Ricky’s Bicycle Tours

Ricky’s Bicycle Tours Resident Rate £4.00 discount on From the City to the Shore of Leith tour.

Absolutely, best of luck to Stuart in the Trans Alba Race 2024! Covering over 1000 miles is an incredible challenge, and we’re all rooting for him as he takes on this epic journey. With number 26, Go, Stuart, go! 🚴‍♂️

☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Summer in Scotland means Smiles for Miles🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️

Topping up the tan every time we go out 😎 Great times with new friends! Get some summer sun while you can...

Edinburgh residents can now get a discount on our guided bike tours of the city, using their own bikes or one of our standard bikes or e-bikes. It’s a fun and environmentally friendly way to see parts of the city even locals may not be familiar with! 😊

Head over to the Forever Edinburgh website to find out more. 🚲

Yesterday afternoon, we organised a fam trip for our friends at VisitScotland, the Tourist Information Centre, Rabbie’s, Headwater Holidays, Spectra DMC and JacTravel. We did a guided bike tour of Edinburgh – we cycled through the New Town, before heading down to Leith, then along the coast to Portobello, before returning back into town via Holyrood Park, the Innocent Railway Tunnel and the Meadows. 🚲

The tour ended at the lovely restaurant in Bruntsfield, where we enjoyed an evening of amazing Italian food and drinks. 🥂🍕🍝

Yesterday, we asked how many buckets of water our followers think we use on a weekly basis to clean our bikes (we have 34 bikes in total). 🚲

The answer is that we only use 1 bucket of water on average each week to clean our bikes! 🪣

Our tours don’t create dirty bikes, so brushing them off is usually sufficient, and it means that we save on water as part of our commitment to sustainable tourism and being as environmentally friendly as possible. ♻️

Guided bike tours of Edinburgh

Exciting news - we are so proud to announce that we have achieved a Green Tourism Silver Award! 🥳
 
It means that our efforts to offer tours that are as sustainable as possible – environmentally, socially and economically - have been recognised by a world-leading third-party accreditation. ♻️
 
Well done to the whole team at Ricky’s Bicycle Tours, and a massive thank you to the team for supporting us on this journey!
 
We will continue to set new sustainability goals and develop new products to ensure we continue to be as sustainable as we possibly can. In the meantime, you can be confident that when you go on one of our tours, you are supporting and !

We usually stop for a short break at a café on our guided bike tours of Edinburgh, so our guests can enjoy some coffee or tea. 🫖☕️🚲

We always stop at locally owned cafes that source their food and drink locally, to make sure we support the local community.

One of our favourite cafés in Edinburgh is the Leith Community Croft – we love their ethos of building community and food growing, and making healthy food and nature accessible to the people of Leith.

It also helps that they have a lovely menu of sweet treats and vegan / vegetarian food, and we can never say no to their lovely cakes. 🍰😋

If you haven’t discovered the Leith Community Croft yet – check them out next time you find yourself in Leith!

Yesterday we were joined by a few lovely representatives from AC Group, ASA, TourDesk, the Edinburgh Tourist Information Centre and Visit Scotland on a fam trip of Edinburgh.

Along the way, we stopped at the amazing Leith Community Cafe for some much needed sustenance. ☕️🍰

It was a lovely afternoon, experiencing our guided bike tours of Edinburgh. 🚲

Exploring Edinburgh on a guided bike tour is one of the most environmentally friendly sightseeing options available to visitors, but the team at Ricky’s Bicycle Tours are also committed to responsible and sustainable tourism in all other areas of the business.

For example, we vet our suppliers to ensure they have sustainability policies and ethical business practices in place, we reuse and recycle everything we use, we support local businesses, for example by only stopping at locally owned cafés as part of our tours, and we visit lesser-known areas on our guided bike tours.

Responsible tourism has always been part of our ethos and we thought it would be nice to have this recognised, so we have recently started the Green Tourism accreditation process, and we are currently awaiting our grading.

If you are not familiar with Green Tourism, it is the world’s largest sustainable certification programme of its kind, and they have been delivering sustainability accreditation and support for the tourism sector for over 25 years.

Having a Green Tourism award means that when you book one of our guided bike tours in Scotland, you can be confident that you are contributing to protecting the environment and supporting the local community in Edinburgh.

