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Six UK Towns are actively promoting cycling but the UK still lags behind mainland Europe in the acceptance of cycling.
They say cycling is the new golf no longer just for kids on their first bike but the growing pastime of choice for the more mature Rider as well and exor is one of six towns in England capitalizing on and trying to encourage that here they’ve created new cycle
Leans and offer cycle training they’ve seen the number of Journeys made by bike increase by more than a third in the past four years there’s been you know Decades of underinvestment in cycling in the UK and the trends were more and more to towards um two car families and it’s
It’s just a slow process of changing people’s minds back things like the Olympic success that we had last year and the you know famous British cyclists we getting like Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy are really starting to change change habits but an online ride between cyclists and the celebrity chef James
Martin this week told another story a claim that the chef had taken pleasure in running a group of riders off the road provoked a vitriolic response on sites such as Twitter and Facebook with cyclists pointing out the dangers and prejudices they say they still face on the road of
Britain it’s all a far cry from the more relaxed attitude seen in some other countries Britain still has some way to catch up with Continental Europe here in Tuscany for example it’s not about the bike lanes and bylaws it’s more about a culture cycling here is a way of life
Here cyclists of all ability and ages are on a level with drivers and pedestrians which is partly why so many of Britain’s top Riders have chosen to base themselves here where the lifestyle is conducive to cycling you can get out on the bike every day and you can do
Three 4 hours and you can just lose yourself and it’s done uh obviously the food’s a lot better and healthy and the lifestyle is really good for a bike rider it’ be nice if there was a setup at home with a climate change it might be possible but yeah at the moment I
Don’t think so but the excitement surrounding VI Year’s tour Britain shows there is a growing support for cycling the challenge is to give the sport equal place on our roads as our winners [Applause] rary Sky News