Andrew Payne

Andrew has had a bike for most of his life. As a child, it was the only means of transport but from his late teens, the bike was replaced by a car. Andrew got back into cycling in the late 1990s as a means to keep fit with the expectation of riding 2-3 times a week on warm dry days. Two weeks after purchasing a new bike he got bored and did his first 10-mile time-trial and since then cycling has escalated to a 7-day-a-week activity with annual mileage around 10,000 miles.

Andrew’s cycling activities include:

• Bikeability in schools getting children riding on the road. This normally includes a cycle commute between 10-20 miles each way.
• Working with pie as a guide on a variety of events. Normally on the longer or faster routes.
• Safer Urban Driving course for lorry drivers to highlight the ways cyclists should and shouldn’t behave
• Working with British Cycling as a leader on their Skyrides programme
• Hardcore training for time trials and racing in time trials of 10, 25, 50 & 100 miles along with a few non-standard distances
• Club group rides
• When time allows and not knackered, doing Deliveroo deliveries.

Andrew is a Bikeability level 3 qualified coach and a part qualified British Cycling coach.