カテゴリー: Cycling
The first woman to land a backflip in competition, Robin Goomes grew up on a remote island off New Zealand and sold possum furs to buy her first dirt bike aged 10Growing up in the remote Chatham Islands, about 800km off the coast of New Zealand, Robin …
From an exuberant mountaineering woman to a boy representing unheard refugees, here are some of the brave individuals that gave us hopeNine years ago, Cecilia Llusco was one of 11 Indigenous women who made it to the summit of the 6,088 metre-high Huayn…
Students, mostly on public share bikes, rode several hours through Henan province from their campuses in Zhengzhou to the ancient city of Kaifeng, singing and cheering on the way. The trend started in June when four Zhengzhou university students decide…
A lesson from India | Superficial self-care | On yer bike | Sunak SunkRe commemorating slave traders (Letters, 22 September), wandering out the back of the Government Museum in Chennai, India, I chanced on a couple of abandoned statues of imperial maje…
The secretive state demands each cycle display a registration number – although officially women are banned from bikes• UK cyclists could be made to have registration platesIf the British transport secretary, Grant Shapps, is looking for a “model” for …
A bicycle boom has seen Indians swapping cars – the ultimate status symbol – for a more humble mode of transportCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith cases of Covid-19 surging past the one million mark, Indians are shunning c…
Soaring popularity of cycling clashes with lack of investment in cycle paths across New ZealandHundreds of cyclists have gathered in Wellington to demand safer infrastructure and more investment from the Ardern government, after the death of a cyclist …
Bike riding courses run in Auckland are such a hit that ReBicycle is urgently looking for more volunteersLeila Rahimi was so scared when she first moved to New Zealand that she struggled to leave the house; and would spend days working up the courage t…