There is no uniform for bike riders. You don’t need to wear any special gear to go cycling, and many people don’t. The health benefits of cycling far outweigh the risks. So, if worrying about clothing is holding you back, just get cycling!
We’d like to encourage you, however, to spend some time thinking about your comfort and safety on the bike.
Continue reading “I don’t know what to wear”
As part of work to establish safe cycle routes to schools Dave Mowatt is helping the Hayling Island schools and the Hampshire Travel Team explore options to set up a ‘Park and Stride’ scheme. This would allow parents to park in some of the Island’s car parks with easy walking to school.
If established, the scheme would reduce congestion at school times and increase safety for children walking or cycling to school.
We hope to see a trial scheme started early in the new school year.
Sorry, we managed to confuse our web site. If you came here to download the Billy Trail Treasure Hunt, or to get model answers, please use this link to go to the page you wanted. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
We launched the treasure hunt over the week-end of 6/7 July to support the other Hayling Billy 50 commemoration events taking place on the same day.
We handed out treasure hunts at the south end of the Billy Trail and in East street in Havant.
Continue reading “Billy Trail treasure hunt update”
We initially heard from Andy Leneghan that the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH) had allocated £60K to improve access to leisure trails.
We’ve done some digging and Havant has confirmed that:
“£60,000 capital funding has been allocated to Havant Borough Council (HBC) by PUSH to improve access and connectivity to green infrastructure on Hayling Island through enhancements to the Billy Trail and the Seafront footpath/cycleway. HBC and Hampshire County Council will contribute S106 funding to match the PUSH grant which is to be spent on resurfacing work and provision of signage for both trails, including restoration of the old Billy Line signal arm. The work will be carried out during autumn/winter 2013/14 so it will be completed for Spring 2014.”
We’ll publish more details as we learn them.
We’ve created a treasure hunt as part of the Hayling Billy 50 commemoration. You can use it at any time and we’ve designed it so you can cycle it, walk it, ride it or even run it!
You can download the treasure hunt and find out more about it from this download page.
If you know someone else that might be interested, please let them know about it.
At the invitation of Headteacher Wendy Bolton, Cycle Hayling helped stage a cycling event on 11th June that involved all the pupils with bikes.
Continue reading “Bike week at Mengham Junior School”
We work alongside other organisations campaigning for safe routes to schools. In particular, we’ve been working with:
And, of course, the schools involved:
We wanted to record our official thanks for all the time and effort they are putting in to improve cycle routes to the schools on Hayling Island.
Hi, my name’s Andy Henderson and I’ve just taken over from Sue Underwood as chair of Cycle Hayling.
Today, I’m a keen cyclist but until a few year’s ago I hadn’t cycled since I was a teenager. I thought you might be interested in my journey into cycling.
Continue reading “My journey into cycling”
If you haven’t already done so, please consider joining with cyclists all over the country to petition the Department for Transport to implement the findings of the ‘Get Britain Cycling’ Inquiry.
You can see a direct appeal from Sir Chris Boardman, Sir Dave Brailsford and Laura Trott here.
We’re over half way to the 100,000 signatures needed to force a debate in parliament. It’s likely that would result in new pledges – and money – from the government to support every day cycling.
Please also consider asking family and friends to add their names to the petition. It takes just a minute or two.
The stones that made the South end of the Billy Trail difficult and potentially dangerous have been removed.
Cycle Hayling and several users of the Billy Trail raised concerns through a number of contacts, and they have been heard. There is a large pile of the stones in the car park next to HIADS. Hopefully they’ll be removed and not redeployed on the trail.
You should be aware, however, there are still some stones left on the trail. Some care is needed to avoid them.