Kidical Mass is a worldwide movement. Cyclists from 0 to 99 years old take over the streets to reclaim the road space in colourful bicycle.
Kidical Mass
Let’s Ride Together to Make Streets Safer for All
Save the date! Kidical Mass Glasgow coming to the Southside on Saturday 13th September 🚴🚴🚴
Why you may ask? We don’t know about you, but we believe...
🏫 Every child should be able to cycle to school safely. Yet we lack adequate, well-connected cycling infrastructure to make this happen.
🌬 Every child deserves to breathe in clean air. Yet, 93% of Glasgow schools are in areas that violate WHO guidelines on safe air to breathe. Yikes!
🏙 Every child should be safe in our public spaces. Yet, do you feel comfortable letting your child or young person enjoy our public spaces independently?
We want to ensure our public spaces are designed to keep our kids safe, healthy and happy. Something that will benefit all of us, because safe streets for kids are safe streets for all.
Ambitious? Absolutely! But it will also be bright, bold, colourful and most importantly totally joyous. Because that’s exactly what our public spaces should be. Fun, safe, and welcoming spaces to be 💛
Pop the date in your diary and share with friends, family, neighbours, colleagues you name it!
FAQs
It will start at the Queens Park Victoria Road Entrance.
We will cycle into the city centre, then return to where we started outside the Peoples Palace.
Approximately 4.2km and takes around an hour.
Children ride on the inside of the group and adults on the outside, shielding them from traffic. We have ride leaders at the beginning and end of the group and some along the length. Our ride leaders will manage junctions so that the whole group can cross safely and as a block.
We follow the Highway Code but, where possible, we prevent the group from splitting so if a light goes red while we are crossing our marshals will politely ask cars to wait a bit so that the entire group remains together.
Parents are expected to stay next to their child throughout the ride.
Image Credits: Shawlands Bike Bus
Families, individuals. It is not suitable to bring dogs along.
Children under 16 should be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Is this ride suitable for children?
Yes. Bikes with stabilisers are not suitable, so best to bring them on their own bike or bring a trailer or cargo bike to take them on.
Yes this is a free event.
We do ask people to sign up on Plinth to help us manage numbers and so that we can look at data afterwards to see where people have come from and demographic information.
Your bike, children and their bikes, suitable clothing for the day and time of year. Snacks, water, a spare tube and tools for a roadside repair, yourself and a smile.
Will there be photos and videos taken at the event?
Yes, we’ll be capturing photos and videos to share the joy and impact of the event. If you prefer not to appear in any images, just let a member of our team know on the day — we’ll be happy to respect your wishes. 📸💛