The club runs a range of events and activities that people keen on taking up the sport can get involved in.
This comes after Fife Council previously conducted a two-day survey monitoring twelve key entry points around the city. Its results showed that there was a 68.55 per cent increased in cyclists compared to last year.
Cycling saw its biggest growth at the St Margaret’s Drive underpass in Dunfermline Public Park, which recorded 44 cyclists, followed by Moodie Street with 37.
Stuart Dalgarno, of Dunfermline Cycling Club, said: “we have a Saturday and a Sunday club ride, what we call a bun run.
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“We call it a bun run because you go out and it’s a kind of social ride, it’s a kind of social pace.
“We go out and we stop about a café somewhere, have a bacon roll and a coffee and a blether. Those rides tend to be between 40 and 60 miles, so they’re on Saturdays and Sundays.”
The club also has mid-week rides on a Tuesday and a Thursday and have taken groups to the Velodrome in Glasgow. In total they currently have around 230 members.
Stuart added: “Rachel who’s our women’s secretary, she’s done a couple of women only rides, to try and encourage more women because it is a male dominant sport.
“Rachel’s seen really good success from that.”
There could be a number of reasons why cycling has seen a rise in Dunfermline, and Stuart explained that the cycle to work scheme has encouraged a boost in the pastime.
He told the Press: “There are a number of companies doing the cycle to work scheme, it’s a means of buying a bike interest free over a period of I think normally a year.
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“It’s done on a salary sacrifice basis, so this is a thing that was introduced maybe 15 years ago, but it’s become a lot more popular recently.
“So the way it works is that you buy the bike and they take the VAT off it, the government forfeits the VAT on the bike, and you make the payments on the bike before you pay tax.
“It works out you pay roughly I think between 50 and 60 per cent of the price of the bike but you pay it over the period of the year, interest free, but that’s encouraged things quite a bit as well.
“You can see them doing more and more in Dunfermline to create safe places for people to cycle.
“There’s the likes of the cycle path between Crossgates and the top of Aberdour Road, there’s cycle path along Aberdour Road and they’re extending that, they’ve improved the path between Cairneyhill and Crossford.
“There’s more and more safe places for people to cycle.”