WELCOME!Welcome to the first issue of the We Go Pedal News! We hope you find this newsletter full of useful information and tips and suggestions as to how you can cycle more or, if you haven’t cycled in a long time, how you can get back in the saddle. If you have any suggestions as to what you would like to see in the newsletter please get in touch. We plan to produce three issues between now and June!

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WEST GLASGOW PEDALLERS – WE GO PEDAL PROJECT!The West Glasgow Pedallers We Go Pedal project is a partnership project. Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust (DRCET) is the lead partner in the project and the other partners are De’ils On Wheels bike workshop (a DRCET project), LINKES Bike Club and the Whiteinch Bike Club.

The project aims to • encourage people of all ages and abilities living in west Glasgow

(Yoker, Scotstoun, Whiteinch and Knightswood) to start cycling or cycle more in their community

• promote cycling as an active, alternative and complementary means of travel to existing means of travel

• provide learning and development opportunities for people in west Glasgow including improving cycling skills, cycle maintenance skills, health and wellbeing and confidence

The project is funded by Cycling Scotland’s Cycle Friendly and Sustainable Communities Fund (CFSCF).

You can keep up to date with the progress of the project by visiting the Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust blog and clicking on the We Go Pedal logo or clicking on the We Go Pedal tag on any blog entry.

https://dumbartonroad.wordpress.com/tag/we-go-pedal

SURVEYWe recently undertook a short survey of local people to find out more about people’s cycling and travel habits. We had 128 responses to the survey which was fantastic – 71 women and 57 men responded with 68 of responses coming from G13 and G14 postcodes. Interestingly 82% of U16s and 90% of over16s could cycle. And 23% of households had no car and 12% of households had no bicycles!

We asked people that cycled what would encourage them to cycle more and we asked people that didn’t cycle what would encourage them to get in the saddle! Surprisingly the responses were very similar

• More and better cycle paths especially segregated paths

• Lack of confidence when cycling especially on roads and in traffic

• Lack of time.• And the weather was a big issue with both cyclists

and non-cyclists.

So this newsletter hopes to address some of the issues raised – although not a lot we can do about the weather!

We are delighted that Cycle Law Scotland has kindly sponsored all three issues of the newsletter.www.cyclelawscotland.co.uk

Cycle Law Scotland provides cyclists with unrivalled, specialist, personal representation with accident claims.

West Glasgow PedallersWe Go Pedal Project is a partnership

between De’ils On Wheels bike workshop, LINKES Bike Club and the

Whiteinch Bike Club

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SIMPLE PLEASURES EASILY FOUND IN WEST GLASGOW Last year DRCET in partnership with SNH produced a Simple Pleasures leaflet for west Glasgow based on a 10 mile circular route linking Route 7 and Route 754 along the Forth & Clyde Canal and several great parks and green spaces in the local area

www.dumbartonroad.com www.snh.gov.uk/simplepleasures

GLASGOW CYCLE MAPThis great map shows lots of routes across Glasgow. You can pick up your free copy of the map at The Glasgow Bike Station

www.thebikestation.org.uk/glasgow

DE’ILS ON WHEELS COMMUNITY BIKE WORKSHOPDe’ils On Wheels is a Revolved accredited community bike workshop based in Scotstoun. We accept donations of unwanted bikes and our reused bikes are sold at affordable price or recycled for parts and scrap. We also provide servicing and repairs at affordable prices.

www.deilsonwheels.org.uk

NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK HITS 20!2015 marked the 20th anniversary of the National Cycle Network. In 1995 Sustrans set out to create our vision of a UK-wide network of high-quality, convenient walking and cycling routes.

The Network passes within a mile of half of all UK homes and now stretches over 14,000 miles across the UK and forms a series of safe, traffic-free paths and quiet on-road cycling and walking routes that connect to every major town and city. Route 7, which runs from Sunderland to Inverness, and Route 75 both run through Glasgow.

