Roland Bell was meant to be stepping back at Kettering Cycling Club, before the pandemic struck. Four years on, he’s still there, plugging away. “Just before Covid we were getting to the point where I was hoping I could do a handover and step back,” the 63-year-old tells me over the phone from his home. “But because cycling was still permitted, we started a summer holiday school. All the children turned up. So we carried on going.”
His stepping back soon became stepping up. “I was effectively left holding the baby,” he says. “Rather than give it up, I decided to keep it going and reinvigorate it. You keep it going because you know it makes a difference.”
