Our Vision
We aim to provide the best tour that our guests have ever experienced – if someone only has 1 tour to do in Scotland, they should choose to do a tour with Gallus Pedals.
Our tours are designed to be the most fun, memorable, and personable tour our guests have been on.
Our tours are authentic, we make our tourists feel like locals however we make our locals feel like tourists - we unashamedly want to convince everyone that we live in a fantastic place and can inspire anyone who comes on one of our tours.
We hire guides with the personality and training to entertain you, who will naturally seek ways to make your tour extra special. Finally, for us, it’s not enough to deliver great experiences – since our inception, we wanted our business to be a force for good.
Our Guiding Principles
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Connection – forging a genuine connection between place, guests, and guide. Our tours also provide a deep local connection: our initial fleet of bikes are all named after (not so) famous Glaswegian women, the majority of whom were working class and as part of the tour and post-trip experience, guests get to take home a unique life story – written in conjunction with Glasgow Women’s Library.
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Individuality – focus on every individual as much as possible - recognizing that everyone has a valued and unique perspective to bring which enables guides to unleash their full potential and also for guests to bring us new ideas…this helps us to discover new places, stuff going on, forgotten stories and learning things about other places in the World
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Fun & friendly – we believe that tours and work should be both fun and friendly…we think this is the best way to do work and be more productive. We expect everyone to be on first-name terms as early as possible on our tour. We believe that engaging with people will create a much more enriching experience for everyone involved.
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Positive impact – we believe every business should positively impact the world. From our inception, we worked with the Cycle of Good charity to source bikes from landfill and donate to social enterprises in Africa. Our low-impact tours include bike, e-bike, and walking options to reduce motorized transport, and we partner with sustainable local businesses. To cut waste, we’ve eliminated single-use bottles, promote reusable ones, and adopted a paperless booking and waiver-signing process. We collaborate with charities like Women on Wheels, Mary’s Meals—helping provide over 2,500 school meals in the developing world—and Bike for Good.
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Be Gallus - we’re always pushing to make everything we do that extra bit Gallus – can we be bolder? Can we try something brand new? Can we take this tour and make it extra Gallus?
