Your subscription will help us to do more.Simon has been news editor at road.cc since 2009, reporting on 10 editions and counting of pro cycling’s biggest races such as the Tour de France, stories on issues including infrastructure and campaigning, and interviewing some of the biggest names in cycling. The non-competitive, mass participation cycling event calendar is jam-packed with rides every weekend of the season, and there's likely to be a handful of rides on your doorstep. pavements alongside roads, where cycling is prohibited). Overall, between 2009/10 and 2013/14, the estimated number of visits involving road cycling rose by 8.3 million while the estimated volume of visits that included off-road cycling/ mountain biking increased by 1.4 million over the same period.Furthermore, between 2011 and 2014, an estimated 6.4 million domestic tourism trips taken away from homeThroughout the 2009 to 2014 period, MENE has consistently recorded that men are more likely than women to take visits to the natural environment involving any type of cycling.

The results of a new off-road cycling survey, conducted by Cycling UK and off-road network OpenMTB, highlight the huge importance of off-road cycling for people's mental, as well as physical, health - but also frustration at England and Wales's archaic rights of way and access laws. (When asked in 2016 whether they’d cycled as a means of transport in the last seven days, people who were 20-29 or 30-38 were more likely than the others to say they had (8%-9%):When asked whether they’d cycled at all (at any frequency) in the last four weeks, people in the 35-44 age group were more likely to say yes than any other (14%). As a subscriber you can read road.cc ad-free, from as little as £1.99. Brake survey, 2015. Yet, when asked how they got to the start of their rides on the rights of way network, 67% said they did so by cycling from their front door.It's a different matter though for trail centres, with 42% saying that most of their trail-centre rides involved a car journey of more than an hour.Trail centres were the most popular "away" venues, particularly in Scotland and Wales, though National Parks were also popular in England.

The survey now offers three years’ worth of data (2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18).CW are a particularly useful source of data on cycling and walking frequencies in every local authority area in England.The NSW involves around 12,000 people each year. It would be interesting to go back further in time. 28% of respondents have household earnings in the £50-100K bracket, with another 28% in the £30-50K range, though only 7% had household earnings above £100K. What kinds of roads are people most likely to cycle on?15. Respondents were more luke-warm about farmland (44% said "It's OK", while 8% said they don't enjoy it) and riversides or canals (38% said "It's OK", with 7% not enjoying them).Of the major owners of access land, the most commonly used were Forestry Commission sites, with 29% using these at least weekly and another 32% using them at least monthly. Double-track and family routes (e.g. Sustrans routes, 47%) and undesignated trails (40%).But 34% said they cycled on footpaths at least once a week, with only 21% saying they never rode on footpaths. It is much bigger than the NTS, with around 180,000 adults (aged 16+) taking part in 2017-18. 'Higher rights' trails were the trail-type most likely to be used "at least weekly" (56% of respondents), followed by designated trails (e.g. The variation in participant profiles and visit characteristics mean that the differing needs and behaviours of those participating in each of these cycling forms need to be taken into account, both when visiting from home and while on holiday.Copyright © 2015 Outdoor Recreation Network. Meanwhile, the survey itself told us that most respondents own 2 or 3 bikes (28% and 26% respectively), with just 11% having only 1 bike. Most respondents said their "away trips" were typically for just one day (50%), though 16% would typically stay for a night away, 20% staying away for two nights and 13% staying away for longer than this.The most important factor in deciding on an "away" venue was the quality of trails (92% said this was important or very important), followed by technical difficulty (65%), car parking (62%) and waymarking (55%). The survey attracted a huge response, with 11,482 people taking part in total - see The respondents were predominantly white British (92% of respondents) and male (87%). More serious sabotage had been experienced by 4%, while 2% had faced physical aggression.The trail-type most strongly preferred by respondents was single-track (79%), followed by technical trails (63%). Registered as a charity in England and Wales charity no: 1147607 and in Scotland charity no: SC042541. are (Note: Figures for individual authorities fluctuate quite a bit from year to year, so the date above aren't a perfect reflection of cycle use in any given area. Share of transport 2016 Source for many of graphs: 2016 National Travel Survey (released 27 July 2017) An updated stat to show cycling accounts for just 2% of journeys in England. Road cycling is part of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

bridleways or byways, where there are rights of way for cycling), and footpaths (where cycling may be a trespass against the landowner, but is usually not a criminal offence - n.b. According to data on ‘cycling modal share’, Note: countries do not necessarily collect the same kind of data or report on them in the same way.