As part of the Cycling City project, the Council is subsidising lessons for adults wanting to learn to ride a bike. They are just £5 an hour (plus £5 to hire bike) and my girlfriend and I are both going to give it a go. The training is offered through Bristol-based charity Life Cycle UK and I fully recommend them from what I experienced yesterday lunchtime!
Monday, 31 August 2009
Terror overcome!
As mentioned previously, I volunteered to to try to learn to ride a bike this weekend. I was just as scared as I thought I would be. I had a good go at it though and I made some good progress, although I am still some way off going onto the streets. You can see a short video of me making a fool of myself below - it was quite shaming to see all the little kids whizzing around without a thought and me teetering and wobbling around. You can probably see the terror in my face... though it wasn't as bad as all that.
As part of the Cycling City project, the Council is subsidising lessons for adults wanting to learn to ride a bike. They are just £5 an hour (plus £5 to hire bike) and my girlfriend and I are both going to give it a go. The training is offered through Bristol-based charity Life Cycle UK and I fully recommend them from what I experienced yesterday lunchtime!
As part of the Cycling City project, the Council is subsidising lessons for adults wanting to learn to ride a bike. They are just £5 an hour (plus £5 to hire bike) and my girlfriend and I are both going to give it a go. The training is offered through Bristol-based charity Life Cycle UK and I fully recommend them from what I experienced yesterday lunchtime!
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Good for you Neil! Don't give up - you'll soon get the hang of it and learning the correct way is by far the best rather than getting it all wrong and having to re-learn it all later. Good road skills are fundamental to enjoying riding on the streets of Bristol.
I hope you'll be an inspiration to many more would-be cyclists.
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