Cycle campaigning

It is definitely worth discussing and I see where you are coming from Will. I looked at the list of candidates and thought 'very white, very middle class, many from the same areas, (Hackney, Islington, Southwark) wonder why that is?' These people all put themselves forward so is there a barrier to people from different backgrounds putting themselves forward (I don't think so) or is this a reflection of the membership makeup overall? If the latter, why does that not reflect the cycling community accurately?
We are not shy about discussing gender and ethnicity issues, some of the people who fund us ask the same questions. Because we are a small organisations the percentages change up and down every year. Because we are Londoners it is sometimes difficult to define ethnicity, most of us have a very mixed genealogy.
We are, however, aware that cycling in London is not equally represented among different ethnicities. Cyclists tend to be more white and middle class than the population. Changing that has been one of the aims of the programmes we have managed through the Community Cycling Fund.
Having a higher proportion of women and BME cyclists than in the past is one of the measures of success in the move towards a 'Cycle-ised' City. This is beginning to happen in the inner London boroughs where cycling is becoming normalised.