Janice Small was born and brought up on Arran. She started cycling twenty years ago on an old mountain bike but caught the bug after doing a charity ride for Leukaemia Research. The following year she took part in a 50 mile Pedal for Scotland ride and was then off, signing up for rides all over the world, from LEJOG to India, Nepal, Bhutan, cycling across America and more mundane destinations (relatively speaking!) including Mallorca, Tenerife and Lanzarote.
In 2013 she set up the Arran Belles, an island Road Cycling group (not affiliated to CTC) and with them she’s cycled the NC500, Coast to Coast, Outer Hebrides, Ardnamurchan Peninsula and many more. There have also been regular day trips to places such as Troon, Bute, Cumbrae, Loch Semple, 5 Ferries route (Janice has completed it seven times!), Tarbert, and Skipness.
You can get a feel for the extreme conditions the group rode through on their NC500 ride in this video:
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First Published: 16 July 2022