Our Passengers

We launched Cycling Without Age Sheffield in Spring 2019 with Rhubarb the tri-bike. We now have a fleet of three tribikes, two based in Sharrow and one in Lowedges. While our core service is providing weekly rides out for care home residents local to our bases, we also schedule occasional  park-based sessions for groups or for care homes who are located further away. We are excited to be launching park based rides, which individuals with mobility challenges can request  directly with us (link here). 

We offer rides to  passengers with a range of mobility restrictions and also those living with dementia. Passengers need to be able to shuffle backwards into the seat (care home staff or friends/relatives can help with this) and support themselves to sit in the well padded seat with a lap belt. We have a very warm blanket and a selection of gloves and hats. We don’t generally go out if it is raining, but if we get caught in a shower, we have ponchos we can use.

Below is a brief overview of our different services,

• Weekly rides from care homes to parks. Care homes need to be located near to one of our bases.
• Park based rides for groups, or care homes where regular ‘from the door’ rides are not possible. Meeting point in a park.
• Love Park rides. These are rides we can offer for individuals (with a family member or friend). Meeting point in a park.

If you are interested in arranging rides please use the ‘Contact Us’ form and we will get back to you. We are also very keen to recruit new pilots (see ‘our pilots page’).

Care Home rides

We love working with care homes to give rides out to their residents. We usually have a weekly slot and a few different parks local to the care home that we visit: the Botanical Gardens, Endcliffe Park, Weston Park, the General Cemetery in S11/S10 and Graves and Greenhill parks in S8. From our Sharrow base we often can bring two bikes together, which usually means it’s an outing with one care home member of staff accompanying three residents. Family members are also welcome as passengers. New care home rides are dependent on our capacity. There is no charge, but we need one member or staff to come out on rides with us.

This is what Roy of Grange Crescent Residential Care Home had to say about his ride:

“As an OAP I have been amazed to see little children riding 2-wheeled bicycles.  I got my first bike at age 11 (passed the 11-plus!).  Now on Thursday from 10:30-12:30 I and my cosy companion can mount the 3 cosy seats on a 3-wheeler ridden by a healthy young woman who volunteers for “Cycling Without Age Sheffield”.  We trickled through the traffic to Endcliffe Park where there are many children riding bikes.  We enjoy them and the ponds, streams, fish and ducks and eventually end up in the lovely woodland and arrive at the War Memorial.  It attracts many of course who are moved by the words, sculptures and flags.  As an ex-lance corporal in the infantry, I wanted to salute but I salute the system that got me to such a moving place on a 3-wheeler.”

Park based rides

While our regular care home rides are limited to care home partners living close to our bases, with a bit of notice we can offer one off ride sessions within one of the lovely Sheffield Parks, usually Weston Park but others are available! We arrange to meet a group at the park, bringing one or two bikes. You organise transport to/from, and we can give any number of loops round the park, swapping pairs on and off the bike.

We also run frequent ride sessions in the Botanical Gardens and Norfolk Park for the Age UK Wellbeing Centres located within the parks, and at various other park events, especially in the summer. Ideas are very welcome!

Love Park rides

We love to enable adults with mobility restrictions to experience Sheffield’s beautiful parks accompanied by a family member or friend. We arrange to meet you at one of our frequently visited parks, the Botanical Gardens, Endcliffe Park, Weston Park or the General Cemetery.  You will need to make your own way to the park. In the park we do the pedalling, you sit side by side and watch the world glide by. Rides last up to an hour. There is more information on this page.