Bikeability and balance bike training
Build a skill for life with our cycle training programmes
Expert instructors deliver quality training to create safe, skilled and confident cyclists.
From improving heart health, boosting fitness and relieving stress to enhancing navigational skills and helping the planet, there’s so many benefits of bike riding. But we know cycling doesn’t come without challenge and risk.
Our Balance Bike Training and Bikeability Level 1 and 2 programmes develop cycling skills and confidence in children from a young age, helping them to stay safe and gain a passion for life.
Balance Bike Training
Give children the skills to cycle without ever needing stabilisers.
Our Balance Bike Training develops the confidence, spatial awareness and dynamic balance skills children need to become skilled cyclists.
- Age: KS1
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 10 pupils
- Length of course: One 45-minute session per week delivered over 4 weeks
- Typical timings: 9am - 9.45am
- Equipment: We provide all equipment, including bikes, helmets and learning resources.
Bikeability Level 1
Children’s route to bike control and mastery.
Bikeability Level 1 typically takes place in your school’s playground away from the road and traffic. Children learn to carry out a simple safety check, get on and off the bike without help, control the bike without wobbling, and master quick and effective braking.
- Age: Year 3 or 4
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 12 pupils
- Length of course: 2-hour session
- Typical timings: 9am-11am / 1pm-3pm
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for a small fee.
Bikeability Level 2
Children’s route to on-road.
Pupils are guided around local streets by expert instructors to become familiar with the roads and gain the skills to navigate traffic with confidence. Children learn road safety, the Highway Code, how to prepare for on-road cycling, recognise road hazards, and use hand signals.
- Age: Year 5 or 6
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 12 pupils
- Length of course: 2-day course. 3-hour session per day.
- Typical timings: 9am-12pm / 12.30pm-3.30pm
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for a small fee.
What's the cost?
Your school has options when it comes to funding balance bike training and Bikeability. Options include various school sport partnerships, Youth Sport Trust and the Department for Transport.
2020-21 in numbers
Supported
956 children
on Bikeability Level 2
Supported
21 children
on Bikeability Level 1
Supported
413 children
on Balance Bike Training
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