Bike Week

Demonstrating the social, health and environmental benefits of cycling, the week aims to get people to give cycling a go all over the UK, whether this be for fun, as a means of getting around to work or school, the local shops or just to visit friends.

Cycling is incredible; it will help improve so many aspects of your life.

• Cycling to work can mean you have a 45% lower risk of developing cancer, and a 46% lower risk of cardiovascular disease.
• If you cycle regularly in adulthood, you will enjoy a level of fitness equivalent to someone 10 years younger.
• If all cycle journeys increased from the current level of 2% to 25% by 2050, the collective benefit would be £248bn.

This year Bike Week is all about you and your local community, we want to encourage as many people as possible to get out there and enjoy their community by bike. We want you to dream big and imagine how your community could be improved if everyone in it used their bikes more, together we can make a better world by bike.

Check out our Cycling webpage for information and tips on Cycling routes across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

• Organise a ride – if you would like to put on an event then there is all you need to know on our Register an event page and lots of information and materials to help make your event a success
• Encourage your Workplace to take part in Bike Week – all you need to know is on our Workplaces page

• Try something new – check out our Inspiration page, full of ideas and routes to explore this bike week
• Celebrate cycling – With the Queen's Platinum Jubilee just before Bike Week, why not keep the celebrations going, take your street party to some new streets by bike and don't forget to share your photos with us using the Bike Week hashtag: #BikeWeekUK
• Donate - This year we'll be raising money to help transform cycling in your local area. Together, we have already achieved so much across the UK – a safer Highway Code, increases in active travel funding, holding councils to account for removing cycling infrastructure, alongside more projects to enable everyone to be able to access cycling. As always there is still more to be done and we want to ensure wherever you live, it's better by bike.