@LaidBackBikes

Current mix from www.carbonintensity.org.uk
North of Scotland totally on wind power (includes cities of Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. Regular occurrence these days.

Urban Arrow Breeze at St Kentigern's LAR housing trust car free development.

We should have our first customer feedback in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 of Urban Arrow's new Breeze. Normally rides a Veloe so will make interesting comparison. Like keeping our customers on the road as much as we can! @edi.bike @banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @spokes.org.uk @cargobikefest.bsky.social

Funny how politicians who are most keen on whining about immigration and refugees and asylum seekers are also very keen on starting the wars that create refugees and asylum seekers.

Map showing CCWEL route, with counter points marked. Michael Owen, an 89-year-old Edinburgh resident who uses his bike most days to stay fit, said: "I'm very supportive of improvements for cycling in the city. I'm approaching 90, and I use my bike to get local shopping most days. If it's a decent day I might add a mile or two onto my journey."

Cycling Scotland data report... In Edinburgh, a growing network of cycle lanes is also seeing more people choosing to travel by bike. Over the 48-hour survey period, traffic surveys recorded 4,744 bikes on Leith Walk. This was out of a total of 48,832 travel methods recorded, meaning that 9.7% of people cycled their journey – the highest cycling modal share yet seen on the route. On the western-most portion of the new City Centre West East Link (CCWEL), at West Coates in Roseburn, 2,798 bikes were recorded over the same 48-hour survey period. This was out of a total of 30,175 travel methods recorded on the street, equating to 9.3% of journeys being made by bike – a new record cycling modal share for this section of route. At York Place, where the new CCWEL protected cycle route connects to Leith Walk via Picardy Place, 1,921 cycle journeys were recorded over the two-day period. This is the largest number of bikes yet recorded at this location by a Cycling Scotland traffic survey and evidence of the growth in cycling being supported as routes join together.

👍 Nearly 10% of trips here already by 🚲

🙋 What would it be with the missing #GeorgeStreet link?

@edi.bike @sw20.info @edfoc.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @finlaymcf.bsky.social @cllrcmiller.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @alastairdalton.bsky.social

Swat = seat!

Urban Arrow Breeze.

Courtesy UA Breeze going out on loan to customer with motor fault on their Veloe. Own swat and crate. Interested to know what they'll think of it.

Finland had Europe's third-cheapest electricity prices in 2025 The only other European countries with more affordable electricity were hydropower-dominated Sweden and Norway, according to energy firm Helen.

"Finland's spot electricity prices, including taxes, averaged at around 5.1 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) this year, the company explained in a press release on Monday."

Domestic and integrated Nordic production of clean electricity improves energy security and affordability.

yle.fi/a/74-20201799

Circe Helios tandem with dog basket mounted.

ICE Sprint Rohloff small seat version with short cranks.

Nazca Fuego demo bike. Adjust for very small rider with shortened cranks. 12 speed set up had enough range for quick test.

Busy morning... visit by Edinburgh Tool Library with Circe Helios tandem. Dog in charge naturally! New Sprint trike in build. Red with silver Rohloff and 90mm drums. Short seat. Plus new rider just learnt to ride two wheels reclined! Shop Fuego with Circe crank shorteners set 110mm to let her reach.

UA TopLoader

UA TopLoader

UA TopLoader

Today's job was moving quite heavyweight cargo across town. Book filled holdalls split over two runs. UA TopLoader using all available deck space plus ratchet straps.

Gleann Fhearnach

LOMO frame bag on 1985 EBC Contour MTB.

Strava map of route.

Milder weather dust down of Edinburgh Bicycle Coop Contour. @urchaidh.bsky.social Legendary 'MTB' from 1980s. Steel frame, road triple, mudguards, front and back racks, guards. Carried daughter till she was almost 5. Added LOMO (from Glasgow) frame bag - bit spacey for pre sloping top tube bike! 😆

🙋 TODAY Thursday 26 Feb

Customer feedback on the SW20 free-to-hire community ebike:

“The bike is awesome! Like a magic carpet on wheels.”

You can hire a magic carpet too!

Looking across a wide carriageway in the wet, beyond black and white cycle lane defence bollards, past a metal fence and bare trees flanking parkland, to the snowy topography of the pentland hills beyond under a sky thick with grey winter cloud.

