cycling community

Sarah Holt was a keen cyclist as a youngster, but only recently returned to cycling, riding 300 miles from London to Paris in aid of St Helena Hospice. This experience, coupled with moving house nearer to the town centre, has made cycling part of her life again.

Kelli Schmalenbach is a first year student at the University of Essex, and one of the first things she did on arriving on campus was buy a bike from Re-Cycle.

This month we interview Darius Laws, a photographer and video producer who’s also a Colchester Borough Councillor and a keen cyclist.

This month we talk to Jacqui Stone, manager of Essex Rural Training, who represented Britain in the 2017 UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in France this August, just three years after getting her first proper road bike.

Read Wolf’s insirational story about how cycling has transformed his mobility. Find out about the e-bikes he has built, his campaigning for better cycle links particularly between towns and his lobbying for ebikes to be recognised as a mobility aid. ‘Getting the bus is causing me big problems, but cycling is good. Going to work by bus I’m sitting down for an hour and a half and I’d have to take painkillers before going to work, but not when I’m cycling.’

Find out why Jess Douglas loves to cycle and why she recommends level 3 Bikeability even if you have been cycling for years.

The photo includes Steve Carswell Bikeability Instructor and Jim Rayner, cycling advocate from Colchester Institute who also undertook level 3 Bikeability at the same time.

‘I love the interaction with other road users – I’ve learnt that it is important to be confident and make eye contact with other road users – if you make eye contact, it proves you’re human.’ Laura Pountney talks to us about how cycling is so central to her and her family.