event – Aberdeen Cycle Forum

Best in Cycling Awards Aberdeen 2024

September 20, 2024 by Rachel M, posted in Uncategorized

Aberdeen Cycle Forum is hosting the Best in Cycling Awards for 2024 next Tuesday 24th September at 7:30pm where we’ll announce the winners in the following categories: Best Business, Best Employer, Best New Cycle Infrastructure, Best Public Cycle Parking, Best School, Cycle Hero, and The Cycle Raspberry.

We’ve also got two guest speakers lined up: Linda Moreno Sanchez who worked for the Transportation Department in Mexico before coming to Aberdeen and Fiona McBain who delivers Bikeability in schools for Sustrans.

The venue is Aberdeen Methodist Church on Crown Terrace. Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.

Aberdeen Cycle Forum celebrates 20 years!

September 16, 2023September 18, 2023 by Rachel M, posted in Uncategorized

Twenty years ago on Tuesday 30th September 2003, Aberdeen Cycle Forum had its inaugural meeting. You can read the minutes of that meeting, which outline the attendees, what they discussed, and why the forum was created. Aberdeen Cycle Forum has held monthly meetings in the 20 years since with all the minutes publicly available on our website.

We’re still run entirely on volunteer steam. Over the years we’ve responded to countless consultations, organised protests, run competitions and campaigns, provided cycling lessons to locals, commissioned street art for the cycle network, provided feedback to the council on cycling-related issues and even organised a litter pick.

To celebrate our 20 years we’re having a special event on the 3rd October 2023 at 7pm in the Arts Centre on King Street. To mark the special occasion we’ve got three guest speakers: one from Cycling without Age Scotland, one from Aberdeenshire Bike Bothy, and Aberdeen’s very own para-athlete, Joanna Robertson. There’ll also be a Q&A with Aberdeen City Council co-leader Ian Yuill and Councillor Miranda Radley. A café and bar will be available so come and celebrate 20 years with us!

All new roads should have a bike path

September 9, 2018 by Rachel M, posted in event

The people of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire gathered outside Marischal College today to protest the lack of provision for cycling on the new AWPR – a bypass around Aberdeen. The AWPR has been in the plans for decades and it was more than 20 years ago that Cycling UK argued in favour of a segregated bike path on the road, if and when it got built. The Aberdeen Cycle Forum has also always been in favour of a segregated bike path. Sadly, they built the road and didn’t put in a bike path. Not only that but the new road has made conditions worse for cyclists in the region where is crosses the much-loved Deeside Way and also the Westhill cycle path. People are angry and frustrated and turned up to have their voice heard at the protest today.

Representatives of the media were also there: BBC Scotland Radio, The Press & Journal, The Evening Express, and STV.

We know that money is not a blocker. The money is there but the local authority needs to apply to spend it. We want this money used to build segregated bike paths so that everyone can cycle in safety and we want all new road projects to include plans for segregated bike paths in the design.