{"id":462545,"date":"2026-03-07T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:30:08","slug":"santander-bikes-named-after-inspirational-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462545\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander bikes named after inspirational cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the 10 women selected by a panel from City Hall, TfL and Santander, nine are described as modern unsung heroes and one as a historical pioneer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founder of Northwest Pedal Express in Brent, Annahita Benbow, was recognised for leading weekly bike buses that help children travel to school with confidence and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carol Summers, a London Ambulance Service paramedic of more than 20 years has been honoured for inspiring her colleagues to cycle and respond to 999 calls by bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other women celebrated are ultracyclist, courier and author Emily Chappell, Sikh cycling club leader Harjit Kaur Lakhan, Camden cycling campaigner Jean Dollimore, and Dr Jenny Drife, a consultant psychiatrist who cycles daily across Lambeth and Southwark to reach rough sleepers in parks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Naomi Rumble, director of Together We Ride, and Terry Clarke, a cycling leader for U3A, complete the list. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 10th bike has been named after Tessie Reynolds, who in 1893 set a record for cycling from Brighton to London and back in 8 hours and 30 minutes at a time when women were not recognised as cyclists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helen Cansick, one of the judges, said: &#8220;We hope celebrating these women on Santander Cycles will encourage even more women and girls to experience the joy of cycling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the 10 women selected by a panel from City Hall, TfL and Santander, nine are described as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}