Anti-cycling campaigners thwart New Forest cycle hire scheme

New Forest cycle hire scheme could be scrapped despite £2million of government funding

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Anti-cycling campaigners in the New Forest could remarkably help scrap plans to launch a £2million Government-funded bike hire scheme.

A petition to overrule the impending suspension of the sponsored scheme has already received over 1,000 signatures.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.