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Paul Boyd
Guest
Just curious - do schools that teach cycling to kids need to have an
experienced and qualified cyclist doing the teaching, or will any old
spare teacher do?
There is a reason for asking! I was delivering in the works van this
afternoon, and the premises were immediately after a sharp left hand
bend. I always take this bend slowly because I'm pulling into a
driveway and don't want to be rear ended, so I slow down following
traffic in advance! Anyway, also on outside of this bend were a group
of brightly-clad kids being "taught" how to turn right into a side road,
by starting from the inside of the bend! At one point I heard the
"teacher" shouting at a child that she shouldn't have pulled out because
of the speed that cars come around the bend. None of the children
looked confident on their bikes, and some were wearing full-face helmets
that seemed far too big for them that must have restricted their vision.
To me, this seemed a ludicrous place to teach nervous youngsters how to
do a right turn, especially as the instructor obviously knew that cars
take the bend far too fast.
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Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/
experienced and qualified cyclist doing the teaching, or will any old
spare teacher do?
There is a reason for asking! I was delivering in the works van this
afternoon, and the premises were immediately after a sharp left hand
bend. I always take this bend slowly because I'm pulling into a
driveway and don't want to be rear ended, so I slow down following
traffic in advance! Anyway, also on outside of this bend were a group
of brightly-clad kids being "taught" how to turn right into a side road,
by starting from the inside of the bend! At one point I heard the
"teacher" shouting at a child that she shouldn't have pulled out because
of the speed that cars come around the bend. None of the children
looked confident on their bikes, and some were wearing full-face helmets
that seemed far too big for them that must have restricted their vision.
To me, this seemed a ludicrous place to teach nervous youngsters how to
do a right turn, especially as the instructor obviously knew that cars
take the bend far too fast.
--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/