We’re having wild adventures with kids and bikes.
Meet the family.
(In ascending order of size…)
Robert
The smallest member of the family, who in the absence of any other known contenders, lays claim to the accolade of “Youngest foetus to have travelled from Land’s End to John o’Groats on a bicycle”.
Bob spent the ‘Covid years’ travelling around in his trailer, eating, sleeping and pooping, and has now graduated to ‘Chief Tandem Stoker’.
Ruth and Rhoda
Family ByCycle’s answer to Tess and Claudia hold records for cycling the length of Great Britain on their trailerbikes and went viral online.
They've appeared on television in the UK and around the world, including filming in Los Angeles, and are recipients of Gold BBC ‘Blue Peter’ badges after their contribution to one of Britain’s best-loved kids TV shows.
Now at senior school, the girls are cooking up fresh adventures over more ambitious distances, in their own right.
Thomas Ivor
17-year-old Thomas Ivor has been blazing a trail on two wheels for some years, now, and is just completing an audacious ‘Land’s End - John o’Groats’ ride, solo and self-supported, covering over 1000 miles and visited 17 islands en route, including Ireland, Arran, Mull, Skye, the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and the Northernmost tip of the United Kingdom, in the Shetland Isles.
Previously an accomplished racer on his bike and in the water, his main love remains ultra-endurance riding. Prior to his recent epic, he’s ridden big distances all over the country, and at home - during the Coronavirus lockdown he completed a 250 mile day on Zwift, and subsequently a 1000 mile week on the indoor trainer.
Studying for a career in engineering and a capable builder of bikes, also known for his public speaking prowess since the age of seven, Thomas Ivor has appeared in local and national media, and raised substantial sums for charities including the National Autistic Society and NHS Charities together.
Katie, a.k.a @Mummy ByCycle
Katie works in the infrastructure business and was a competitive rower before the children came along. Sleep deprived after Rhoda’s birth, she somehow agreed to go on a self-supported cycle tour of the Outer Hebrides, and it snowballed from there.
A governor of two schools for several years, Katie takes a particular interest in encouraging safe active travel for families, and is our ‘designated sensible person’ at crucial moments in Family ByCycle adventures, with specific responsibility for remembering stuff, taking notes, and keeping important things safe, notably the baby she was carrying when she rode the End-to-End in 2018, the subject of a book she looks forward to finding time to writing!
Tom
‘Daddy ByCycle’ loves to travel, and is a hoarder of bikes, maps, and madcap schemes in support of his wanderlust. He’s worked in multi-modal transport policy and railway operations, and cycled for utility and leisure, for many years; a lot of this is his fault.
Tom’s particular love of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland results from a well-spent youth with railway privilege travel and a rucksack; these days if he’s not travelling by train or bike, he’s probably talking or writing about it - or tinkering with one (a train or a bike, that is).
A one-time sports photographer, Tom is our ‘AV guy’ and ‘kit junkie’ and is responsible for much of Family ByCycle’s media output. As such, he’s also active as a cycling activist.