The Network has demonstrated that providing safe, attractive walking and cycling networks is a crucial way to give people the confidence they need to leave their car at home and walk and cycle more.

www.sustrans.org.uk

SOUTH WEST CITY WAY OPENEDA new 2km stretch of segregated cycle way recently opened on the South side linking Pollokshields with the Tradeston Bridge. The route is part of Glasgow’s “City Ways” which are those cycle routes that radiate from the city centre. They are key routes that have business, cultural, educational and residential destinations along and in close proximity to them and they link into the wider cycle network.

www.glasgow.gov.uk/cycling

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WE WALK, WE CYCLE, WE VOTE This campaign is calling on candidates for the 2016 Holyrood elections to take the chance to transform Scotland into a healthier, wealthier, happier country by supporting action in three areas – investment, infrastructure and safety.

walkbikevote.wordpress.com

ESSENTIAL CYCLING SKILLS If it’s been a while since you’ve been in the saddle or you’re more used to weekend cycles in the countryside that negotiating rush hour commuter traffic, Cycling Scotland’s new Essential Cycling Skills app may just come in handy. Download it now from iTunes or Google Play and you’ll wonder why you ever got that bus to work…

www.cyclingscotland.org

CAMPAIGN FOR PRESUMED LIABILITYPlease take a minute to sign the petition to the Scottish Government to pass a member’s bill for presumed liability between motorists,cyclists and pedestrians. The bill is designed to protect the most vulnerable road users and to reflect a hierarchy of road users in road traffic collisions between motorists and cyclists and similarly between cyclists and pedestrians.

www.roadshare.co.uk

REVOLVE ACCREDITED REUSE CENTRESRevolve is a re-use quality standardfor shops who sell second hand goods in Scotland including bikes. Revolve wants to make it easier, more inviting, and safer for everyone to buy second hand items. When you see the Revolve logo, then you know you are buying from a great re-use shop, who is committed to quality and excellent customer service. There are currently 13 Revolve accredited centres across Scotland that sell quality reused bikes!

www.revolvereuse.com

NEXTBIKE GLASGOWGlasgow’s Mass Automated Cycle Hire (MACH) scheme was launched in June 2014 in the run up to the Commonwealth Games. You can rent Nextbike Glasgow bikes at numerous locations across the city. The bikes are available to rent 24/7 from any Nextbike station. Renting a bike is easy using the free app, the on-bike computer, or by phoning the Nextbike hotline.

www.nextbike.co.uk/en/glasgow

PLAY ON PEDALS Play On Pedals is a fantastic project which will give the opportunity for pre-school children across Glasgow to have the chance to learn to ride a bike before they start school. In the West Play On Pedals is working with De’ils On Wheels their local ‘hero organisation’

www.playonpedals.com

ROAD SAFETY WEEKRoad Safety Week is the UK’s biggest road safety event, coordinated annually by Brake and involving thousands of schools, organisations and communities each year. This year the theme is Drive Less Live More and there are lots of great advice and resources about how to stay safe on the roads on the website

www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk

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WEBSITESThere are loads of websites out there providing info on cycling and sustainable travel options – here are our starter for 10!

BikeAbility Scotlandwww.bikeabilityscotland.org

CTC Scotlandwww.ctc.org.uk/scotland

Cycle Scheme’s How To pageswww.cyclescheme.co.uk/community/how-to

Cycling Scotlandwww.cyclingscotland.org

Cycling Scotland Journey Plannercyclejourneyplanner.cyclingscotland.org

Choose Another Waywww.chooseanotherway.com

Glasgow City Councilwww.glasgow.gov.uk/cycling

Go Bike Strathclyde Cycle Campaignwww.gobike.org

Scottish Cyclingwww.britishcycling.org.uk/scotland

Sustrans Scotlandwww.sustrans.org.uk/scotland

TWITTERSMost of the above websites also have Facebook and Twitter accounts so you can also follow them there. And we’ve identified a few Twitter accounts that make for interesting reading about life in the saddle…

@magnatomThe rambling twitterings from the mind of a helmet camera cyclist in Glasgow and co-organiser of Pedal on Parliament (@popscotland)

@carsickglasgowDocumenting the atrocious conditions for cycling and walking in Scotland’s largest city

@S4CGlasgowSpace for Cycling - Campaigning for safe space for cycling, for everyone, everywhere... in Glasgow and surrounding area.

@backonmybikeRediscovering cycling with a new bike accessory - a toddler.

@John_Lauder Director of Sustrans Scotland

DRCET is a recognised Scottish Charity (Charity No SC035954) and

a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland (Company No

SC273114). Registered office Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre, 64

Balmoral Street, Glasgow G14 0BL

For more information about the We Go Pedal project please contact Dumbarton Road Corridor

Environment Trust

0141 433 0427getinvolved@dumbartonroad.com

www.dumbartonroad.com

You can also contact the partners:

De’ils On Wheels www.deilsonwheels.org.uk

LINKES Bike Club www.linkes.org.uk

Whiteinch Bike Clubwww.whiteinchcentre.org.uk

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