Cycling Without Age is based around a simple idea: give people who are physically unable to ride a bike a chance to ride a bike, and give able-bodied people a chance to do good.
Perhaps, then, simplicity is the recipe for success. Since starting in 2011, Cycling Without Age has spread to 39 countries, and has 3,050 locations. It is powered by an incredible 39,000 volunteers, and has provided the joy of cycling to over 650,000 people. Cycling Without Age isn’t a club or a charity; it’s a movement.
The man behind the movement is Ole Kassow, a Dane for whom cycling is not about lycra and watts, but about mobility, freedom, and being present in the world. Kassow says our urban spaces would be better if they were built around the needs of the most vulnerable.
As he says, “if we can build societies and cities and communities where our grandmothers would thrive, then my conviction is that everyone would thrive.”
Amid the continued success of Kassow’s movement, GCN spoke to him to find out more.
