Bikeability cycle training: train the trainers, Palmerston North

Cycle Aware Manawatu Bikeability cycle training workshop

Saturday 30^th / Sunday 31^th January 2010 9am – 4:30pm

Cycle Aware Manawatu Bikeability cycle training workshop

Saturday 30^th / Sunday 31^th January 2010 9am – 4:30pm, venue tbc

Trainers: Tabitha Langford and Patrick Morgan, UK-trained and experienced cycle trainers.

This courses will prepare instructors to teach Grade 2 of the NZ cycle skills training guideline.

More info at CAN Bikeability: www.bikeability.co.nz

In this practical course, training will focus on
1. course content
2. teaching style
3. group management
Trainees will gets lots of practice setting up and teaching Grade 2 skills.

Grade 2: skills to ride in traffic

Outcome
The trainee cyclist can safely perform manoeuvres and turns in a variety of traffic environments.
They will be able to choose options to deal with minor hazards and demonstrate this in practice.
They will show good understanding of traffic awareness and road positioning in these traffic environments.

Overview
• 7-8 hours in total (30 minutes theory and 6 hours on-road)
• Trainee to instructor maximum ratio of 30 to 1 (theory) and 6 to 1 (practical)
• Cycle skills sufficiently developed to deal with a variety of traffic situations

• 10+ years old (year 6)

• Equipment required - whiteboard, clipboard, basic toolkit and bike pump, first aid kit, mobile phone

Core skills for grade 2
The trainee should be able to demonstrate the following core skills consistently for grade 2:

• achieve all grade 1 core skills

• recall an understanding of road signs and the road rules
• start from side of road (kerb)

• stop on side of road (kerb)

• ride along the road

• pass a parked or slower moving vehicle

• turn left - at a controlled and uncontrolled intersection
• turn right - at a controlled and uncontrolled intersection
• travelling straight through controlled and uncontrolled intersections.

Timetable
Saturday 30 January

9am, introductions
9.10, course overview and outcomes, about NZ cycle training guidelines

Overview of core skills for grade1
The trainee should be able to do the following core skills consistently for grade 1:

• carry out a bike check

• carry out a helmet check
• understand the legal requirements and safety equipment for bicycles

• get on and off the bike without help

• start off and pedal without help

• stop quickly and with control

• steer the bike where they want to go

• look behind

• signal - stop, left and right
• using the gears.

10.30, break
10.50, teach and practise Grade 2 skills
12.30, lunch
1.15, continue teach and practise Grade 2 skills
2.45, break
3, continue teach and practise Grade 2 skills
4.30, finish

Sunday 31 January
all day, trainees to teach Grade 2 skills
Where to from here: setting up training courses, funding, keeping in touch