This quote came from one of our cycle BOOM participants after he had been riding the Raleigh ‘Motus’ e-bike for a couple of weeks, as part of his 8-week ‘wellbeing and cognition’ cycle trial. Read on to find our what others on our e-bike trial have been saying. First, a little background on the wellbeing trials;… [Read More]
School’s outside for summer
The cycle BOOM project is about how our environment and technologies work together to help or hinder peoples’ mobility. Tim Jones and I have been exploring these issues with Year 9 and 10 Design and Technology students from our neighbouring Cheney School. The first challenge for the students was to re-design the environment of east Oxford’s… [Read More]
Raleigh to the cause…
With the cycle BOOM project now in full swing, we are busy planning the months ahead including the electric bike (e-Bike) trials this summer. These will be examining the impacts of this assistive technology on independent mobility, mental performance and wellbeing in comparison to regular cycling. For this we need some quality bikes and our… [Read More]