4 March 2013

To mark the start of a week of articles dedicated to women's cycling, ahead of on Friday, we look at the Breeze programme.

Breeze is the biggest programme ever to get more women into riding bikes for fun. We’re helping thousands more women feel confident and comfortable about going on a ride. Currently three times more men than women cycle for fun, so at British Cycling we've decided to try and change that. 

Find out more about joining a Breeze bike ride, becoming one of our amazing champions, improving your bike skills or finding a female-friendly bike shop – all on breezebikerides.com

British Cycling's Jill Puttnam is the head of Breeze and we spoke to her last week when she outlined her vision of the programme: