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Top 5 Cycling Holidays

Love Cycling? Love going on holiday? A lot of people won’t associate going on holiday with doing exercise but for those of us that do, here is a list of the top 5 cycling holidays. Cycling holidays in… UK 1. Lake District The Lake District has long been a popular destination for walkers and climbers but many are unaware of the bike trails, winding bridleways and single paths that are available for cyclists. People travel from across the globe to get a glimpse of the breathtaking scenery the Lake District has to offer and its all here on your doorstep!… Read more

13th May 2015 0

Tour de Yorkshire: Another Cycling Success

Tour de Yorkshire cycling Success

Last year we kept you up to date with all the cycling news surrounding the Tour de France – one of the greatest events in the cycling calendar. Well, we believe that the Tour de France now has some competition after Britain’s much anticipated Tour de Yorkshire. All eyes were focused on Yorkshire over the bank holiday weekend, as many cyclists took to its roads to take part in the ‘Tour de Yorkshire’, a race which has been born from the success of last year’s Tour de France. The race saw 141 riders including Britain’s Sir Bradley Wiggins complete a… Read more

5th May 2015 0

Is it time we went Dutch?

At a time when it looks like our love of cycling is being reborn in the UK, we have looked back on cycling our history and where we perhaps went wrong. From the late Victorian period onwards the bicycle represented freedom. But what changed this? And why did our love of cycling fade for such a long time? It is suggested that it was (and still is) our car culture that saw to the demise of bikes across Britain. Civil engineer and planner Professor Colin Buchanan wrote a highly influential transport report for the government in 1963, when cycling in… Read more

8th April 2015 0

#ChooseCycling Network

A host of Britain’s largest businesses are set to join forces with British Cycling to write an open letter to party leaders asking them to support cycling improvements. Companies including Sky, GlaxoSmithKline and The AA have been brought together by British Cycling to form the #ChooseCycling network. An open letter to party leaders asking for funding commitments ahead of the May general election has been published, with around 5% of Britain’s transport budget being requested to be designated for improving the cycling infrastructure. Chris Boardman, the British Cycling policy adviser has said that now is the perfect opportunity for party… Read more

23rd March 2015 0