🚲 edi.bike | issue 133 | 23rd Feb '26

City Scope launches new ‘Cycle Scope’ roadworks and route map; Cycling Scotland
infrastructure stats; Critical Mass this week, plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more:

buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc...

#bikeSky #edinburgh

Explore the data: how safe infrastructure is helping more people to cycle Latest analysis of cycling data shows thousands of people travelling by bike where new, safe cycling infrastructure is being built in Scotland

Explore the data: how safe infrastructure is helping more people to cycle cycling.scot/news/explore...
From @cyclingscotland.bsky.social

Is there a reward at the end? Leith certainly has a few temptations if you like a beer.
Nice walk whatever! 🌞

A large group of people, including children, on bikes of all sizes cycle through a green space. The text reads: Pedal on Parliament - Save the date: 30th May 2026, 11.30am - #PoP26 - Meadows to Holyrood on closed roads, for a cycle-friendly Scotland

We’re back - Save the Date! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads.

#ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26

Melia seat in Nihola trike.

No problem. 👍 Just fitted other toddler seat to the Nihola Bafang trike. Drilled two holes to fix strap clamps too plus one heavy security zip tie through straps onto the steel cage round box. The acrylic allows you to squeeze this through. Rain cover very easy to pull off for access.

Urban Arrow cargobike with Nihola cargotrike on bridge over canal.

Veloe Multi Lungo and Urban Arrow Breeze longtail demo bikes from Laid Back Bikes.

'Tiny bike shop in capital surprises people with range of cargo bikes on offer' 😆
Test ride Nihola versus Urban Arrow. Or Veloe Lungo versus new Breeze. Featuring Bosch, Shimano and Bafang assist to haul your family and more around. Free delivery mainland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and north of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. @spokes.org.uk

Ember are routing most buses through now. So it's now a hub on their network north so people can get to stops on way to Dundee and Aberdeen.
Was a plan once to put railway through under terminal but that was cancelled. Rail loss = more buses on the roads.

Ember bus online tracking.

Yes E11 from Ember. Dundee to Aberdeen twice a day via Braemar. Takes bikes skis etc.

Urban Arrow as ski transport.

Ember E11 bus at Glenshee Ski Centre

Strava map of some runs at Glenshee Ski Centre.

Used an Urban Arrow to get the Ember bus today to go skiing (4.5 miles village to stop on A93). With car park at centre so busy it's not such a crazy idea as it stops beside main building. 😆 14 miles on skis today and 9 miles on bike. Weather a whiteout although snow cover best it's been for years

On way back by train and bus. Quick 3 hour visit and a trike with new owner.

Was tempted to take Ember at around same time but coffee and cake on smoother train won. ☕🥮 £10 LNER ticket is a business expense anyway and we don't own a car.
Ember buses now go to Edinburgh Airport Terminal which means potential delays and lots of roundabouts!

71 school bus to Blairgowrie on a snowy February morning. Just missed deer crossing street.

River Ardle in Kirkmichael.

Snowy hills around Loch Earn and Loch Tay from train.

Rapid transit to capital. 8am school bus 5 mins late as roads a bit crunchy. Made 10am LNER in Perth and having coffee and cake doing admin.
Lots of drivers would be later too as big ice scraping day I reckon.

"Is it too much to ask that we get a protected cycleway down the length of George St to facilitate safer journeys — now! — to finally complete this (City Centre West to East Link) for use during the inevitable coming half-decade of consultant design fees, consultation, and actionless hand-wringing?"

The bicycle exists

Traffic blockage on snowy A93

Snowgate webcam.

View into Strathardle.

Gone snowy again around Strathardle. A93 blocked by vehicles. Snowgates open. Ember cancelled. Went out on xc skis for a while. Very misty as snow so wet. Hopefully school bus will run tomorrow at 8am as have meeting in Edinburgh at 11.30. 🙏

Thank you. Should be able to compare with a Veloe Multi Lungo soon (saying that for lurkers as know you've other things to budget!). Big box arrived an hour after you were here! 👍

Might be slow but views are always good on Fife coast. Snow on hills south.

View from Forth railway bridge looking east. Hound point oil terminal in Forth estuary.

So now on rail north. 25 minutes in at Inverkeithing and delayed - pulled to the side to allow a later LNER to Aberdeen pass. Smooth and slow travel in comparison to bus! 😆 6 min connection in Perth for Pitlochry train. No Ember bus at Haymarket as 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 rugby today! @chdot.bsky.social @edi.bike