As always Prakash P Gopinath, Bicycle Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, has several plans to encourage more people to enjoy the ride, on a bicycle. On the occasion of World Bicycle Day today (June 3), Prakash plans to scale up Indus Cycling Embassy’s (ICE) SheCycling campaign to empower women by teaching them to ride a bicycle.
Prakash, founder of ICE, says that as of now they have taught more than 400 women in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi to ride a bicycle. From May 22 to May 30, Beena O and Zeenath MA, volunteers of the SheCycle campaign, were teaching 52 inmates of Sri Chitra Home in Thiruvananthapuram to use a bicycle. Three bicycles were gifted to the home on May 30.
Cycle rally
Cyclists of Trivandrum Bikers Club will take out two rallies on June 3. Both will begin at 5am; one is from Kazhakkoottam to Chakka and the other is from Kowdiar to Chakka. Many of them are daily riders who average about 25 to 50 km every day. Contact: 8089678239.
Under the auspices of ICE, a 10-kilometre bicycle rally will be held on June 4, from Kowdiar. It will begin at 6.30 am and take the riders through the city and conclude at Kowdiar. Contact: 8089494442
