What became of Cycling Proficiency?

[Dave Davenport]

The latest instructor training manual IS NOT written by Cycle Training UK. Your Instructor Training Manual might be. Mine was written by a good friend of mine, and myself. We are National Standard Instructor Trainers who worked bloody hard to get ITO status whilst working for the Road Safety team of our local council and we oversee/mentor/train instructors in the delivery of cycle training of 3 local authorities

That's put me in my place.

 

[Dec66]

Cycling proficiency?

Ride round London's main routes for a week.

If you're not dead at the end, you've passed.

 

[EltonFrog]

Cycling proficiency?

Ride round London's main routes for a week.

If you're not dead at the end, you've passed.

I used to do that every day as a kid, miles and miles around north west London, yet I wasn't allowed to bring my bike into the school grounds bike shed for safe keeping because I hadn't passed the cycling proficiency test. I used to lock it to the school fence outside. Feck em.

 

[Svendo]

My certificate, gained riding round the playground in 1980 on the Raleigh Blazer, similar to the one in my avatar. I don't really remember the courses content though, but I do recall needing the headmasters help to get the tiny tyre off the wheel to mend a puncture because me or my mum couldn't do it.