WOMEN came together to cycle in the memory of a great female hero of cycling.
About a dozen bike enthusiasts, many of them members of Stockton's Cycle Sisters group, cycled 40 miles in memory of pioneering cyclist Billie Fleming, who died last year.
In 1938, Mrs Fleming, then Billie Dovey, gave up her job to ride 29,603.7 miles around Britain in an attempt to promote healthy living, a feat that attracted a huge amount of interest at the time and has never been bettered.
All around the country women cyclists will be holding small cycle rides in her memory over the coming weeks, but the Cycling Sisters decided to hold theirs to coincide with the anniversary of the time Mrs Fleming rode close to Guisborough in 1938.
Cycling Sister, Carole Jones, of Yarm, explained the group met at Aldi car park and then Healaugh Park in Yarm on Saturday morning for a 40 mile ride.
She said: "Billie Fleming is still an inspiration after all these years. It would be great to get more women and girls out and about cycling."
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