Cycle Winchester Mass Ride for Winchester Green Week

Coinciding with this year’s Winchester Green Week, the Mass Ride welcomes cyclists of all ages and abilities to join hundreds of others in support of Cycle Winchester’s key campaign objective: to make Winchester better by bike.

This year’s Mass Ride is in association with Kidical Mass, which focuses on the promotion of child and cycle-friendly cities and towns across the world - and sustainable mobility. 

Cycle Winchester’s Mass Ride is not just for children. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join the ride which, the organisers hope, will be the biggest yet.

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Cyclists can join the Mass Ride at a number of start points across the city, at 10am: Kings Worthy, Harestock, Badger Farm and Highcliffe. 

The Colden Common and Twyford Bike Bus have organised a feeder ride too. The ride will take place at a slow-medium pace on open roads but each group will have experienced cyclists marshalling the group for safety.

At 10.40am, rides will combine at King Alfred’s Statue in the Broadway for a processional lap around the city centre. 

There will be a post-ride get-together and refreshments at Abbey Gardens at 11am and the event will finish around 12noon. 

Also in Abbey Gardens there will be a 'bike doctor' provided by Bespoke Biking; retailers The Cycle Company and Hurrecane Bikes; WinACC – and a short talk from Rory McCarron, of Leigh Day Solicitors, sponsors of the All party parliamentary group for cycling and walking road justice review report.

More information about the Mass Ride, and Cycle Winchester, including details about meeting points and pickup locations along the way, can be found at cyclewinchester.org.uk.