York Bike Belles, York’s cycling community for women, launches their “3 women 3 bikes 3 months” scheme this week to inspire more women to combine travel and exercise. Three local women who are new to cycling, have been given three bikes and asked to blog about their journey into cycling over the next three months.
The scheme, which is supported by the charity Sustrans and City of York Council’s i-Travel York initiative, launches with a new video this week.
Only 1 in 4 cyclists are women and 75% of women never cycle at all. Recent research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that the biggest threat to women’s health was physical inactivity.