September 22, 2009 – 8:44 am
One of the top conclusions of the Beauty and the Bike project is that young women want more cycle lanes when roads are busy and dangerous.
Sustrans, the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, has started a petition on their BikeBelles website that encourages women to cycle.
They interviewed ‘over 1000 women to find out what they believed [...]
September 13, 2009 – 2:13 pm
Today, some of the Beauty and the Bike girls led out the Tour of Britain from the centre of Darlington. Nice excuse to show that there are other ways to cycle. You can spot them by their lack of helmet.
September 2, 2009 – 9:12 am
Darlington Cycling Campaign has been awarded one of just three New Ideas Fund grants to build on the work of the Beauty and the Bike project. The Campaign’s submission is for a bike pool of the kind of dutch-style bikes that are proving so popular amongst young women who want to cycle.
With funding for between [...]