Iona Hassan

Iona kneels behind her green bike which is set up with bikepacking bags. She wears a helmet, green jersey, gloves and black shorts. A beach is in the background.
Community champion

Iona Hassan

Ride leader and wheel builder

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