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Kevin Hickman
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Trustee of Wheels for Wellbeing. Director of Windrush Bike Project.
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Tomorrow we launch the 5th Edition of the Guide to Inclusive Cycling!

Hear from Dame Sarah Storey, Phil Jones (PJA), and our own Kate Ball on why inclusive cycling matters and how great infrastructure makes a difference.

Thu 25 Sept
12:30–1:30pm
Register free: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Official launch of the 5th Edition of the Guide to Inclusive Cycling . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Official launch of the 5th Edition of the Guide to Inclusive Cycling . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
us02web.zoom.us
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Tell us about other books you've encountered that include Disabled cyclists?
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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isabelleclementmbe.bsky.social
The team at @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk has been busy re-writing, re-shaping the highly respected #GuideToInclusiveCycling over the last few months. The 5th edition is being launched online on 25/09. Great speakers! Details below
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · Sep 8
We’re delighted to announce the official launch of the 5th Edition of the Wheels for Wellbeing Guide to Inclusive Cycling!

Date: Thursday 25th September
Time: 12:30–1:30pm
Location: Zoom
September 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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cohsat.bsky.social
People wanting to walk or cycle between Thame and the station at Haddenham are currently forced to choose a dangerous road or a muddy path.
Please support this petition to give them a safe and viable option.
www.change.org/p/support-fo...
Sign the Petition
Support for a Greenway Between Haddenham and Thame
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September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
The excellent The Rest Is Entertainment podcast revealed this week that a musician or band would need to get 560,000 streams on Spotify to earn minimum wage (not including costs). They point out that is Alison Moyet’s level of streaming popularity

How on earth do new bands make it now?!
September 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
Happy Birthday to Kate, one of our Campaigns and Policy Leads.

And we can't think of a better way of celebrating all the incredible work she does, than by sharing her cycle story!

➡️ wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-cycle-st...

@tandemkate.bsky.social #AccessibleCycling #CycleStories
Kate Ball sat on a tandem cycle. She is a white woman with brown hair and is wearing a white cycling helmet, a blue jacket, dark blue skirt with white flowers and blue trainers. The bike has an orange bag at the front. In the background is a tree with white flowers, a road, and a car opposite parked in a driveway.
September 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
kevin-hickman.bsky.social
Did the “THIS IS WHAT YOU GET” exhibition in the Ashmolean this morning. Reminded me of this podcast from the much lamented Bristol based Boneshaker: overcast.fm/+AAEhOsqvHqc
03 The Wheels of Time - Pt1 (The Slow Show) — Boneshakercast
Time is a slippery thing: it can speed up and it can slow down, it can propel us through life or keep us standing still, In the first part of our ride on the wheels of time we hear from Stanley Donwoo...
overcast.fm
September 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
kevin-hickman.bsky.social
Got the cycling mode working on the new leg so brought the swinging crank out of retirement…
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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oxfordclarion.bsky.social
The toilets to be closed cost between £2,600 (Charlbury) and £45,530 (Woodstock) to run each year. Several of the toilets are sited near car parks, where WODC offers free parking at an annual subsidy of around £0.5m.
September 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
Our Guide to Inclusive Cycling is cited in New Zealand’s "Accessible cycling infrastructure design guidance note" referencing us an international benchmark!

We’re thrilled our work is influencing policy & standards elsewhere, and look out for launch of the 5th edition of the Guide this September.
Image of the front cover of the Accessible cycling infrastructure design guidance note.There is a picture of a black woman smiling wearing a blue top and a white helmet on a blue tricycle. She is on a road with white dashed lines down the middle and greenery to either side. Underneath there is text saying 'Accessible cycling infrastructure. Design guide note NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. 13 March 2024. Draft. At the bottom are the logos for Waka Kotahi and the New Zealand government
August 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Finally, a progressive PSPO. Bedford has ditched its blanket ban on cycling in pedestrianised areas & now only prohibits dangerous/aggressive riding.

This simple change means Disabled cyclists are no longer excluded from the town centre. Let's hope other councils take note.

road.cc/content/news...
Controversial town centre bike ban overturned after thousands of cyclists “aggressively” fined – as new order aims to crack down on “dangerous” cycling, not responsible riders
The ban was branded “discriminatory” by local campaigners, who claimed it targeted “slow and co-operative cyclists”, ignored those “too fast to stop”, and made “nobody safer at all”
road.cc
August 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
Photos like these are really important for helping to raise awareness of our services and showing funders why we are worth supporting.

Let's make inclusive cycling visible!

