Family cycling culture - could Britain be like Germany?

[mjr]

[...] I've certainly never heard of cars taking part in the Oxfordshire event. The Bishop of Dorchester, who covers the county of Oxfordshire (but not the city of Oxford), is an active cyclist and rides it every year.

It's great that Oxfordshire is still cycling, unlike the places that started the event.

But I suspect we can't really hold some sort of coup and replace the Bishops of Norwich, Lynn and Thetford with ones that cycle more!

[awavey]

For my own part, I had not heard anything about it and did not know it existed until I looked in this thread. I suspect you may be the only forum regular who does know of it, in which case no-one has mentioned it because like me they did not know of it.

The text of the home page of that website does not make it at all clear that it is an event featuring family cycling, or that it is open to all.

well maybe I dont consider myself to that much of a regular but tbf I did also know of it,its just I normally forget its happening till Im passing a church in September and thinking why are there so many people cycling around this church, oh its that church ride thingy time of the year again and Ive been doing that for nearly 25 years, one of these days I might join them.

[Ron]

I think you’d also have to be very interested in saving historic churches as well as an interest in cycling to get involved.

.................and have to live in, or be visiting England at the right time as this is not a UK wide event.

[mjr]

I think you’d also have to be very interested in saving historic churches as well as an interest in cycling to get involved.

.................and have to live in, or be visiting England at the right time as this is not a UK wide event.

Not even all of England, I think.

So the day is here and Norfolk still has no details which churches are open. Is driving killing off the event?