More money for Bikeability – but where are the kids going to cycle?
The other day I received an email from the Department of Transport containing some good news from the government. Funding for the Bikeability Scheme, which teaches children how to ride their bikes safely, is being doubled to allow all school children in England to receive this training. The commitment will see an additional 400,000 training…
I am a Wonderful Wild Woman!
Last year I got an email from Sarah at Wonderful Wild Women, asking me if I’d like to speak at their 4th birthday bash, which was taking place the following February. Now, for those of you who haven’t heard of Wonderful Wild Women, they’re a collective of women, doing (as you may have already guessed)…
Sprog Blog – our day watching the National Track Championships
Have you ever wondered what it’s like going to watch the cycle racing at a velodrome? 8 year old Ethan and 6 year old Lucy were lucky enough to go to see the National Track Championships which took place at the end of January 2019 at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Here’s their Sprog…
New kids books about cycling published in 2019
2019 has been a pretty good year for children’s books about cycling. There’s been new installments in popular series, plus new fiction and non-fiction books for Cycle Sprogs of all ages. Here’s our round up of the best of those new books published either in paper or electronic versions in the past 12 months. Kids…
Family Cycling Review of the Decade
As the decade draws to a close and the 2020s stretch out ahead of us, I thought it would be a good time to reflect back on what’s happened in the wonderful world of family cycling over the past ten years. When 1st January 2010 dawned the world was certainly a very different place –…
Why is a dad carrying his child by bike causing so much outrage?
There’s been outrage at a video of a man carrying a small child on a bike in Bristol, but what is really going on?