BikeIT like Ben!
Before moving up the big smoke for a second stint in London and to master the service design ways, I was lucky to live due south on the coast in Brighton. There, I got involved volunteering with Sustrans ; in their own words they are the UK charity that make it easier for people to walk and cycle. A core part of their work takes part in schools through their team of dedicated 'BikeIT Officers' who all go by their first names. I was lucky enough to work with BikeIT Ben , who is well known and loved in primary and secondary schools across Brighton & Hove, where he has been helping kids and parents to get on their bikes for several years. When he is not clocking up the miles - and the hills - around Brighton, cycling between schools on his fully-laiden Surly cargo bike, his work ranges from helping kids fix their bikes and getting them bike building from scratch, to leading bike rides to the beach and hosting cycling assemblies where the peddle-powered Smoothie Bike is alwa