Have you passed your Cycling Proficiency?

[mick1836]

Got mine many years ago at school and recall the examiner was a Police Officer?

 

[13 rider]

Passed mine at Infant school about age 9 in 1976 .My nephew wears my badge on his school blazer . I gave to him when he passed his about 6 years ago and they didn't get a badge and he had a thing about badges .

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Did mine on my Kingpin which was still quite new then, so 1980 or '81. I know the certificate is still lurking around in a safe place as I saw it not that long ago but I don't remember having one of the badges.

 

[cyberknight]

Passed mine in 1978 on my sister bike cos the bloke wouldn't let me use my Chopper.

I must have passed mine at a similar time, had to cycle a fair way ( well maybe 5 miles ) to school to do it i remember too .

 

[Hitchington]

Yes, I had to borrow my nan's raleigh shopper to do it on.

 

[donnydave]

Yep. 1992. Nailed it.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I passed my cycling proficiency in rural Cambridgeshire on real roads in the mid 70s. I've probably still got the little badge somewhere, I found it in a drawer a year or so ago.

 

[Jenkins]

Passed the Cycling Proficiency test in the mid '70s at Trimley St. Mary primary school. I still have the badge...

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I'm from abroad, we don't have this, anyway never had a bike as a child.
I started riding regularly a few years ago, aged 48, mainly to save on commuting time.
Because of my involvement with a ladies cycling group, I got offered and took ride leader training and a cycle trainer course.
I failed the cycle trainer course first time - got to assistant only, then did it again and passed - barely
While I'm quite confident about the rules of the road, got a british driving license, I'm still not so good in manouvring the bike, especially tight right turns ... the cones thing

 

[burndust]

Cycling proficiency done a primary school Must be about 25 years ago...instructors were 2 coppers...I do remember doing the whole thing on an old ladies folding bike....embarrassing to say the least

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I failed it.

I forget why but it may have been something to do with the bike I was on, my mother's Rayleigh shopper. Iirc despite my size for my age, I could not sit on the saddle and reach the pedals, so simple cycled standing up until I grew into the bike a few years later. I didn't get my own bike until I was 15.

 

[User33236]

I recall my primary school running it on alternate years for the top year only meaning every second year pupils missed out. Guess what half I was in?

 

[the_mikey]

I've never had any bicycle training but I've been cycling on the road since I was 7, I recall many childhood bike rides from where I used to live in Warmley to Pucklechurch where my grandparents lived, always following my mum. We didn't have a car..

 

[Jimidh]

I did mine on my old Chipper Bike about 40 years ago which meant i was able to handle my upgrade to a Chopper at the following Christmas although i did ignore the no "backies" warning on the seat.

 

[Sharky]

Can hardly remember, but yes passed and the Certificates were presented by Harold Wilson!

Also passed my Cycling Badge with the scouts first time, but on leaving, noticed that we had just cycled back to the Police HQ by cycling up a one-way road in the wrong direction!

Keith