{"id":473865,"date":"2026-03-13T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473865\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:18:08","slug":"inclusive-bike-sessions-in-plymouth-praised-by-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473865\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusive bike sessions in Plymouth praised by riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scheme has more than 30 adapted bikes including those operated with arms and hands rather than legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Houghton said he has trouble walking as his knees were &#8220;shot&#8221; after spending 34 years serving in the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Houghton, who uses a bike powered by his arms and hands, said he loved going around on the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Being outdoors in the fresh air, doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s rain or shine, it&#8217;s beautiful and there&#8217;s great people up here as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just perfect, it&#8217;s great and all that fresh air in your lungs, you can&#8217;t beat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former PE teacher Ruth Brown got involved with the project after doctors said exercise would help slow down the effects of a spinal condition she had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love coming up here, this group is wonderful as it&#8217;s good for social along with exercise,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scheme has more than 30 adapted bikes including those operated with arms and hands rather than legs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473865","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\/473865","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=473865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}