New taster video of Bike Track at Gypsy Brae http://youtu.be/S8gMmqz6Yng worth a watch (better with sound)
Volunteer Days coming up at Gypsy Brae:
Monday 10 June – 9am – 5pm – TOMORROW !!!
Monday 17 June – 9am – 5pm
Launch Saturday 22 June 1-4pm
Races, refreshments, side stalls
Jonny Kinross
Social Enterprise Manager www.myadventure.org.uk
Office: 0131 332 7132 Direct: 0131 208 3321
M: 07794 467 351 F: 0871 528 4830
Cyclone Bike Track – Phase 2!
Phase Two of Edinburgh’s newest biggest mountain biking track gets underway today! Local business, corporations and members of the local community [all volunteers] come together to create a ‘Mountain bike Legacy’
MY Adventure invites you to the extremely exciting and well anticipated 2nd stage of the construction of Edinburgh’s newest and biggest mountain biking track.
Come along between
Tuesday 7th and Friday 10th May
and contribute to the creation of this fantastic local resource.
Cyclone bike track is an exciting new mountain biking trail situated in the heart of the North Edinburgh community (Granton, Pilton, Muirhouse). The circuit was given the green light in 2012 following a Dragons’ Den-style pitch by community activist and MY Adventure employee, Peter Airlie to a panel of investors which included representatives from coffee shop chain Starbucks, Edinburgh City Council and other businesses.
Following this, an additional £2000 was invested and the project secured support in the form of a dutiful
workforce from State Street Bank, Scottish Gas Networks & city Council Community Wardens. Together with an enthusiastic band of local volunteers Phase 1 (a short children’s track) was completed in May 2012.
Having secured further funding from the Weir Charitable Trust the Cyclone team are now ready to push forward with stage 2, the construction of a more ‘technical’ bike track.
Phase 2 will involve clearing litter, marking out the route, digging foundations and low trimming branches. The final task will be to pour in some hardcore and wind stone as required. All this will be done by hand by our committed group of staff and volunteers.
Members of the public will be able to use the track free all year round and at their own risk but MYDG’s MY Adventure will run regular training sessions to learn and develop mountain bike skills.
The Cyclone Bike Track is a fantastic local resource run by volunteers and held in trust by MYDG for the community. It is hoped that having such a fantastic facility in the local area will contribute to increased fitness, health and wellbeing amongst young people and adults. The bike track itself is situated in a beautiful setting with excellent views across the Forth estuary and will truly be an asset to a community which is to often negatively portrayed within the media or not portrayed at all.
The Cyclone Bike Track is proud to accept sponsorship in the form of volunteers and materials from Scottish Gas, Ravelrig (Tarmac) Quarry Kirknewton, Anderson Strathern Business Services and State Street Bank. The project is also extremely grateful to volunteers from Tomorrows People, The Haven Dad’s group and many thanks go to Edinburgh City Council, who will provide us with community wardens and a ranger service.
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… and maybe the next day, and the one after that … Robert Pearson explains why.
North Edinburgh Needs You!
Do you want to help your community? Are you free on Tuesday 9 October? Any hours between 10am – 3pm?
Yes, we hear you shouting – well read on and come join us on the day!
Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG) and the wider North Edinburgh community are looking for as many volunteers to join us to complete an exciting brand new project which we started on 25 September at Gypsy Brae.
This exciting adventure was made possible when MYDG negotiated a lease from City of Edinburgh Council and they decided to turn this land into Cyclone, The Biggest Bike Track (360 mtrs) in Edinburgh! Since the work started over fifty volunteers have risen to the challenge and have worked through some challenging weather conditions.
Completing this bike track will let children, families and adults practice their mountain biking and downhill skills on a great one-way circuit, with purpose-built tight bends, bumps and humps. Open all year round, members of the public can use it at their own risk but MYDG will also run regular sessions to develop the riders’ skills.
If you’re able to spare the some time on Tuesday we are meeting at Craigroyston Community High School on Pennywell Road for 10am. Lunch will be provided – hope to see as many people as possible on the day!
For more information please contact peterairlie@mydg.org.uk
