Exploring the Glasgow cycling community 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚴‍♀️ | Stage Four 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women

Learn more about the cycling community within the host city for the fourth and final stage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women 2025; Glasgow.

00:00 – Sunny Cycles
02:00 – Women On Wheels
02:57 – Dales Cycles
04:10 – Thoughts on Tour Of Britain

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] i’m Carol Thompson and I run Sunny Cycles which is a cycling charity based in Glasgow sunny Cycles is just a new charity we’ve been going for about 2 years and we teach adults and kids how to ride bikes and we help people just to get cycling and feel confident about cycling we’ve got regular lessons and skills sessions and rides which help people to get confident on a bike and we help people to get to know all the cycle paths um and where to go on their bike we’ve also got a lot of adaptive bikes for people with disabilities and those who can’t ride a two-heer and we do skill sessions and um just hire out the bike so that people can come and use them in their own time i’ve been involved in cycling for a number of years now and although Sunny Cycles is just a new charity I am a founding member of Glasgow Gal cycling club and I’ve been involved in community cycling for the last kind of 8 to 10 years as well people always ask me oh what’s your favorite route and I’ve realized recently that I don’t have a favorite route but I really like taking people out in a bike who maybe thought they wouldn’t be able to cycle or taking people to a place that they’ve never been and they didn’t know they could get there by bike i always think of cycling as such a sociable activity i never ride alone these days i’m always out with other people or taking other people out in a bike or helping people to get cycling at Sunny Cycles a lot of what we do is helping people to get on a bike who didn’t think they’d be able to get on a bike so again helping people to access a disability bikes we even have a bike that can take a wheelchair on the front and our sideby-side bike I was on it the other day with lady from Care Home on it and turns out she was 99 years old and she didn’t think she would get to go on a bike again and just when you have people like that um getting on a bike and it brings back a lot of memories for them and um they love it so much there’s so many women who say I don’t cycle cuz I don’t want to go on the roads and I always say well you don’t have to sometimes it’s more that social aspect of going for a cup of tea and having a chat so I’m Katherine Corey i’m the families coordinator here at Women on Wheels in Governill Glasgow women on Wheels is a community cycling hub for women we are run by women our board are women and our participants are women we were set up three years ago by Shagua Anoir um who started a group called the hijabi riders in Glasgow she started cycling with her community and saw that there was a need for women to have a space where they felt comfortable to cycle together and gain confidence a regular week in women on wheels is chaos uh you are here in our tiny hub um so it’s really busy in here with lessons and lead rides and it’s a really nice atmosphere we run on a pay what you can basis so we get funding which means that we can provide activities and and you don’t need to pay for it um if you can’t cuz we don’t want there to be financial barriers to cycling my name is Jonathan Allen uh I’ve been at Dales for uh 19 years dale Cycles have been uh in business here in Glasgow since 1912 uh so we’re the uh longest established bike shop in the west of Scotland dales offers uh I think a fairly unique service in the west uh that we have kids bikes from sort of 12 in right through to superb bikes at £12,000 and more uh we have uh great workshop team uh we have bike fitting we have clothing accessories uh co uh was an absolute boom time and I think industrywide where we have all these bikes today uh at the end of co we had 16 units on the shop floor cycling’s big uh we have a lot of long long established clubs with the coming of the Glasgow Verome uh which uh for me is still a dream in fact for the uh the 2014 games uh that’s been a great springboard for youngsters coming through i think the girls that we see coming up through the ranks will be inspired uh to see their superstars uh on the streets just as the boys and the families have been in the past uh it’s uh I think it’ll be a great thing for the city people are interested in coming out and watching these cycling events um so it’s really important that um and great that Glasgow is able to host them as well there is an appetite to come out and watch these events and to support the riders as well um and especially Scottish riders as well so I think it’ll be really good i hope that when the tour of Britain comes here it will inspire more women to um come to organizations like ours and some of the others that you’re meeting i know that we have got a young participant who’s been coming here she’s 10 she’s been coming here just over a year and she learned to pedal with us with her mom and she um recently came to something and and asked me how she can could get to the Olympics so you know it shows you know there she wasn’t riding a bike a year ago and now you know she’s regularly coming to things here and see being inspired