Railway Rd/Austin St Lights Replacement Jan 2017

Norfolk County Council have sent us advanced warning that the junction of Railway Road and Austin Street in King's Lynn (between the Royal Mail sorting office, Austin House and Lidl) will have lane closures and temporary lights manually-operated 7am-7pm from 16 January 2017 for up to 4 weeks while they replace 20-year-old traffic lights and ...

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Dec 16/Jan17 Rides list

Day Ride                                 Sunday 4th December                           10.00am Lynnsport A ride to Ongar Hill. Admiralty Point followed by Memories Tea Room. Clenchwarton (if open) or Lynn café/pub if not. About 20 miles. Evening Ride (about 1 hour) Christmas Lights Ride Decorate yourself and your bike and see the Town Centre and Chase area lights.                                                                                Thursday 8th ...

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Riverfront Consultation - Group Responses

With reference to the King's Lynn Riverfront Delivery Plan, King's Lynn and West Norfolk Bike Users Group would like to express its absolute opposition to the proposal to open Harding's Way to all traffic. This route, which was originally open only to cyclists and pedestrians, and was opened to buses in 2011, currently provides a ...

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Call for Police Help to Reduce Road Casualties

What has happened? The number of cyclists being killed or seriously injured on Norfolk’s roads has risen, prompting the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner to call for a campaign to get more children to wear cycle helmets (EDP). What's wrong with that? Any increase in cycling casualties is bad, but Commissioner Green's campaign won't reduce ...

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October/November/December Bulletin

Evening Ride (about 1 hour)             Thursday 13th October               7.00pm by the South Quay floating pontoon An evening ride from the South Quay pontoon at 7.00pm followed by optional drinks. Day Ride                                  Saturday 15th October                           9.00am Lynnsport Mystery Ride destination and distance to be decided depending on who joins the group on the day. Day Ride                                  ...

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Amendment to "Autumn Colours" ride

There’s a clash of rides on Saturday 15th October so we have put back the Autumn Colours Ride for one week.  It will now take place on Saturday 22nd October starting at 9am from Lynnsport.   If there are bugsters intending to ride on Saturday 15th October it will be a “Decide- Destination-on-the-Day” ride starting ...

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Ray Gressieux

Dear Bugsters, Here is very sad news. Today during a ride with a group of Cycling U.K. and BUG  members, Ray Gressieux collapsed when nearing Blickling and in spite of every effort by members of the group and by paramedics, could not be revived. Ray was a regular rider with BUG and had intended to ...

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