People

Committee

Chair: Jim Davis

Jim Davis is Founder and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. He once raced his trusty mountain bike in the inaugural Grundig Mountain Bike World Challenge (1989) and has worked as Information Officer for CTC (2002-2004). He is a cycle campaigner both locally and nationally, an occasional writer, speaker and extremely occasional stand up comedian. He lives in Worthing, West Sussex.

The Chair can be contacted by using the email address chair@cycling-embassy.org.uk.

Secretary: Sally Hinchcliffe

Sally Hinchcliffe is a novelist and editor when she’s not attempting to save the world, one bike ride at a time. Prior to joining the Cycling Embassy, at its inaugural meeting, she had never ventured into the shark-infested waters of cycle campaigning, but, in for a penny, in for a pound, she’s since helped start up the Dumfries cycling campaign group Cycling Dumfries and has since got involved in organising Pedal on Parliament. She also blogs about bikes and unrelated matters at Town Mouse

Sally can be contacted by using the email address secretary@cycling-embassy.org.uk.

Press Officer: Mark Treasure

Mark acts as the Press Officer for the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. He rides a Brompton, an Omafiets, a mountain bike, a racing bike with carbon bits... anything you can pedal, really. His scribblings on cycling and transport can be found at As Easy As Riding A Bike. He spends most of his spare time trying to persuade his partner to go on holiday to the Netherlands.

Mark can be contacted by using the email address press@cycling-embassy.org.uk.

Treasurer: Geoff Rone

Geoff became a convert to “utility cycling” after an accident put paid to a promising career as an avid club cyclist – providing there was beer at the end of the ride he was as avid as anyone! He has “partially retired” from banking and moved to cycling heaven – SW Wales “There’s a bike path. It’s lovely if you like rain, wind and hills”

Others

Webmaster: Anthony Cartmell

Anthony has toured by bike in the Scottish Highlands, French Alps and Colorado Rocky Mountains, and has been a CTC member and representative for more than 25 years. In 1994 he became an Audax Super Randonneur, but family life with six-year-old twins now means he rides bicycles mainly for daily local transport. The family now has an extensive stable of bicycles, tricycles and trailers!

The webmaster can be contacted by using the email address webmaster@cycling-embassy.org.uk.

Volunteer Coordinator: Samantha Smith

When Sam was very little, she would ride in a child-seat on the back of her mother's shopper bicycle. She maintains the reason she didn't tell her mum one of her wellies had fallen off mid-journey one day was because she liked being on the bike so much she wanted another trip out to fetch the lost boot. She credits a day pootling up and down Chicago's Lakeshore Drive a couple of years ago for helping her rediscover her love of getting about by bike, and now makes plenty of journeys around London in search of bakeries and a good weekend brunch.

Board member: Chris Page

Chris Page is an avid fan of the music of Rolf Harris and a member of the board of the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. He writes the cycling blog Chester Cycling, based on his experiences of cycling in Chester, his new city. Chris is also involved with the Wheelers’ Brunch, an informal monthly gathering for people who want to get from A-to-B in Manchester by bike and he rides a modern Danish Raleigh DL-1

Board member: Joe Dunckley

Joe has survived happily car free in the rural Westcountry, has been a bicycling commuter in Bristol, London, and Cincinnati, Ohio, and has seen the UK and Netherlands from a Super Galaxy. Never previously a campaigner, he was motivated to explore transport policy in 2010 when the new coalition government announced an end to “the war on the motorist”, and he writes a blog inspired by that announcement. Joe is also co-convenor of the Movement for Liveable London’s Street Talks and is refurbishing a vintage British Raleigh DL-1.

Board member: David Arditti