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 Bikeability‘Bikeability’ is the cycling proficiency test for the 21st century. It's a three badge award scheme designed to give children the skills and confidence to ride their bikes on today’s roads. The Bikeability award consists of a luminous metal badge, booklet, certificate and a letter to parents. |
| Cycle rides with kids: some top tips This is a condensed selection of tips ("bring a friend along too"); that would grace the best of web sites aimed at a national audience yet is from a micro-site aimed at cyclists in Worcester only. |
| Bicycle Safety for Kids There's an excellent four-page PDF on teaching kids how to be road-safe on their bikes at the online library of the US-based Active Living Resource Center. Scrol down to the 'Healthier Children' section and download 'Bicycle Safety: What Every Parent Should Know' |
| Get cycle active Cycle Active is a Lake District based cycle holiday company that also hosts skills training camps for young mountain bikers. Cycle Active's trainers have been through British Cycling's Go Ride programme and all are qualified Mountain Bike Leaders. Cycle Active can run courses for schools, clubs, and after-school clubs. |
| Bike to School Week 2006 This is a pilot scheme proposed and organised by Bike Week HQ. |
| British Schools Cycling Association (BSCA); The BSCA, founded in 1967, wants to "increase the number of active cyclists amongst young people of school age and to offer them a wide range of educational experiences in the enjoyment of cycling." It adminsters a number of award schemes. |
| London's Cyclesafer Challenge The Cyclesafer Challenge is a competition by Transport for London and the Cycle Show held at Excel, London. The scheme aims to get year 4 and 5 students from across London thinking creatively about safety when cycling. |
| ABC of pre-ride checks A point-by-point list from the League of American Bicyclists. |
| Mike and His Bike This is a website promoting an American book with an accompanying CD. The foreword is by Lance Armstrong and the book is narrated by Phil 'voice of cycling' Liggett. The site is also packed with kid-friendly, bike-related games, colouring pix, songs and nutrition tips. There's also an opportunity for kids to upload their favourite bicycle pix, or pix of them riding. |
| Kids on the Move The 'Kids on the move' PDF - a publication of the European Commission - contains 15 "practical suggestions... on how to address the issue of child mobility from the point of view of a parent, a school, a transport operator, a local authority and a child itself." |
 Child protection takes centre stageThis is a Feb 2007 article on the British Cycling website that shows how the governing body for UK cycle sport takes child protection very seriously. |
| Finding the cycling stars of the future Go-Ride is a traffic-free cycling programme for young people run by British Cycling, the governing body of competitive cycling in the UK. There are numerous Go-Ride clubs around the country with British Cycling coaches and there also Go-Ride events in primary and secondary schools, aiming to find the Olympic champions of the future. Be warned: the website uses Flash - a form of website animation - and can be unstable. |