Its Reviews Day Tuesday! We welcomed the wonderful Sue and Ralph from Phoenix, Arizona and had a great few hours on our guided bike tour of Edinburgh. They especially liked getting out of the city and down to the coast, which is always a highlight...and yes, there is usually at least one person taking a dip in the water 😮 Thanks guys, it was a pleasure having you with us! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy International Women's Day! 🥳
It's a great day for us to remember all of our wonderful female guests on our guided bike tours in Edinburgh and Scotland at large. We thank each and every one of you and hope you enjoy the day! 😃

❤️ Happy Valentines Day! ❤️

There is no doubt that Edinburgh, and Scotland in general, is one of the greatest romantic destinations on Earth.

The architecture, the atmosphere and the great history make for the perfect romantic getaway! We welcome many couples on our guided bike tours, looking for a great way to see the city and beyond and we know they have a fantastic time sharing the time together.

We'd like to wish a very Happy Valentines Day to everyone, all over the world. We hope you have a lovely day and are looking forward to or remembering your trip to Edinburgh ❤️

It’s very rare that we get snow in Edinburgh, which makes it the perfect city to cycle in at any time of the year, but when we do get snow, Edinburgh looks possibly even more beautiful than usual.

What do you prefer, Edinburgh in summer or winter? ☀️❄️

Swipe to the end to see some feedback on one of our winter tours – a guided bike tour really is the best way to see Edinburgh in our opinion. 🚲

1 and 2 - Ross Fountain
3 and 4 - St Andrew Square
5 and 6 - Dean Village
7 and 8 - Burns Monument

Last week, we asked our followers on Instagram what their favourite place in Scotland is, and the results are in!

Do you agree with the result? Would you have voted differently?

Did you know that at Ricky’s Bicycle Tours, we guarantee that your tour goes ahead, as we don’t have a minimum number policy? So even if you are the only person who has booked one of our guided bike tours, the tour will still run.

It doesn’t happen very often, and we may contact you to let you know you would be the only traveller and give you the option to switch to another time if you prefer company – but if you are happy with it, the tour goes ahead.

This means that you don’t have to worry about any disappointing last-minute cancellations due to minimum numbers, and you can be confident that if you book with us, you will go on a tour.

We would only ever cancel a tour due to extraordinary circumstances that are beyond our control, or if there are safety concerns – not because of low numbers.

Is your New Year’s resolution to be more active and eco-friendly?

Do you live in Edinburgh, or do you plan to visit Scotland in 2024?

In that case, why not book a guided bike tour with us? It’s an eco-friendly way to experience Edinburgh and The Trossachs, on a standard or electric bike.

Even better, you get 10% off any of our scheduled tours in 2024 if you book today (January 1, 2024)!

Instructions on how to book are in the last image.

Enjoy 10% off our scheduled bikes tours in Scotland for 2024 with promo code RICKYS10.

Scroll to the last image for details on how to redeem this offer.

Are you struggling to think of Christmas presents for your friends or family in Edinburgh? Or do you know someone who is planning on travelling to Edinburgh soon?

Why not give them the gift of an activity instead of something that will gather dust on a shelf or be thrown in a drawer somewhere…?

A gift card for a guided bike tour of Edinburgh is the perfect Christmas present – it’s an environmentally friendly way to see the city, you would be supporting a local business, and it’s a great way to explore the beautiful city of Edinburgh, both the iconic landmarks but also off the beaten path.

Make sure to share this post with your friends and followers who are struggling to come up with gift ideas (especially if this is something you would like for Christmas yourself… 😉)

Just click on “book now” on our website and choose gift cards.

Happy birthday to our guide Stu! 🥳

A massive thanks for his amazing and professional work at Ricky’s Bicycle Tours, but also celebrating our strong friendship that’s taken us to where we are today, with lots of great success and fun along the way.

Enjoy your special day and eat lots of birthday cake Stu! 🎂

Happy St Andrew’s Day to all of our followers around the world!

Did you know that St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and it is his cross that gives us our national flag, the Saltire? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish Saltire was conceived in 832AD, making it the oldest flag in Europe. It depicts the St Andrews Cross as it appeared in the sky above a battle which united Picts and Scots to create what we now call Scotland!

St Andrew’s Day is the perfect excuse to enjoy some whisky, haggis and shortbread or even book a trip to Scotland for yourself.

We are Ricky and Stuart and we are proud to be celebrating from here in Edinburgh, Scotland!

Our guided bike tour company is a two-man operation and by putting our visitors first, providing history, stories and adventure through cycling, we have been able to create a successful, eco-friendly and extremely enjoyable alternative to explore the spectacular City of Edinburgh and beyond.

We thank each and every one of our guests so far and look forward to welcoming many more in the future.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating from the Ricky’s team! 🦃🍁