Cycling UK in Scotland Annual Gathering 2025

All Cycling UK members are invited to attend the Cycling UK in Scotland Annual Gathering on Saturday 1 November at Augustin United Church Hall in Edinburgh. We’d also love to welcome non-members who would like to know more about Cycling UK!

This free event features a series of inspiring and informative talks, with lunch included.

Talks and speakers include:

• Bike messenger turned ultra-endurance cyclist Emily Chappell, author of What Goes Around and Where There’s A Will
• Aneela McKenna has ridden everything from enduro trails to bikepacking missions and gravel epics, with a special fondness for wild rides in the Scottish Highlands. She will talk on peri-menopause and menopause in cycling
• Scotland's only social enterprise providing off-road adaptive cycling to the disability community, The Adaptive Riders Collective will be sharing their film Three Wheel Drive
• Cycling UK updates by Chief Executive Sarah Mitchell
• Update on the Shawlands Bike Bus by Katherine Cory
• Updates on Cycling UK’s life-changing community based projects, and campaigns and policy work, with Duncan Dollimore, Suzanne Forup, Jim Densham and Scott Runciman.

Tea and coffee will be available from 10.30am, with the event starting at 11am.

A free light lunch will be provided.

Led ride

Starting at 9.30am at Haymarket station, an infrastructure safari including the new CCWEL link and Scottish Canals improvements at Fountainbridge. The ride will be three miles at the pace of the slowest rider. More details on route to follow. Please register interest when booking to be kept up to date.

Tickets

Reserve your free place today on Eventbrite.

If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Abbess, chair of the Scottish Advisory Committee on [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you!