Exercise your wheels
Get your family out 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 family to get cycling.
How to stop using stabilisers
Ditch the Stabilisers is a step-by-step guide from Sustrans which shows you how to help your children remove their stabilisers and give them the confidence to ride on two wheels.
Lose the stabilisers is a great video guide for parents from Sustrans Bike it Ben
Learn how to look after your bike
The Bicycology Guide to Brakes is everything you needed to know about how to fix your brakes and ensure you are cycling safely. It shows you how to replacing your brake blocks, how to adjust your brake position and brake cable and explains the different type of brake systems.
Sustrans Cycle Skills is an information presentation which takes you through overall bike maintenance including how to remove a wheel and fix a puncture. It also shows you what tools you need to look after your bike.
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
Bike skills
Sustrans Bike It Ray has created some great short videos helping you and you children to become confident cyclists, from stopping and starting to cornering., as well ask bike maintenance and how to clean your bike in under 10 minutes!
The Bikeability Trust is a charity which helps people to have the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life. They have developed Bikeability Family cycle training to help get families on their bikes. To find a course near you, visit their Find family Cycle Training page and submit your postcode.