An army of Angus cyclists took an accessible toilet campaign across the county at the weekend.
Arbroath mum Lois Speed organised the event to raise awareness of the need for Changing Places toilets.
Lois’s 2014 event The Loo Tour de Britain, which raised £10,624, encouraged her to organise a more local cycling event.
The Loo Tour de Angus got under way at Arbroath Abbey on Saturday with cyclists of all different abilities taking part.
First stop on the 62-mile Big One tour was the Changing Places toilet in Montrose, before the cyclists made their way to Brechin, Forfar and then Kirriemuir, where they stopped to raise awareness of a Changing Places toilet at Webster’s Sports Centre.
Designed to be bigger and better than conventional accessible toilets, Changing Places toilets are large enough to accommodate a wheelchair and up to two carers.
The toilet design features standard fixtures of overhead hoist, peninsula toilet, basin and height adjustable changing bench.
The tour travelled from Kirriemuir to Forfar and then back to Arbroath where it finished up for the day at the Changing Places toilet at Arbroath Harbour.
Lois said she had been thrilled by the response to the event, and thanked all the supporters, including Tesco who donated a year’s supply of toilet roll as a main raffle prize.
“I can’t stress enough how crucial these toilets are. It’s 2016 and yet some people still find it difficult to have their most basic needs met, needs such as going to the toilet.
“Going out and about away from home can be very difficult and a lot of planning is involved around mapping a journey around Changing Places toilets – they are a life line and help prevent social isolation.
“We attend a lot of health appointments and some of our most difficult and traumatic experiences have been in hospitals throughout the country they often do not have a CP toilet, the right equipment or anything that comes close.”
The Loo Tour de Angus was split into two days and Sunday involved two shorter cycles — No.2 which was a 10-mile cycle from Dobbies in Monifieth to the seafront in Arbroath and Just a Wee at No. 3, a 1.5-mile journey from the seafront to Arbroath Harbour.
Lois is mum to teenagers Kelsey and Kein who, after losing much of their mobility to muscular dystrophy, require specially equipped changing rooms each time they need to use the toilet.”
