Frequent cycling among people with an impairment is now at 184,000; Additionally, British Cycling’s programmes have delivered the following participation results in the last 12 months: Over 100,000 people have taken part in Sky Ride Big Bike events – traffic-free family cycling events that British Cycling staged in partnership with 14 cities. Other popular activities were rambling and low-level hiking (56%), hill-walking or mountaineering (46%) and dog-walking (31%).The survey also produced useful figures on how much off-road riders spend, e.g. It would appear that a shift in advertising and sales, to better target the adventure and exploration side of mountain biking, may be long overdue.The vast majority of respondents said that off-road cycling is "very important" (58%) or "fairly important" (32%) for their physical health, with an even higher number (66%) saying it is very important for their mental health and well-being. (• Males also cycled 3.6 times as many miles (92 as opposed to 25 for females). A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, his background has proved invaluable in reporting on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, and the bike industry.

TSNI, which started in 1999, collects information on how and why people travel via a seven-day travel diary and a computer interview. It does not include cycling activity elsewhere (e.g. Some of them may have fitted that mould 15-20 years ago, but off-road riding has clearly matured a lot in the meantime.Discussions with the bike trade on sales suggest that this demographic is borne out by sales figures.
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. How much cycling is going on comes into it too: i.e. district, city, borough, county, metropolitan etc.) While car access was high amongst participants of both forms of cycling, a higher proportion of visits involving off-road cycling/ mountain biking were taken by those with access to a car than was the case where road cycling was undertaken.As well as understanding the volume of visits and participant profiles, it is beneficial to understand the characteristics of visits on which cycling has been undertaken.While the majority of visits involving cycling recorded by MENE were taken to the countryside, this was significantly higher for visits where off-road cycling/ mountain biking took place, while visits to greenspaces in towns and cities were more likely to involve road cycling. The Welsh capital, which it should be acknowledged is currently rolling out protected cycle lanes across the city, was seen as unsafe for cycling by 71 per cent of respondents to the survey.It was followed by Leeds on 65 per cent and Birmingham on 63 per cent, and in each city in the top 10, shown below, which was rounded off by London at 54 per cent, more than half of participants felt unsafe.The sample of 1,732 regular cyclists was drawn from Cycleplan’s own client database with between 90 and 100 respondents per city analysed.Other cities that fell outside the top 10 were  Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Newcastle and Nottingham, however across the UK only 17 per cent of cyclists felt “safe” or “very safe” while riding in the city where they live.Other findings are contained in the infographic below, and the company, John Woosey, founder and managing director of Cycleplan, said: “These findings are extremely concerning, particularly given the emphasis currently being placed on cycling as a silver bullet for reducing pressure on public transport in the post-lockdown era.