No matter how tough a ride turns out to be, Iona is someone you can count on to stay positive. As a coach and ride leader, she gives a lot of time and energy introducing people to BMX and mountain biking. She is also a wheel builder and mechanic at Stayer Cycles and she teaches women and young people how to ride and maintain their own bikes at Community Cycleworks.

“I got hold of my friend's daughter's old bike and started pedalling 10km a day every day one January to see if I could stick at it! A couple of years later I cycled from Roscoff, France to Venice then Kenya to Cape Town