Cycling England - What have they ever done for us?

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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    Cycling England certainly hasn't done much for Wales... ;)
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    softlad wrote:
    Cycling England certainly hasn't done much for Wales... ;)

    :D

    Cycling Scotland gave me two rather nice water bottles, one for each time I finished an event!

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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    I think they are the chaps behind the cycling proficiency tests? My daughter is lined up to do one shortly and she is dead excited about it. I know they won't teach her anything I couldn't but I have found my children have a knack of not hearing parental advice (as in "take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit").

    I hope the tests/training will continue somehow (assuming my assumption is right!).
  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    I think they are the chaps behind the cycling proficiency tests?

    They took over promotion of them and called them bikeability, but they didn't invent them, and I doubt they'll disappear. They didn't do anything that I can see other than promotion, justification of their own existence surveys/studies and distributing cash to partners.
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  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    children have a knack of not hearing parental advice (as in "take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit").

    It probably doesn't help that the "take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit" line has been proven to be just an old wives tale

    anyway, back on topic, cycling proficiency / bikeability seems to be the only good thing cycle england do, but this could easily be provided by locl services and schools. It's probably changed a lot since I did it but we just had a teacher and a school governor teach us and asses us during lunch breaks and we had to sit a short written exam (questions like "what does a flashing amber light on a traffic light indicate?"). I don't imagine it requires too much admin and costs for local councils to run......although local councils do have a knack of making things like this cost a lot more than they should!!!!!
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    The point about Bikeability was to provide professional trainers who could teach to a national standard. Before Bikeability, the cycle proficiency was taught by any old bod who didn't necessarily know correct road positioning or defensive riding.
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  • garrynolan
    garrynolan Posts: 560
    Ollieda wrote:
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    children have a knack of not hearing parental advice (as in "take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit").

    It probably doesn't help that the "take your coat off or you won't feel the benefit" line has been proven to be just an old wives tale

    anyway, back on topic, cycling proficiency / bikeability seems to be the only good thing cycle england do, but this could easily be provided by locl services and schools. It's probably changed a lot since I did it but we just had a teacher and a school governor teach us and asses us during lunch breaks and we had to sit a short written exam (questions like "what does a flashing amber light on a traffic light indicate?"). I don't imagine it requires too much admin and costs for local councils to run......although local councils do have a knack of making things like this cost a lot more than they should!!!!!

    Pardon!!??
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  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    garrynolan wrote:

    Pardon!!??


    exactly which part did you need me to explain.........
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Ollieda wrote:
    garrynolan wrote:

    Pardon!!??


    exactly which part did you need me to explain.........

    He put it in bold. "asses"

    It's should be assess.
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    oh right....missed that bit! im sure theres many more spelling errors in my posts, some not as comical as others!

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