Stage 10: Our final day in Glasgow

Erin Powell | 2. October 2025

And suddenly it’s our final day! The tour has taken us all across the country and given us the opportunity to meet so many people along the way and discuss the importance of sustainable practices and initiatives that go beyond the igus:bike.

We have seen various customers that are experts in their fields, so we felt it was only appropriate to include the education sector.

University of Glasgow

Gilles Bailet is a Lecturer in Space Technology at Glasgow university’s James Watt School of Engineering. He leads pioneering research in microgravity 3D printing, developing systems that enable manufacturing directly in space using granular materials. The Manufacturer published a story from igus on Gilles and his team as they worked to make space construction possible with 3D printing which you can read here: Space construction made possible with 3D printing.

What better place to kick off the final day than Glasgow University? The University was founded in 1451 and is the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world! The University has produced some of the brightest minds and has been the founding location for many innovations such as one of the first electrically lit houses on campus in 1881 pioneered by Lord Kelvin and the world’s first hospital x-ray department opened by graduate John McIntyre in 1896.

And that’s a wrap!

And after a very full two weeks, the UK leg of the tour is complete! We have explored over 1600 kms of the UK from the sights of London to the hills of Wales, from historic stops in Yorkshire to finishing in Scotland. What we can say is that the bike raised some eye brows along the way. People stopped us in the street to discuss it, ask questions, or to have a go and discovering that it was not an electric bike but made from recycled plastics, created nothing but positivity towards it.

We have loved having it in the UK and to be fair, the British weather was uncharacteristically kind to us with only one day of rain over the 2 weeks, wonders will never cease!

Riders

Rob Day

Rob Day is our dryspin product manager for igus UK. He has worked for here for 10 years and for most of that time he covered Scotland as the bearing sales engineer. He was delighted at the opportunity to do a stage of the tour and to be able show off the igus bike and some of Scotland’s wonderful landmarks