. ❤️
Poster on a refillery shop wall called Weigh to Go saying: “Lives don’t need more things. Things need more lives.” On the theme of reduce and reuse.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Now that's how you use a cargo bike! That's seven(!) kids on the bike, and one standing alongside. We love the Tern cargo bikes, not only for their versatility, but also - most of them you can store upright! 😳 We'd love to see your cargo bike photos, extreme or otherwise.
A man is riding a blue/green Tern cargo bike, in front of the Bodleian Libraries Shop. The bike is loaded, overloaded. One kid is standing alongside, and seven kids are in the bike, four behind the rider, and three in front.

Emoji have been placed over the faces of all children who would otherwise be recognisable, to protect their privacy. The emoji do hide their infectiously delighted smiles.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We love the women-led School of Rocks! Check out their six-week syllabus of graded off-road rides. Starting Tue 15 Apr 2025. linktr.ee/edi_schoolof...
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
You can never hold back spring🌷but if 🚲confidence is holding you back we’ve got your back. Ok so we stretched that 🌷lyric as far as it goes (sorry #TomWaits) but we do have fantastic adult cycle training! From absolute beginner to advanced on-road cycling. Book here: www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Poster for adult cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for introduction to on-road cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for advanced on-road cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub. Poster for absolute beginners cycle training by Wee Spoke Hub.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Anybody missing a bicycle? Looks abandoned. It’s a Dawes Sonoran, on Ferry Road bike path Edinburgh, between Ainslie Park and Boswall Drive. Both rims very worn, wheels punctured. Rideable but probably not safe. Leaving here like a lucky early Easter egg. 🐣
Dawes Sonoran bicycle under a bicycle path sign.Bicycle, Dawes Sonoran.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Our open workshops have a waiting list! How did that even happen? We love it when all our participants are women and minority genders! There's more to this week's story, details in the thread... www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Our basement yellow/green/red cycle workshop with a double workstand holding two bicycles. A woman in practical dungarees is working on one of the bikes, assisted by a bearded Wee Spoke Hub volunteer.A different view of the same scene, seconds later. We see only one of the bicycles (the white one), and the neatly wrapped brown bar tape is clearly visible.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Get your bike ready for spring! 🚲🌱 Great idea @cyclinguk.bsky.social Edinburgh folks, you can perform this annual cycle ritual at our Bike-DIY open workshops. Book here: www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
After a two-week pause, we’re excited that our Thursday evening Bike-DIY open workshops are back! …and already booked up for next week. 😅 This is the basement workshop, creatively named Primary Colours by our marvellous volunteers who run the sessions. Book here: www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
A participant in a blue overall gives a cheerful thumbs-up to the camera. The primary colours and the wide angle draw in the viewer, and make the workshop seem like a wonderful place to be.A close-up of two pairs of hands adjusting the derailleur on a silver bicycle.A volunteer and a participant in a blue overall are working on a silver bicycle in a workstand. The workshop walls are painted yellow, green, red.A volunteer is assisting a participant to connect the bicycle chain. This is a different angle on the same cheerful workshop.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Free 🚲 treasure hunt today, Friday 21 March! Just pitch up @cargobikemovement.bsky.social hub in Tollcross from 12pm.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Are we ready for the Bike-DIY open workshop on Thu 20 Mar? 🤷‍♀️ But is it pretty? ✅❣️ www.shrubcoop.org/events-at-wsh
Wee Spoke Hub new bike DIY open workshop space. Bikestand and emerging green tool wall.Wee Spoke Hub mechanic working on the new open workshop bike DIY space.
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Wee Spoke Hub @weespokehub.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Wishing @thebikestation.bsky.social all the best with their final sale day (15th March) and move to their new Edinburgh home!
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Regenerative Futures Fund @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're looking for people living in Edinburgh who have experienced poverty and/or racism and want to see real change in the city. A paid opportunity to help decide which community projects will really make a difference and get funded for ten years. regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/resi...
Image shows a poster advertising the opportunity. More info at https://regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/residents
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