BBC News: Cycling mums to tow toddlers 1,000km across Turkey
BBC News: Cycling mums to tow toddlers 1,000km across Turkey
As seen on BBC News: our Turkey cycling adventure with two mums, two toddlers and two e-bikes.
The BBC feature introduces our plans to ride 1,000km through Turkey, carrying camping equipment and towing our children, Skyla and Leo. It explores how Tori Williams and I are adapting adventure to motherhood, from snacks and potty training to the physical demands of riding day after day.
For me, returning to a bicycle after my 2014 cycling accident, seven surgeries and life with chronic pain makes this journey particularly meaningful. For Tori, the fundraiser honours her mum Wendy, who died from leukaemia aged 39 when Tori was just ten.
We’re raising money for Leukaemia UK while showing that becoming a mum can open up a different kind of adventure.
Read “Cycling mums to tow toddlers 1,000km across Turkey” on BBC News.
Explore the Turkey expedition or support our Leukaemia UK fundraiser.
If you’re new here, I’m Vanessa Ruck, The Girl On A Bike: a motivational speaker, motorcycle racer, adventurer, content creator and mum living with chronic pain. Adventure has been a huge part of rebuilding my life after my accident.
The Girl On A Bike thegirlonabike
I'm a bike loving, free spirited adventurer born and raised in England. Life took a turn in 2014. In a single moment life as I knew it was taken away by the momentary lapse in judgement of a red-light-jumping car while I was cycling. My recovery to fitness took a little over 7 years with 7 major surgeries and since that day I've made it my goal to make the most out of life. My biggest goal is to help encourage others to get up and get out there. It doesn’t matter what it is, but we all start somewhere and if I can do it, so can you! Let’s make the most of life, what we do have around us and have fun doing it.
