Get involved…

The Festival team is here to facilitate the events program, and encourage your ideas. This festival is for EVERYONE by EVERYONE,  from the Brompton enthusiast to extreme trick-bikers,  bike tourers to those who have never ridden a bike before. We welcome anything people-powered on wheels too – trikes, scooters, wheelchairs and pushchairs! Here’s the many ways to get involved at this stage:

Organise an event, however large or small

This festival is effectively a fringe festival – i.e. the sum of its parts, and YOUR events are the parts! Think of an idea for an event, feel free to get in touch with us. You can contact us via the contacts page. When you have a firm plan for an event, submit it to the official events calendar HERE.
» Submit an event

Get a carnival troupe together for the Carnivelo

Create a group of cycling people to join in with the procession.  » More Carnival Info

Join the festival team – do you have skills or time to offer?

Get in contact if you would like to get involved via the contacts page. This is a community festival and we welcome involvement and help.
» Contact BCF

Organise / lead a ride or bike tour

Many of the Festival events are likely to be rides, small and large, easy and technical, around city and countryside. Ideas about cycling between city farm open days, art and history tours, and even games are already on the cards. We welcome ideas for families beginners and explorers. We will have a guide to organising rides on this site soon.

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Get together with friends, neighbours, work colleagues or new bike friends through the facebook page to organise an event of any kind. It can be anywhere – at work, in your local park, a ride through the countryside or around the city, community centre’s. If you have an idea, but are not sure how to realise it, get in touch. We can offer advice about how to organise an event, safety and planning.

Some ideas from last year to get your cogs moving:

  • Pedalo racing in the docks
  • Bike decorating workshops
  • History of Bristol bike tours
  • Bicycle Rikshaws between BrisFest and Bristol Do festivals
  • Cycle film festival
  • Tandem buddy rides with the visually impaired
  • Pedal-powered stages
  • Bike ballet
  • Safety demonstrations
  • Mini bike jousting
  • IgFest games on bikes
  • Special train for cycling to Avonmouth for return cycle ride
  • Open day for farms across Bristol with rides between
  • The UK’s first bike dedicated carnival
  • Extreme Bike demonstrations