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Cycling

Cycling is a great sport, loved by millions around the world.

See Also:: BMX Racing

An Overview of Cycling

From young children on stabilisers, through to adults going for long countryside rides, cycling is for everyone. Sick of being stuck in traffic? Cycling to work is also one of the easiest ways to fit exercise into your daily routine. There are also a number of cycling clubs around the UK, where coffee and cake stops are as important as the route you ride!

The sport has a lot of different disciplines - BMX, Cycle Speedway, Cycle-cross, Mountain Bike, Road and Track Cycling is an excellent form of physical activity for people seeking to improve their fitness and cardiovascular health.

Benefits

Increased cardiovascular fitness
Increased muscle strength and flexibility
Improved joint mobility
Decreased stress levels
Improved posture and coordination
Strengthened bones
Decreased body fat levels
Prevention or management of disease
Reduced anxiety and depression.

Costs

Bikes can be expensive but once you have one you can cycling anywhere and everywhere.

Involvement

Just hop on a bike and you're good to go. British Cycling, have information about clubs and racing tracks, and the Breeze programme for women cyclists offers a range of safe and sociable cycle routes for all abilities. If you don't have access to a bike there are hundreds of bike rental facilities across the UK.

Equipment

Bike, Helmet, reflective clothing, lights.

Facts

In London 2012, the Great Britain Cycling Team won eight gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals which easily placed them at the top of the medal table
Great Britain Para-cycling Team won eight gold medals, nine silver medals and five bronze medals also at London 2012

This Girl Can

Tue, 01 Sep 2020

No one gets to choose how you exercise other than you. Your body, your call. And whatever that looks like, we think it’s worth celebrating.

Bikeability

Bikeability is today’s cycle training programme. It’s like cycling proficiency, but better! It’s about gaining practical skills and understanding how to cycle on today’s roads.

HSBC UK Breeze

HSBC UK Breeze offers fun, free bike rides for women of all abilities across the UK.

HSBC UK Guided Rides

Free and friendly local rides, led by knowledgeable Ride Leaders.

HSBC UK Ride Social

HSBC UK Ride Social is a brilliant way to connect with friendly local riders and explore fantastic routes together.

Let's Ride

Free bike rides to join, and great cycle routes to explore, from British Cycling and HSBC UK.

This Girl Can

This Girl Can seeks to tell the real stories of women who get active or play sport in the way that’s right for them using images that show what activity really looks like in all its glory.

Cycle Birmingham

Edgbaston PHAB

Birmingham Monarchs Cycle Speedway Club

Birmingham BMX Club

Beacon Road Cyckling Club

Cycle South Brum

We aim to get more people cycling more often.

Vision Sports Academy CIC

Vision Sports Academy CIC (VSA) is a Birmingham based sports coaching social enterprise, more specifically a community interest company which tackles social objectives & reinvests profits back into the community.

Royal Sutton Cycling Club

1st Woodville (St .Stephens) Scouts

1st Woodville (St Stephens) Scout Group is located in Woodville in the Heart of the National Forest in South Derbyshire. Join us on our adventure! Face the challenges, develop new skills, work as a team and make lasting memories.

2022 Commonwealth Games

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is perfectly positioned, sitting at the heart of the UK and standing for the diversity of the Commonwealth.

Bikeability Widening Participation Fund

1:00am - Fri 29th October, 2021

The fund will help to identify those children who don’t currently access Bikeability, address the barriers that they face to access training and seek ways to resolve these. This will then help The Trust and the Department for Transport understand how to create a programme that reaches every child.

British Cycling - The Places to Ride Programme

1:00am - Tue 16th November, 2021

The Places to Ride programme will fund the development of new or the improvement of existing cycling facilities in communities across England.

Community Activator

n this role of a Community Activator, you will:

Maintain and develop new partnerships and relationships within the local communities and with other local cycling delivery partners within Nottingham to provide British Cycling with the most effective routes to market to deliver its recreation programmes.

Develop, coordinate, and contribute to the delivery of a local recreation programme for adults, families, and children and young people. Developing the local workforce and community volunteers to ensure sustainability of the local programme.

British Cycling

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/

British Cycling Club Finder

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/clubfinder

Sustrans

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/

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