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    • RECOMMENDED ROUTES
    • Saturday Rides >
      • Information about rides
      • Information for Hosts
    • Sunday WhimCycles >
      • Reviews
    • Cafe Stops
    • Routes on RWGPS
    • LE TOUR 2023 >
      • Le Tour - Overview
      • Info for Riders
      • Entry Costs
      • Le Tour 2019 - PHOTOS!
    • Strava Club
  • Farcycles Bike Shop
  • Cycle Teaching
    • CYCLING WITH CONFIDENCE COURSE
    • Cycle Training Testimonials
  • Cycle Park
    • Cycle park diary
  • About Us
    • History
    • Picture Gallery >
      • Le Tour 2021 - Photos
      • Curry Lesson
      • We Painted the Town PINK!
      • Cycle Park - unofficial launch
      • Stowford Manor 2019
      • Watchfield and Shrivenham Sports Fair
      • no ride snow day
      • Mince pie ride
      • Sat Aug 2018
      • 10th Anniversary Photos
      • Broadway 2018
    • Events >
      • MAY 2022 Weekend
      • ESCAPE TO THE CHATEAU!
      • TWINNING 2022 Weekend
      • EVENTS ARCHIVED >
        • Pedals, Puddles & Picnic
        • Winter Dinner 2020
        • Music Mayhem 2019
        • 10th Anniversary 2018
  • News
    • Womens Tour Coming Through Faringdon!
    • Community Projects
    • Promoting cycling
    • Blog
  • Useful Stuff
    • Group Cycling Etiquette
    • Insurance
    • Welfare and Safeguarding
    • CORONAVIRUS
    • Links Links Links
  • Contact
  • Donate

FARCYCLES - Who are we?

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Farcycles is a charity that lobbies for cycling infrastructure improvements and tries to influence policymakers on cycling investment. We regularly get involved in projects that facilitate and encourage cycling and sustainable transport.

We are also a loosely connected bunch of ​a couple of a hundred people on bicycles  - of all ages and abilities - who just love cycling together in the stunning countryside around Faringdon in Oxfordshire;  into Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Berkshire.
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And - we DO have a MISSION STATEMENT - should you be wondering.  

We try to provide a home for people on all types of bicycle in the wider Faringdon area, and we try to promote the wonderful benefits and joys of cycling.  We try to be as inclusive as possible. We cater for all ages, abilities and confidence levels. We even tolerate tandems 😀 . We don't ask for subscriptions, but there's endless other ways in which farcyclists contribute to the cause; from being ride leaders,  to helping with Le TOUR de Farcycles Sportive, volunteering on our Bike Shop,  to bikeability training,  to lobbying our MP - to name but a few.  

You don't like history?  I'm not surprised.  But at least ours is short.  

You like CAKE? Check out the BLUE RIDE.  


You're up for a challenge involving the stunning Cotswold countryside? Why not take part in our Le TOUR de Farcycles? 

You think cyclists are a menace - and should be paying road tax?  You've probably stumbled onto this website by accident and should get out while you can - before you get converted.  

And you think photos are self-indulgent nonsense - simply trying to convince others that their lives are somehow better than yours? You're probably right - but so what?  Here's a selection of self-indulgent selfies by farcyclists pretending to enjoy themselves.

You're worried - because you've got a cronky old wreck in the garage and no lycra? In that case,  WhimCycles on Sunday mornings might be just what you're looking for. ​​
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P.S. We often get asked about the pronunciation of Farcycles and Whimcycles . Easy. They rhymes with "bi-sikkels" - kind of. ​
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