Summer 2016 Rides List

Day Ride - Saturday 28th May - 10.00am Lynnsport A picnic ride to Wolferton Plain. About 15 miles. Bring your picnic as well as your bike. Day Ride - Sunday 5th June - 10.00am Lynnsport A ride to Bircham Windmill. About thirty five miles. Evening Ride - Thursday 9th June - 7pm at South Quay ...

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Space4cycling 2017 Workshop Report

I've just left the workshop starting work on the campaign to get more pro-cycling councillors elected in next year's elections. I had to choose one workshop from policy, communications and technology, so trusting that the CycleNation team will do technology well and having checked there were other rural voices in the policy one, I went ...

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Kicking off #space4cycling 2017!

It seems like just two weeks ago that the 2016 elections took place and yet, work starts in Leicester this weekend on the national space4cycling campaign for the 2017 county council elections. space4cycling is one of BUG's current campaigns, calling for useful routes to be opened to cycling or made easier, whether by reducing motorist ...

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Extra Ride: Wend Westward With Wayne

There will be an extra ride starting from Lynnsport at 10am on Sunday 31 January 2016, heading out west into the wind which is currently forecast to strengthen and then blow us home across the flat fens. Planned half-way stop is at the Olde Ship pub in Long Sutton. This is an EXTRA all-welcome ride ...

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Tips on Cycling in Snow and Ice

The fens have just started getting snow and sadly, our councils are not as cool as Copenhagen's snow-clearing yet: Riding through fresh snow is surprisingly grippy but it often doesn't last long before some of it gets compacted into ice by other road users. It can also hide debris - one of my best bike ...

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Letter: proposed Marsh Lane development

Previously on KLWNBUG... we criticised the initial plans for the new Lynnsport-Edward Benefer Way road that would have replaced part of the Sandringham Railway cycle path and added dangerous crossings; and then our volunteers (Pete, Rob, myself and many others - including friends at our national body Cyclenation and the charities Sustrans and CTC) helped ...

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Planning Round-up: KL Marsh Lane / DM Bexwell Road / Ringstead Chapel Lane / Clenchwarton Wildfields / Watlington Mill Road

Responding to proposed plans for new buildings and changes is one of the few ways that we can tell developers what local cyclists want. Sadly, many developers either come from far away places where few people cycle or they seem simply not to understand what local cycling policies mean or something. Council officers spot some ...

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Fawkes in the Walks

Fawkes in the Walks is on Friday 6th November, with the bonfire being lit at half six and fireworks from 8pm. More details are on the borough council website. Why not freewheel into town and avoid getting stuck in traffic? This year, there's a new 60-space cycle park with lockers on the ground floor of ...

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