All though out my years I have enjoyed playing most sports, from football with mates & the worlds oldest football club Sheffield FC, to a really weird game of badminton with my mum in front of World Cup winner Bobby Charlton. There is one sport I've always wanted to do and that's cycling, so a few months ago I met up with Rob Brown from Scarborough & Ryedale Community Cycle at an event at The Streets. We had a chat about the many types of adapted cycles they had on offer, I saw this yellow hand crank bike and I hopped onto it, it was perfect. I've always wanted to do cycling, if you don't know me I have two conditions that like to stiffen up my joints and have I been told by a few Physios that cycling would be the best thing for my joints.
So after that I met up with Rob again and we spent a morning riding up and down the North Bay area of Scarborough, this was something I enjoyed and really felt some freedom. I've liked cycling at a young ages, I even got an adapted cycle that I loved riding around Eastfield with my brother & friends, but one day it got stolen from the garage we use to have near where the old Strongwood pub. It was returned to me but by then the whole fun of cycling had gone and I never sat on a bike again.
So after what Great Britain have done in the olympics, getting up early to get to York to watch seconds of a stage at the Grand Depart and the Tour de Yorkshire it was time to get back in the saddle and have ago again. I do really wished I never left it so long as my inner child inside of me loved been free again, the wind was not in my hair as that's near enough all gone but it has been awesome riding on a bike again.
So a few weeks had passed & Rob from SRCC got in touch with me asking if I'd like to come down and ride about in front of a BBC cameras. I went down and was interviewed with BBC's Carla Fowler and talked about my new love of cycling. In 2016 I want to do two events. The first event is to do the 3 mile cycle in Sheffield for Sports Relief & I've always wanted to ride the Cinder Path from Whitby to Scarborough & would love to raise money for a local charity. If you would like to join me or help in this quest please get intouch by email ant@radioscarborough.co.uk or tweet @TwelfthManRadio
