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The joy of cycling is now something that wheelchair users can experience as well.

Streetbikes, the project in Kirklees to help people take up cycling, is to take delivery of two wheelchair bikes for the benefit of disabled people.

The bicycles have their front wheels replaced with platforms to which wheelchairs are attached. This allows one rider to operate the pedals while another one enjoys a ride in the chair.

The bikes were out together by staff working for Demand, the Design and Manufacture for Disability group based in Holmfirth.

Gaynor Haliday, regional fundraising manager, offered to help Revell Ward’s Karen Borowski and Jennifer Davies complete another of their ‘13 in 2013’ bike rides.

The workers from the accountancy firm are raising cash for charity.

The special bikes were put together in Brockholes and made their debut on the streets of Huddersfield.

They are now being handed over to Streetbikes to enable disabled people to enjoy the experience of cycling.

A grant from the Comic Relief Fund via One Community helped to cover labour and materials costs of manufacture.

Gaynor said: “Last year Demand helped over 3,000 disabled people live, work and play better, and through Streetbikes this project will allow many people in the Kirklees area to experience the joy of cycling in 2014 and beyond.

“We won’t be pedalling it over Holme Moss in Le Grand Depart though – Northumberland Street was steep enough!”

The bikes were built with donations totalling £2,500, a large portion of which was given by staff and customers of the Rose & Crown pub in Thurstonland.

Streetbikes was established some three years ago with the aim of rebuilding damaged and unwanted bikes.

The organisation gives away bicycles and offers riding lessons in order to enhance health and well-being through cycling.

Streetbikes founder Gill Greaves said the wheelchair bikes are used in the mixed-ability sessions which run every Tuesday and Thursday from 10.30am and on Saturdays from 12.30pm.

She said: “The sessions help people to live healthier lives.

“People come to cycle with their families, so there is no segregation by age or ability.”

Streetbikes is run by a group of about 20 people, most of whom are volunteers.

Gill said: “We get more volunteers every week.”

The next big Streetbikes event will be The Real Community Tour Of Yorkshire on May 31, 2014. This will be a celebration of the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire next year.

Anybody can join the event, even if they don’t have a bike. For more details or to book a place, visit www.streetbikes.org.uk or call 078 737 734 17.