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Cycling

Cycling is a great way to travel.  As well as the environmental benefits, it is an easy way to keep fit and active. Here are some useful resources and guides to help support your school community get cycling.

Learning to ride

Ditch the Stabilisers is a step-by-step guide showing parents and carers how to help their children remove the stabilisers and give them the confidence to ride on two wheels.

Teaching a child to ride without stabilisers is a great video to support the guide above, giving a practical demonstration of how to help a child cycle free of stabilisers.

Bike It Ray's Bike Skills are a series of short videos to help young people and families become confident, safe cyclists.

Cycling safely

Check your bike is safe to ride is a practical, step-by-step guide about checking a bicycle is safe to ride using the M Check method. 
The Bicycology Guide to Brakes is a great guide to adjusting brakes and replacing brake blocks. 

Cycle Skills is an information PowerPoint which goes through overall bike maintenance including how to remove a wheel and fix a puncture. 

Cycling with Bike It Jenny and Bike it Ray is a handy video that covers bike maintenance, road safety and how to cycle safely around Southampton.

 

Further guidance and resources

Walk Wheel Cycle Trust is a charity working to improve everyday journeys for everyone.

The Bikeability Trust is a charity which helps people to have the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life.