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GlasgowCentral2Queen 900m Sun 10 Mar
Motherwell-Strathy park loop 6m 5mi Sat 3 Feb
0601 0mi Sun 14 Jan
0503 1mi Sat 13 Jan
0502 2mi Sat 13 Jan
0501 4mi Sat 13 Jan
0408 1mi Sat 13 Jan
0407 1000m Sat 13 Jan
Cr01 0mi 29 Dec 2023
Gl03 1mi 27 Dec 2023

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£32m for Scottish cycle routes

9 Apr 2014

Sustrans and the Scottish Government have announced £14m of grants to build better cycle routes across Scotland. Added to an extra £18m from councils and other partners, the money will…

Bath and Glasgow get new bike-hire schemes

18 Mar 2014

The cities of Bath and Glasgow are each to get a ‘Boris bike’-style hire scheme, both to be run by German company Nextbike. Glasgow’s hire scheme will be entirely new,…

Days Out

Weekend rides

Find somewhere to cycle this weekend. Here’s our route-planner’s top picks around Glasgow:

Aldessan Gallery · 30mi round-trip
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Dumbarton Castle · 15mi one-way
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Lochwinnoch · 40mi round-trip
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National Cycle Network

Cycle routes in Glasgow

The National Cycle Network is a great way to find traffic-free routes and quiet lanes. These routes pass through Glasgow:

To Dunoon, Greenock, Armadale, Bathgate, Livingston and Edinburgh.

To Carlisle, Lockerbie and Hamilton.

To Sunderland, Washington, Stanley, Annfield Plain, Consett, Penrith, Carlisle, Annan, Dumfries, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Newton Stewart, Maybole, Ayr, Irvine, Kilwinning, Dumbarton, Alexandria, Callander, Aberfeldy, Pitlochry, Kingussie and Inverness.

To Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Falkirk, Denny and Kirkintilloch.

Knowledge

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What are the roads like? Which are the most cycle-friendly cafés? Where’s your favourite place for a Saturday afternoon spin? Share your knowledge with other local cyclists.

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A note on our PDF maps

30 Oct 2022 · 2

When you’re planning a route, cycle.travel has always offered the option to export a print-ready PDF in one of several scales. PDF maps are great as a fallback for electronic…