RIDE Support Resources – Opportunity – Bike Ready

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Inspiration

A froggy tale

Physical & Social Opportunity

Opportunity – bike ready

The person needs to have the opportunity to cycle independently. To do so they would need:

• Access to a bike

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Bike

readySupport worker/social support within their network to undertake short journeys by bike.

These journeys need to have benefit/enablement to the individual’s life.

• Support within their network to undertake their journeys

In helping people to make short journeys by bike an essential element of that journey is physical and social support.

What could this support look like?

• Access to a bike.

• To make sure a bike they own is roadworthy.

• Options for borrowing or hiring.

• Exploring e-bikes if there are physical or geographical barriers.

• Access to adapted cycles.

• Access to cargo bike if for business purposes.

• Advice and consistent support from other people to make those journeys.

• A way to mark and ‘celebrate’ those short journeys and accomplishments.

There is a story about a frog that comes from the First Nation plains community in North America. It is the story of how a tiny mouse sets out on a journey of transformation from being a mouse to an eagle. All along the way on her journey she is given guidance and tools to make her journey by various animals. One of the key characters in the story is a wise frog who gives the mouse a new name called ‘jumping mouse’ and the frog is there to guide jumping mouse on her journey and give her encouragement, advice and a sense of vision during her quest.