Learn about Cycle Sprog - the family cycling and kids bike website

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Cycle Sprog is a website all about cycling with kids, which husband and wife team Chris Jones and Karen Gee set up in 2012. As parents of two young boys, they had been through five years of transporting one and then two children by bike - firstly for fun at weekends, and later as a method of getting to school each morning, and doing away with the daily “find a car parking space within two miles of the school” challenge.

The idea for Cycle Sprog emerged out of frustration at the considerable time they were spending online trying to find solutions to our transport needs each time one of the boys grew.

“When we were moving from a trailer to a tag along and front seat combination, we were moaning about how little information there was online for parents who want to cycle with their children” says Chris.

“When we realized just how much time we’d spent over the years looking up advice and finding places to buy seats, trailers, clothing and accessories the idea of creating a family cycling website aimed specifically for parents was born.”

Cycle Sprog - the family cycling website

At Cycle Sprog we aim to provide an online ‘handbook’ for parents containing all the information they need to get cycling with their children. The website launched in 2012 as a small blog about cycling with very young children, and over the intervening years we've grown to be the UK's leading resource on cycling with kids, of all ages and abilities. At the same time Karen and Chris's boys have grown and the type of cycling they're able to do has become more adventurous too!

We don't sell any products directly on Cycle Sprog, instead at each step in the family cycling journey we provide friendly advice on the range of equipment that’s available and links to online retailers to make purchasing hassle free.

However we firmly believe that your local bike shop provides the personal service and skills that just can’t be found anywhere else and for this reason we also recommend local and independent retailers where possible. For some of the links to retailers we will get a small commission if you purchase a product, which pays for the ongoing costs of hosting and maintaining the website. Where a product has been provided to us for review we will always let you know this.

We also now accept sponsored content, but always from brands who share the same passion for cycling with children that we have. This, along with advertising income, is what allows us to keep running the website.

We're also grateful for the support of our wonderful readers who buy us cups of coffee to keep us going! As Cycle Sprog is constantly evolving, we'd love to hear if you have any ideas on what else you’d like to see on this family cycling website.

If you'd like to get involved in writing an article about your family cycling experiences please do drop us a line at [email protected].

Karen Gee

Karen loves cycling and writing, and when she was at school wanted to be a writer for a living. After a career in the voluntary sector and then as a project manager for an insurance company her dream finally came true when she started working full time for Cycle Sprog in 2018. Karen also writes blogs for other cycling websites and family publications, having provided content for organisations such as Cycling UK, Sustrans and British Cycling as well as more bespoke publications looking for advice on cycling with children. She was named one of Cycling UK's "100 Women in Cycling 2019".

Saskia Heijltjes

Saskia joined Cycle Sprog in 2022 as Content Editor. She has a background in digital content management and has previously worked in Higher Education and charities. She is in charge of the amazing wealth of information we've got on our website and will be providing you with lots of new and improved articles.

Originally from the Netherlands, cycling is in Saskia's DNA and she kept cycling when moving to the UK about ten years ago. She's based in Bath and cycles everywhere with her two small children either in the cargo bike or on their own (balance) bikes.

In her free time, Saskia is involved in campaigning for safe cycling infrastructure and has set up Kidical Mass in Bath. On these family-friendly cycle rides people of all ages come together to celebrate cycling and call for safer streets for everyone. Saskia was also named one of Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling in 2022.

Emily Wormald

Emily joined Cycle Sprog in October 2023 as our Review and Rides Editor. Joining us from instructing and sales within the Outdoor industry she moved from focusing on getting young people climbing mountains and paddling on lakes, to the world of family cycling. Emily is also a qualified Mountain Bike Guide and Coach and loves to guide gravel and mountain bike rides and was named one of Cycling UK's 100 Women in cycling in 2022.

At age 8, after growing out of her tag-a-long, and getting a hand-me-down heavy bike that was too big for her, Emily became firmly anti-cycling, making family cycling pretty tricky. She knows the importance of having the right bike and the impact that can have on a child's enjoyment of cycling.

Outside of work, Emily saw the need for community and confidence building for women in her local community, so she founded the Lakes Gravel Gang in 2021. The Lakes Gravel Gang is now a community of hundreds of women riding bikes together and building confidence on two wheels- one cafe ride at a time! Emily hopes to bring this community and confidence building to the world of Cycle Sprog and family cycling.

Mildred Locke

Mildred joined the Cycle Sprog team in September 2023 as Digital Editor, responsible for overseeing our buying guides and revenue-generating content. She's been a cycling journalist since 2018, cutting her teeth at Bikeradar before writing for an array of cycling publications, including Cyclingnews, Singletrack, MBR and Red Bull, just to name a few.

When it comes to cycling, Mildred's a bit of a dabbler, enjoying all types of bikes and disciplines, though she's mainly a utilitarian cyclist based in Bristol, who also enjoys long bikepacking trips and feeling the crunch of gravel beneath her tyres. She spent four years as a director of The Bristol Bike Project, and co-founded Routing For Ya, a women- and enby-led cycling community. She was also named one of Cycling UK's 100 Women in cycling in 2021.

Chris Jones

With an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering and a love of everything to do with wheeled transport (bikes, cars, motorbikes etc), it was inevitable that Chris would want to cycle with his children. When he gave up work to become full time dad, a rear bike seat was his first purchase.

Now, over 13 years later the boys don't need him quite so much so he spends most of his time with bikes, either in his role as Cycle Sprog's Technical Editor (reviewing and photographing the best kids bikes and accessories on the market), or indulging his passion for bringing old road bikes back to life.

Steve Chapman

Steve is a contributor of words and a consultant on paid social media activity as well as being a technical advisor on all things children's cycling. Steve spent nearly six years at children's bike specialist Islabikes where he experienced the whole gamut of job roles, including Workshop, Technical Support and latterly the marketing department as the Events and PR Manager.

Steve is a fully qualified mountain bike guide and mechanic based in Shropshire, where he runs a mountain bike coaching and guiding company called Rewild MTB. You can follow Steve's many bike-packing adventures on his Instagram.

Ewen Turner

After over a decade in the outdoor sector as an instructor, coach and guide, Ewen accidentally became a journalist in the mountain bike world and has now mixed it all together, working in media, marketing and journalism. With two young kids on bikes and extensive experience of testing and writing about cycling, the time is perfect for him to be creating the best reviews, advice and content on kids bikes.

When not reviewing bikes and kit, Ewen looks after our Instagram account to keep you all up to date on the latest developments and news at Cycle Sprog.

Cycle Sprog contributors

We're really lucky to have some amazing contributors to Cycle Sprog, who are keen cycling parents who want to share that joy with others. We're also blessed with a fabulous Facebook following, who kindly share their experiences and photos with us to help make the website much more inclusive and informative than we could make it with just our experiences. We can't list everyone who's written for us or contributed their knowledge, there's far too many. However special mention goes to our two long term and dedicated guest bloggers, Emma Young and Kathryn Yates, as well as to our own Cycle Sprogs.

Want to write us a guest blog?

We're always looking for parents (and Cycle Sprogs) who are willing to share their experiences of cycling - please get in touch if you'd like to write an article. We've even got a special Sprog Blog section just for younger bloggers!