#InclusiveCycling #AccessibleCycling #CyclingSessions
Poster with a grey background and the text "Models wanted. We need some new photos to show people what Wheels for Wellbeing is all about! Are you happy to be photographed at a session next week? Let us know." There are three photos of people on cycles and a big graphic of a camera.
August 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz346bs
Magazine letter: It seems that shops stock seasonal products earlier and earlier each year. Today I saw a birthday card, but my birthday isn't until October. Utterly ridiculous. Rich B, Kidlington
August 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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benwheels.bsky.social
Easy to miss, but important. At @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk we've been working towards this moment for years - the DfT has publicly announced that it is looking at sorting out mobility aid laws. 🎉 Our #MyCycleMyMobilityAid campaign looks like it is paying off.
Screenshot of a tweet from Simon Lightwood MP. Jul 21. "Everyone deserves safe, accessible transport. That’s why we’re extending e-scooter trials to 2028 and expanding them to new towns to learn how best to regulate them. We’re also looking at our mobility aid laws so disabled people can use the devices they need for independence." Accompanied with a photo, the alt text for which was "Hire escooters parked in a line in a designated parking area", image attribution Department for Transport.
July 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
kevin-hickman.bsky.social
Even for an old hand there’s a first time for everything - quaxing my old-meets-new prosthesis home from the limb centre.
Background: Lower limb prothesis attached to Brompton bag and saddle. Foreground: A well earned beer…
July 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
Thrilled to be nominated for Diversity Champion in the #BikeBizAwards2025. You can't vote for us, as this category is 'decided by the BikeBiz team', but you can see our illustrious competition and vote on many other categories at: bikebizawards.com/shortlist/
Wishing everyone the very best of luck!
Stylised red and blue aurora borealis background with white text overlaid it which says "Bikebiz Awards 2025 Proud Finalist, Diversity Champion 2025"
July 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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raremags.bsky.social
We’ll be talking about this one a lot but for now we’ll lay it out - it’s a magazine about cargo bikes and cycling infrastructure and advocacy and logistics and we LOVE it. Copies in the shop or the site now. raremags.co.uk @cargobikefest.bsky.social
A photograph of a largely red magazine cover with the title “Carrier” and a photograph of a dock with a distant person riding a cargo bike.
July 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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benwheels.bsky.social
At #ActiveCityYork, great to hear Sarah Storey, GMcr active travel commissioner talk about the need to update the law about what mobility aids are allowed where. #MyCycleMyMobilityAid
July 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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benwheels.bsky.social
I was at Parliament in a roundtable about Govt's #IntegratedTransportStrategy organised by Accessible Transport Policy Commission, giving a chance to talk to senior #DfT officials about what's needed for integrated transport for #Disabled people, including #ActiveTravel to/from nearest stop. 2/2
Selfie taken in a high ceilinged room. Closest to camera on the right, masc presenting person wearing straw hat and blue casual shirt with three white stripes, and around the neck a lanyard saying "visitor". Behind and to the left, Baroness Grey-Thompson, with short light-coloured hair, typing into a laptop. To the left, a femme presenting person with hair tied up, perhaps in her 30s, hands held out in front gesticulating while she talks. To the left, another femme presenting person wearing a dress with a Greek key pattern in black and white, she has longer hair. To the left, two further people, not easy to discern in shiloette as light streams in from the window behind them. Behind the speaker is the top of a banner saying "The Accessible Transport Policy Commission". Selfie taken outside palace of Westminster with much neo-baroque stonework in evidence. I'm masc presenting, clean shaven, wearing a straw hat and a blue polo shirt with white stripes just visible on the sleeve.
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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As disabled people, and however frustrating it might be, we need to respect the access needs of other disabled people, even if they do not align with our own needs.

Banning bus stop bypasses does not show such respect.

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July 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The Distance.
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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benwheels.bsky.social
Today work for @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk took both @tandemkate.bsky.social and I to London, so it was good to be able to meet up in person for a change (all-too-briefly). Kate was talking to City of London about bus stop bypasses, while... 1/2
Angled picture of two people, both smiling. Flat ground runs top left to bottom right in the picture. On the left, masc presenting, clean shaved person wearing straw hat and dark blue casual shirt. To the right, femme presenting person, with shoulder length brown hair, wearing sunglasses and a long blue dress with a red pattern. Partly visible between the two, a wheelchair, clearly not being sat on by either. To the right at a steep angle, red bricks of a modern building and a red London bus.
June 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Halfway through our celebration of 30 years of Camcycle and no.15 is the Cargo Carnival 🎉

We've hosted four cargo carnivals – to celebrate and promote all that can be carried by cycle – as part of our Festival of Cycling. As it's Fathers' Day, here are some great cycling dads!
A group of male participants in our 2022 Cargo Carnival on Lammas Land in Cambridge. Behind Phil on a recumbent trike, several dads ride box bikes with children in the front.
June 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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benwheels.bsky.social
@isabelleclementmbe.bsky.social gave me advice about attending @velo-city-conference.com. She didn't tell me about the @cyclehoop.bsky.social #caverave! The best way to see the dawn is while dancing!
June 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Multi-talented, multi-skilled Charlie makes almost as much of a powerful impact at Wheels for Wellbeing as his immediately recognisable (and beloved!) neon yellow bike. But, beyond his working life in the saddle, what makes him tick? Find out at:
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Our Cycle Stories: Charlie Fernandes
Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM