Martyn, who became Mayor of Kirklees, is well known to the staff at Ferno and was recently involved with Jon Ellis, in the Pedal for Pounds charity bike ride (see more here).
Martyn is a former Mayor of Mirfield, and says it is a great honour to be the first Councillor from Mirfield to be elected as Mayor of Kirklees.
His wife Liz's grandfather, Harry Oldroyd, was also a councillor on the former Dewsbury District Council and then with Kirklees Council after its creation in 1974.
Away from the Council Martyn likes the outdoors having taken part in many long distance walking events, before taking up cycling again in 2002. Martyn is a member of Ravensthorpe Cycling Club, one of the oldest clubs in the country; he has twice completed the arduous Paris-Brest-Paris ride which demands riders complete a 1200km route in under 90 hours.
Martyn worked for a national cycling charity before being made redundant in 2012, and has been involved with the successful project to bring the Tour de France to Yorkshire. He now organises charity and commercial cycling events.
Martyn is a trustee of a cycle campaign charity and the Mirfield Educational charity, he is the secretary of a memorial fund which helps young cyclists start their professional careers and, if there is any time left, is a member of the Woodsmoke Masonic lodge in Mirfield, which was connected to the Scout movement which Martyn was a member of as a youth.
You can follow Martyn on Twitter here: @martynbolt
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