Why cycling In Tewkesbury?

Lots of young people already ride to school in Tewkesbury, and around town.

We need to use different kinds of transport for different kinds of journey. Walking is one of the best ways to get around Tewkesbury, for example. For longer journeys we use buses, trains and planes. Cars are sometimes needed, but using a car isn’t always the best. If everyone in Tewkesbury could get around the town using cars less, then our little town would be a cleaner, quieter, safer and more pleasant place to live!

OK, Tewkesbury does not have all the cycle paths that they have in Holland. But we’re going in that direction, with the new cycle path from town to Tewkesbury School. Tewkesbury is a small and compact town. Everything is no more than 15 minutes away by foot or bike. Talk to your parents. Are there ways you can use your bike more to get around, using quiet roads and cycle paths? There’s now a cycle route map for Tewkesbury, which you can pick up from the library. Also at the library you can pick up a 32-page colour guide for anybody who wants to get into cycling. It has lots of tips for all ages, and it’s free.

Look at any bike. It’s hardly anything! A few tubes and skinny wheels put together in a clever way: two simple triangles and circles: but sit on it and pedal it, and you become part of a perfect machine. Part of it? Well, yes - you are the engine, and those tubes and wheels are built around your body, to make you five times more powerful.

What other way of getting around is so easy, cheap, so ready for you, so friendly to the planet, so healthy, and so much fun?

Bikes are for everybody, and on a bike you become one of the most beautiful movers in the known universe.