Anyone had experience with these clowns my daughter attended one of the courses at her School I was surprised to hear that one of the instructors rejected my daughters bike on tyres adding that she would not be allowed to ride on the second day without them being changed. On inspecting her current tyres which I do regular basis I found nothing wrong with them apart from them starting to reach the end of their service life but by no means there yet. Rushing about I managed to find a set 24 x 1.85 with tubes for £51 at the local boutique bike shop. On the internet I could have done this for £30 but I did not wish to disappoint my daughter however if I had known about the officious health and safety aspects of the course I would have not put her on it. A lot of parents were told they would have to fix the kids bike before they could go out and a lot would not have been able to do it in time.
Bikeability Woes
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Bikeability is a scheme, like the old cycling proficiency was. There are many instructors/examiners, with different practices. Who are yours?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Arse covering for insurance. Anyone turns up on one of my courses with a machine that's even slightly suspect gets sent away. I pay the premiums, I decide what's fit to roll or not, which isn't unreasonable.
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My daughters bike was flagged for the rear disk brake not being adjusted properly (braking was a bit lacklustre). They did not bump her off the course though. I made sure my sons bike was 100% for his bikeability last week. He passed the first level.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Rather them than me. Last thing I want is an insurer to refuse a claim because.I knew.about a.mechanical issue and did nothing about it, and leave myself open for compensation in court.
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Many kids bikes are down right dangerous. I do side with the instructors.
lee1980sim
Senior Member
- Location
- South Yorkshire
If you don't like it don't do it, it doesn't stop you from riding a bike (or does it), but as far as I know the point is safety so it would be rather hypocritical for an instructor to allow in their opinion unsafe bikes / practice on a course they're in charge of
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
Some of the stuff that turns up when my wife does cycling with her guides is truly shocking. I've tried to get her to do a maintenance evening the week before but we aren't there yet.
They all have helmets on though so it must be fine.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
It's the no brakes that gets me. Add that to crap quality = disaster
Do some schools insist that their children have to have passed Bikeability or anything similar before they are actually allowed to ride to school?
I seem to remember it being mentioned somewhere at some point in the past..
I seem to remember it being mentioned somewhere at some point in the past..
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?p=872869#p872869 discusses this, but in short, some definitely do and we don't know of any measurement of how common that is.