Being happy cyclists ourselves, we realized that girls and women in Britain rarely use a bicycle, whilst a bike is a must for teenagers in many other European countries. So we decided to document the individual reasons, cultural backgrounds and political constraints on a human beings decision about how to get from A to B.

Darlington Media Group is engaging local teenagers in the issue of personal mobility throughout 2009 by producing a documentary film, a photographic exhibition and a project catalogue with DVD from our work. These bilingual (German and English) works will be distributed to other European communities as a means of widening the debate about teenage cycling culture. Our website is at www.bikebeauty.org