CBBC cycling to school

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4930000/newsid_4938800/4938832.stm

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Not that I spend any time on CBBC, but for some reason it was open ... did I
find it here? I searched but couldn't find the link.

Interesting the number of "would love to but am not allowed / it's too
dangerous" responses. Some bizarre restrictions from schools themselves
too. I liked the comment from the Dutch teenager about "this is weird,
here it is perfectly normal to cycle everywhere". Once upon a time it
was fairly normal here too (though not at my secondary school, which was
at the top of the second steepest hill they could find (the local
hospital was at the top of the steepest, just to make sure those pesky
pensioners couldn't get there easily)...

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Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as elyob
<[email hidden]> gently breathed:

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4930000/newsid_4938800/4938832.stm

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Not that I spend any time on CBBC, but for some reason it was open ... did
I
find it here? I searched but couldn't find the link.

Interesting the number of "would love to but am not allowed / it's too
dangerous" responses.

Agreed, I thought it was a nice view into the kids reasons as to why they
don't cycle. Personally, I thought it was excuse after excuse that has been
drummed into them. Give them the choice, they'll try and pull a wheelie in
their slippers with a chocolate bar at the end.

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Some bizarre restrictions from schools themselves
too.

When Nathan was starting to cycle to & from his then high school, there was
no problem locking the bike up as there was (still is as far as I know), an
old-fashioned bike shed. The main problem was where to keep his lid. These
days, kids don't have desks in which they can store things. Lockers were in
very short supply. Basically most kids end up carrying *everything* all day
to and from every lesson. So he asked his form teacher if he could leave his
lid in the classroom cupboard in the morning and then collect it again at
the end of the day - this being the classroom in which he started every day.

He was told that this was far to inconvenient for the teacher.

'nuff sed really.

Cheers, helen s

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Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as elyob
<[email hidden]> gently breathed:

Quoted message said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4930000/newsid_4938800/4938832.stm

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Not that I spend any time on CBBC, but for some reason it was open ... did I
find it here? I searched but couldn't find the link.

Quoted message said:

Interesting the number of "would love to but am not allowed / it's too
dangerous" responses. Some bizarre restrictions from schools themselves
too. I liked the comment from the Dutch teenager about "this is weird,
here it is perfectly normal to cycle everywhere". Once upon a time it
was fairly normal here too (though not at my secondary school, which was
at the top of the second steepest hill they could find (the local
hospital was at the top of the steepest, just to make sure those pesky
pensioners couldn't get there easily)...

My secondary school was at the top of a very steep hill, steep enough
that none of the many who cycled to school cycled up it. We walked our
bikes up, so between 8:30 and 9am there were great platoons of kids
walking bikes up the hills and chatting to each other as they walked.

Walking bikes up steep hills is an ancient cycling skill that seems
now to have disappeared. I hear lots of folk nowadays saying that they
would cycle to work, shops, etc., except that a certain hill is too
steep to cycle up so they can't. It's not really very difficult to
walk a bike up a hill, although I haven't been able to find a web page
explaining exactly how to do it. Perhaps that's the problem?

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My secondary school was at the top of a very steep hill, steep enough
that none of the many who cycled to school cycled up it. We walked our
bikes up, so between 8:30 and 9am there were great platoons of kids
walking bikes up the hills and chatting to each other as they walked.

Walking bikes up steep hills is an ancient cycling skill that seems
now to have disappeared. I hear lots of folk nowadays saying that they
would cycle to work, shops, etc., except that a certain hill is too
steep to cycle up so they can't. It's not really very difficult to
walk a bike up a hill, although I haven't been able to find a web page
explaining exactly how to do it. Perhaps that's the problem?

Shock Horror -- Sheldon Brown does not have the answer to all cycling
problems!

:~(

Perhaps there are no hills in the colonies.

;~)

T

Tony W said:

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My secondary school was at the top of a very steep hill, steep enough
that none of the many who cycled to school cycled up it. We walked our
bikes up, so between 8:30 and 9am there were great platoons of kids
walking bikes up the hills and chatting to each other as they walked.

Walking bikes up steep hills is an ancient cycling skill that seems
now to have disappeared. I hear lots of folk nowadays saying that they
would cycle to work, shops, etc., except that a certain hill is too
steep to cycle up so they can't. It's not really very difficult to
walk a bike up a hill, although I haven't been able to find a web page
explaining exactly how to do it. Perhaps that's the problem?

Shock Horror -- Sheldon Brown does not have the answer to all cycling
problems!

:~(

Perhaps there are no hills in the colonies.

;~)

T

No red-blooded American is going to admit to having to walk up a hill!
These Brits are just getting too soft.

John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
(Who hates walking up hills- and will rarely admit to doing it. 🙂

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No red-blooded American is going to admit to having to walk up a hill!
These Brits are just getting too soft.

Old, but good ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthews/273052/

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Old, but good ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthews/273052/

A few weeks ago I happened to be walking past the local gym and I
noticed an escalator just inside the front door. I must go back with a
camera some time.

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elyob said:

Old, but good ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthews/273052/

A few weeks ago I happened to be walking past the local gym and I noticed
an escalator just inside the front door. I must go back with a camera
some time.

better access for the disabled perhaps; people rehabilitating after injury??

Tony W said:

Shock Horror -- Sheldon Brown does not have the answer to all cycling
problems!

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html:
"Really steep hills may make you get off and walk"

sothach said:

Tony W said:

Shock Horror -- Sheldon Brown does not have the answer to all cycling
problems!

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html:
"Really steep hills may make you get off and walk"

Only on a fixer.

If there's one thing supermarket specials have (if the gears are working)
it's low enough gears that can get you up hills as steep as anything you'll
find with tarmac on.

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I said:

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A few weeks ago I happened to be walking past the local gym and I noticed
an escalator just inside the front door. I must go back with a camera
some time.

and erics suggested:

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better access for the disabled perhaps; people rehabilitating after injury??

Perhaps, but then why not a lift?

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I said:

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A few weeks ago I happened to be walking past the local gym and I noticed
an escalator just inside the front door. I must go back with a camera
some time.

and erics suggested:

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better access for the disabled perhaps; people rehabilitating after
injury??

Perhaps, but then why not a lift?

Cost? Space? Building suitability? Modern image? When you go back to take
your photo perhaps ask them. Does the gym have a car park - if so perhaps
they should eliminate that as well to encourage people to walk/cycle?