May the Fourth be with you on Kidical Mass Coventry 🚴 🚴‍♀️ 🚴‍♂️

On the first ever Kidical Mass in Coventry, the force was with us . . . Iona decided to dress as Baby Yoda for Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) 😀
From big cities to rural areas, Kidical Mass action is all about showing that children and young people should be able to move around safely and independently on foot and by bike. This was the first time a Kidical Mass Event has been put on in Coventry and it’s a big thanks to Ed, John & Kwok for making it happen as well as volunteers from Coventry CTC part of Cycling UK. We joined them as a family, including Ruth on the back of her Dad’s tandem!
Over 45 of us started our ride at Coventry Station with whistles tooting and music playing and headed into the city centre where we sailed past Coventry - Belgrade Theatre, Whittle Arches, Coventry Transport museum before ending up at Coventry Cathedral riding round and round Coventry University Square. We had great fun and cars and buses waiting for us enroute were all very friendly and supportive.
Of course, any ride needs a cafe stop, so we headed to the newly opened Baxter Baristas at Herbert Art Gallery for refuelling. Then, as everyone else headed home, Ewan and I decided to extend our ride with a jaunt out to Pumpkins Deli in Brinklow. We made good use of the Binley Cycle way to whisk us out of the city before heading on rather muddy bridlepaths from Binley to Brinklow.
Coffee and cake consumed while enjoying the sunshine in the park at the back of Pumpkins Deli, it was time to head back using quite country lanes, farm tracks and cycle routes by the River Sowe and Coventry Canal.
A fabulous day of cycling, looking forward to the next Coventry Kidical Mass in September, join us if you can and lets make the streets safer and more accessible for everyone!
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Useful Links
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About Kidical Mass
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Kidical Mass Coventry
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Pumpkins Deli
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About Ian, Iona and Family
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Each week on this channel Ian (Dad) and Iona share our little adventure experiences, often joined by Ewan (Iona’s older brother) and Ruth (Mum) too.
Our weekends often start with parkrun. Iona is on a non-repeat parkrun tourism streak having now visited over 100 different places since she started parkrunning. But we don’t just do parkun and dash home, we love exploring the area and often use bikes and trains for our travels to keep our carbon footprint low and because it adds to the adventure too. When school holidays arrive, longer adventures are possible with Ewan and Iona both being keen cycle tourists and mountain climbers!
So if you like heading outdoors and your idea of a perfect weekend includes parkrun, climbing a mountain or exploring new places on two wheels then we would love to have you join us on our adventures.
We’d love it if you subscribed so you can follow our journey and hopefully be inspired to get out the door and have your own little adventures. Do like and leave comments on our videos too on questions you might have or ideas for places to explore or adventures to go on.
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[@russellb472]

What route did you take to Brinklow? Looks predominantly off road....and safer than in front of Coombe Abbey!

[@ALittleAdventureTime]

We used a bridleway from Binley to Brinklow, navigable but quite muddy, here’s our route on komoot www.komoot.com/tour/1554213256?ref=itd

[@russellb472]

Thanks, that's super helpful. I have never tried that bridleway but it looks very reasonable. Will give it a go next time!