How do you get more people on bikes velocipossy know how.
In london there's a cycling club that do things a little differently skills over speed velo may
refer to a bicycle a two-wheeled single track vehicle posse a group of friends or associates
Velociposse is a cycling club for women and non-binary people and we kind of exist outside
of a traditional cycling club kind of set up so it was founded with sort of skill sessions
at the core rather than sort of the weekly club run and the goal really is to kind of get people
who maybe don't see themselves represented in cycling culture or see a place for themselves
within traditional cycling clubs kind of a place for people to discover their love their love of
cycling or kind of develop that in a kind of just free environment and uh just a really supportive
supportive um and encouraging environment we're just all about kind of lifting each other up
coaching each other i mean i became a coach because of the club and i paid for it
through a grant that we had and now other people are getting trained as coaches as well
so it just means that we can we can kind of build people's cycling skills from the
foundation up so that they just kind of feel like they can cycle their own terms
so we're gonna do a lot more focus today on our cornering our bike handling of slow skills
getting a bit more comfortable moving around on the bike a little bit differently so i'm going to
be challenging you to do some things that you might have never considered doing before on your
bike if you just sit on your bike and pedal in a straight line everyone grab their bikes
again look back at me look back
the club is kind of built on the foundation of these slow skill sessions that we do so basically
our concept is really there's no point in going fast if you don't have control um so this is all
about kind of building in those slow skills the core control the bike handling the confidence
and also just the community like because we're in a kind of quieter space we're not kind of dodging
traffic and hurtling through the countryside and trying to smash each other up like we can
actually kind of make genuine connections with each other and hang out as well but yeah i mean
essentially it's um there's a lot of going around cones and me shouting at people to turn their
heads
okay
they're standing up
what was the number one thing i said is going to help you corner
turn your head absolutely as we were over there and i was really kind of like emphasizing looking
at me did anyone kind of realize how much of a difference it made so i'm like new to cycling
with respect to racing and skills and coaching i've never had it before and velocity just gives
you that option of like any form of discipline of cycling it's amazing they do bmx they do mountain
biking they do road cycling track racing and all these slow school sessions i started last year and
um now i've learned so many more things about how to use my bike and what positions to put
my body in i've learnt like a lot from this team and they're super welcoming really friendly and
they give like loads of options for coaching especially for free if you're part of the
team or like these free skill sessions so what it means to me is like yeah an option to become the
cyclist i want to be and they permit that it's amazing it was really fun it's the first time
i've been to one of these it was quite technical but i think it was quite good didn't fall over i
did stuff i didn't expect to do like standing up on a bike which i've never done in one-handed we
have a website which is velocitypassy.cc we also have an instagram which is just at velocity posse
and so basically yeah just dm us or email us club
c if you're a woman or non-binary person or trans person in london and you want to get involved