If there’s one maintenance skill that you’ll be glad you learned with your bike it’s how to fix a puncture. While some squidgy brakes or a rattling chain will normally last until you’re home, the chances are that sometime in your cycling life you’ll be stranded in the middle of nowhere (or at least a few miles from home) with a (pun warning) rather deflated feeling and absolutely no way of being able to ride any further.

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As we move towards summer with the promise of some better weather (don’t laugh at the back there) I thought it might be time to dust off a few of the best routes around the Lothians.

For each route I have included a link to a more detailed description together with a map and profile (featured on the VisitScotland, Edinburgh Bicycle or Citycycling websites). Read the rest of this entry »

A shopping centre might not seem like the most obvious place for an indoor extreme sports experience but, in the ocean terminal shopping centre in Leith, Edinburgh, a bmx and skate park has been developed which has been touted as the highest in the country. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the easiest ways to be put off getting out on your bike is finding out just before you’re leaving that there is a basic problem, and deciding that it’s just not worth the hassle to sort there and then. It really pays to set aside an hour or two to go through a few simple checks, and make sure that you will actually get out the door when you planned to.

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