Community & Events
York Residents Festival: Discover York by Cycle
Every January, York Residents’ Festival celebrates the people who call York home. Organised by Make It York, the festival thanks local York residents for the warm welcome they give to the millions of visitors who explore the city each year. The festival is a fantastic opportunity to discover York from a different perspective, with local…
Read MoreWinter Wonderwheels: Get Cycling CIC Brings Inclusive Cycles
Winter Wonderwheels, part of the Superhero Series, is one of the UK’s most inspiring inclusive sports events. It is held at Dorney Lake in Windsor. The event brings together disabled people and those with additional support needs. Everyone takes part in a fun, supportive, and accessible challenge. Whether participants choose to walk, wheel, run, or…
Read MoreGet Cycling nominated for York Community Pride Award
280 words1 min readPublished July 2023 We are delighted to be nominated for ‘Best Community Project’ in the York Community Pride Awards! The category, which has been sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is for projects carried out by informal non-recognised voluntary groups that exemplify what can be achieved when people work together. We must…
Read MoreAtwal-Brice Family Visit Get Cycling
In celebration of Disability Pride Month, we are excited to announce we are working with the Atwal-Brice family and their autistic sons to find them the perfect cycles! The Atwal-Brice family are renowned for their work in both the disability and LGBTQIA+ community visited the Get Cycling showroom in York to trial some inclusive cycles…
Read MoreBike Week: 100 years of celebrating cycling
This year is the 100th year of #BikeWeek by Cycling UK. At Get Cycling we like to celebrate cycling every day, so we thought we’d highlight something a bit closer to our hearts to mark this special milestone: the history of disability cycling. Did you know? The first handcycle was invented in Germany in 1655, by Stephan…
Read MoreLocal Bike Shop Day 2023
We are always thrilled to celebrate Local Bike Shop Day (or #LBSD) every year, and this year BikeBiz included us in a great write-up Local Bike Shop Day is an industry-wide initiative managed by the Association of Cycle Traders. “Local Bike Shop Day is the one day a year when independent bike shops across the UK…
Read MoreBritish Cycling launch Limitless
This February, British Cycling launched their amazing Limitless programme – a brand-new inclusive club project providing cycling opportunities for disabled people, regardless of age, impairment and ability. British Cycling are creating a network of inclusive clubs across the country, where disabled people can take part in cycling opportunities. Whether you wish to try cycling for…
Read MoreDiffability: the podcast helping break down barriers for families with disabled children
Season 2 of the incredible Diffability podcast, hosted by Dadsnet, has launched and we are thrilled to be a part of it! The podcast is led by dads Paul & Michael Atwal-Brice and follows their challenging journey of raising their identical twin teenage sons Levi and Lucas, who both have autism and epilepsy, as well…
Read MoreMeet the inclusive cycles added to our hire fleet!
Get Cycling extends its hire fleet to become the only inclusive cycle hire service in Yorkshire! We have had a well-established and popular cycle hire service in York for a few years; giving the people of York and visitors to our fair city a set of wheels to explore the local area in a different…
Read MoreWhat happens when you mix women and inclusive cycling
Did you know that most of the Board of Directors for Get Cycling are women? And that our CEO is a woman? To celebrate York International Women’s Week we’re going to highlight a few of the feminine forces of nature that help keep us going!
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