Summer: I live in Ilkeston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I am also in Ilkeston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: I\u2019m seven years old and I\u2019m in year two at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I\u2019m eleven (nearly twelve) and I\u2019m in year seven at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: I have been cycling for three to four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I think I learnt to ride a bike when I was about six, but I started riding properly at the age of nine (almost ten). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: I cycle because \u2026..because I just really like it! I like riding with my family as well. I like cyclocross; you get muddy and at times it\u2019s so muddy that you have to carry your bike. It is so much fun (Summer has just finished her 3rd season of cyclocross). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I like the competitive side of cycling as I am a very competitive person. I also like riding with friends and riding with my Dad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: Here (Ilkeston Cycle club – Saturday afternoon cycling academy at Rutland sports centre) I also like cyclocross at Shipley park, but that has finished now until September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I like riding in the Peak District with my family; I like the hills and it\u2019s so pretty there. I also really enjoy riding at the velodrome in Derby. Summer is not quite tall enough to ride at the velodrome, but it won\u2019t be long before she can have a go. I am already doing some training sessions with adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: My best bit of kit is my bike; I like the colour, it is yellow with pink handle tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I also think my bikes are my best pieces of kit: my bikes are really good. I like the Ilkeston cycle club kit, and I have recently got a skin suit: so I think that is my favourite new item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: I think that if I keep practising I will get really good at cycling, then other girls will say \u2018that looks easy and it looks good fun\u2019 and then they will have a go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: I think some girls worry about how they look on a bike, I would say to them that it really doesn\u2019t matter and the most important thing is to have fun. I also think that some girls don\u2019t realise that there are lots of different types of cycling: mountain biking, cyclocross, velodrome, and road. We need to make sure that they know about the variety and then they might try something and that would open up different opportunities for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer: \u2018happy\u2019, \u2018tired sometimes\u2019 !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evie: \u2018happy\u2019 \u2018quick\u2019 \u2018free\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where are you based? Summer: I live in Ilkeston. Evie: I am also in Ilkeston. What do you do? Summer: I\u2019m seven years old and I\u2019m in year two at school. Evie: I\u2019m eleven (nearly twelve) and I\u2019m in year seven at school. How long have you cycled for? Summer: I have been cycling for… Continue reading Why we cycle: Summer & Evie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iwd","category-whywecycle","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46582,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46563\/revisions\/46582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}