“There was a time when I felt like the token woman and it felt very much a club for boys but it’s different now; it’s fantastic and a lot of it is down to social media. Women are very much in the driving seat.”

“From then my passion for cycling grew and my confidence started to build when I joined the club and people were recognising my improvements. I was not sporty in my teens and there was a stigma attached to cycling so it was never an interest of mine, but I wish I found my love for cycling sooner. I am determined to get a wide age range of women enrolling within the club and help break the women in sports barrier.”

“I cycled a lot in my teens, then never really got back to it. I bought a road bike two years ago and thanks to the club got cycling regularly with a club social group and went on to complete the Lochness Etape and the Oban Sportive in my first year.”