The Nottingham City Council bid for the second round of Cycling England's Cycling Towns/City Project, submitted at the end of March.

This bid, along with 72 others, was made in response to Cycling England's announcement earlier this year that they would be funding another round of Cycling Demonstration Town Projects, as first funded in 2005.

Great Notts Bike Ride entries open now!

The Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride, sponsored by Boots, launched at Boots Headquarters in Beeston. Geoff Thomas, former England footballer and Forest player attended and stated his intention to take part in a the new 100 mile Sportive Route that has been introduced this year by organisers, Nottingham Country Council.

The new North and South city cycle maps are now available.  They should soon be available from Cycle Shops, Libraries and the City and County websites soon.

For City Cycle maps please phone (0115) 9156221 or contact traffic.management [at] nottinghamcity [dot] gov [dot] uk

The latest February 2008 newsletter can be downloaded here.

- An appeal from Susan Young, Pedals Treasurer

Due to unforeseen computing problems, we have been unable to recover some vital details relating to our members.

In order to ensure our records continue to be up to date, we are trying to contact all of our members.

We would like to say thank you to all those who have responded to our request for help and ask everyone to check that anyone they know to be a member, or would like to become a member, to contact Chris Gardner, the new Membership Secretary, as soon as they can.

Together we have won £50 million.

This is fantastic news. Connect2 is a great project and you and your colleagues, family and friends have pulled out all the stops to help us win.

We are immensely grateful for all your huge efforts.

With all good wishes for Christmas; thank you again for your tremendous support, Nicola

With the clocks going back, now is the time for all cyclists to ensure that they are seen in the dark.

The Cambridge Cycling Campaign have produced an excellent poster on this subject which is available here.

The BeSeenOnABike also has information and products available.

Well-used Station cycle stands to be replaced by shops!

If current plans go ahead for repaving of the Nottingham Station forecourt (Porte Cochere) these well-used cycle stands will disappear next year and be replaced by shops or even a restaurant!

Pedals is protesting strongly at the loss of this well-used facility, probably the best used group of cycle stands in Nottingham, and the present plan to relocate them in the Milk Dock area on the north sided of the Station, a much less convenient location and one that many users will also find less safe to use, particularly after dark.