{"id":159681,"date":"2025-06-05T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159681\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T07:58:09","slug":"wolverhampton-cycling-champion-welcomes-return-of-mass-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159681\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton cycling champion welcomes return of mass bike ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsonbike.org\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kidical Mass, external<\/a> is a worldwide movement aiming to make cities more cycle-friendly for children and young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Qaiser Azeem, the council&#8217;s cabinet member for transport, said it was a &#8220;wonderful opportunity&#8221; to practice safe cycling on public routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those taking part are asked to bring their own bikes and helmets, with younger children to be accompanied by an adult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Porter, who went on to become the BBC&#8217;s voice of cycling for many years, said: &#8220;As a former world champion and cycling ambassador for the city it is music to my ears to see people riding bikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wish the Kidical Mass family bike ride every success on the day, and I hope it attracts lots of youngsters to pedal around the route.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kidical Mass, external is a worldwide movement aiming to make cities more cycle-friendly for children and young people.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-159681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114629699390678820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}