Cyclestreets.net is a brilliant little website for bicyclists. Just enter where you are and where you want to go and it will take you a proper cyclists route, tell you the distance, how quiet or otherwiseit will be and how many calories you will burn completing it.
This is extraordinary. You can actually choose a route to avoid unnecessary hills. Excellent for the part-time cyclist!
Bicycle Shops or Bicycle Accessories Outlets or Cycle Repairers
Trek and Travel
15-17 Bridge St, Kirkwall KW15 1HR, UK – 01856 874505
Women in shop helped us to find an other shop to buy something would recommend as friendly staff
Great
Cycle Orkney
Tankerness Ln, Kirkwall KW15 1AQ, UK – 01856 875777
Really good store for bike rental. The propriators are really nice, we had a flat and when they came to switch the bike they gave a ride back to the lazy guy in our group.
Kept hold of our bikes whilst we visited the town and then bought some lights from the shop. Great customer service and shop has reasonable prices. Thank you
The Orcadian Bookshop
50 Albert St, Kirkwall KW15 1HQ, UK – 01856 878000
I was hoping there would be a good bookshop in Kirkwall and I was not disappointed. The shop is quite large and you can take your time to peruse the books, maps that they sell. I bought two books one to encourage me to get out walking next time I visit. The other was to do with Scapa Flow and the brave who lost their lives during the war.
Well stocked "proper" bookshop. They had the maps we sought, also. Excellent
Cycle Hire
Orkney Car Hire
17 Junction Rd, Kirkwall KW15 1JY, UK – 01856 872866
Extremely helpful. Staff very friendly and courteous. Would recommend. I was only there for a day and from pick up to drop off it was perfect. The car was very clean and tidy.
Despite the fact that I gave them the wrong date they managed to find out when I would arrive and had a car for me. Friendly, efficient helped make our visit to the island perfect
Europcar UK Ltd
Ferry Terminal Bldg, The Pier, Kirkwall KW15 1TH, UK – 0871 384 9900
Europcar Kirkwall
Castle Street Castle Garage, Kirkwall KW15 1HD, UK – 01856 876262
Bicycling Safety Video
Lots of little tips you might not have thought of - from Ireland.