Cycling is an individual or team event, where individuals try to improve their timesover distances, on a bicycle. This programme includes touring bikes and racing.
Cycling
What
is it?
Cycling
is an individual or team event, where individuals try to improve their timesover
distances, on a bicycle. This programme includes touring bikes and racing.
Safety
Message
Participants
should know about the Highway Code before they take their bicycle onto theroad.
Participants should also know how to check the suitability of the bike and how
to maintain it.
Ideas/Aims
Learn
how to maintain a bicycle before you take up this activity, including howto
repair punctures etc.
Understand
how to adjust the bicycle so that it is the right size for you,before you
take it out.
If
you are cycling competitively in an indoor arena, learn the rules of
thesport.
Improve
your times over your preferred distance.
Try
cycling over different distances, and if possible, in different arenas.
If
cycling on the road, try different routes of varying difficulty, to testyour
stamina and strength.
Try
cycling your own routes, or some that have been documented in books oflocal
cycling routes.
Touring
– take part in a regular participation programme.
Review/Assessment
The
assessor should make sure that the participant understands how to care fortheir
bicycle, and the participant should demonstrate to the assessor that he/she has
improved their times over the period of participation.
GoverningBody/Organisation
Cyclists
Touring Club, Cotterell House, 69 Meadrow, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 3HS
Tel: 0870 8730060 Website: www.ctc.org.uk
BritishCycling,
The National Cycling Centre, Stuart Street, Manchester, M11 4DQ
Tel:0161 230 2301 Website: www.britishcycling.org.uk