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According to an article published by BBC Sport, cycling is now deemed as the ‘new golf’. Figures show that golf participation has fallen dramatically recently, cycling has grown substantially. Many people have put two and two together and put the growth of cycling down to people putting down their golf clubs and getting on a bike instead. Sport England’s figures suggest that sales of cycling related gifts will rocket this Christmas. Results found that there were more than two million adults cycling at least once a week between April 2013 and April 2014 compared 710,400 taking to the golf course…. Read more

UK cycling networks in line to receive £200m funding boost. More than £200m will be spent on encouraging and developing cycling in an attempt to make the UK a cycling nation of bike lovers similar to Denmark and the Netherlands. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg is set to reveal the funding news at a cycling summit in Bristol in a move hoped to appeal to his party’s natural support base. Many of this base have already switched to Labour or the Green party since 2010. Clegg had previously made the statement that he wished to see the number of… Read more