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Are you guys National Standard Instructors or just trolls?

Bikeability requires us to teach basic safety checks and maintenance.

https://www.electric-bike-conversions.co.uk/ used to do the conversions for you at extra cost, maybe legislation or their insurance prevents them now, I don't know. Give them a ring and ask the question, they were very helpful for me. Failing that the conversion is quite simple for an average bike m...

M check is a very good explanation to year 4, 5 and 6 children AND pretty good for everyone else. Can't really see how it can be different fro different people as it is all encompassing, simple and efficient. I'm happy to take risks and sort out most problems on other people's bikes, been doing it f...

None of the posts above get very close to the facts. Peddlers was closed because the owner hadn't paid rent for months, the landlord forced the bankruptcy. The assets were sold to pay the debtors. The partner with the eye problem had left the partnership some time beforehand and was unaware of the s...

My wife cycled with (one) foot drop due to MS. With spd clips she had no problems on the back of the tandem. Provided you have shoes clipped in i wouldn't have thought it would be a problem, but every case is different. Check with your consultant. She has primary progressive MS and eventually began ...

robing wrote:Anyone have any info on Lanzarote? Going there in Jan.

Can't remember name of shop we hired MTB tandem from, but they dropped us off at airport when collecting tandem at end of hire and would have picked us up at the airport when we arrived if we'd asked.
Well worth asking!

mattheus wrote:One could argue that the words "left" and "right" are confusing jargon! : P

It would appear that you could argue with anything......... : P

Having done the survey I don't think this is aimed at real keen enthusiasts it needs to be sent to people who don't cycle much

If you’re saying “ car up ahead” you’ve added another word, that could be a crucial time period, dependant on relative group / vehicle speed. Again, to say “ car back “ requires you to form the ‘plosive’ b, which interrupts the more flowing r-u sound. Try it, your lips don’t meet each other, until ...

Should there be a need to single out the outer rider drops back into the space created by the inner rider in row 2 who has dropped back. A decent group knows and does this. It was banged into club newbies from day one. Of course now we have people who learn to ride on the www and by watching racing...

“Car front” and “car back” don’t give you the third ( crucial ) bit of info, (what’s the vehicle doing). Hence the reason for the ( very much existent ) standard. Please explain why you need more information other than 'car-front' meaning a car is coming towards your front and 'car-back' meaning a ...

“Car front” and “car back” don’t give you the third ( crucial ) bit of info, (what’s the vehicle doing). Hence the reason for the ( very much existent ) standard. Please explain why you need more information other than 'car-front' meaning a car is coming towards your front and 'car-back' meaning a ...

For example, can you argue that "car up" meaning "car moving up the group" is more or less safe than meaning "car up ahead"? And then what about "car back" which I suspect is more widely understood but used by few? Agreed - precisely why 'Car-up' is not a sen...

The only way to make it stick would be some law or court ruling, but that's a level of state interference that I hope we never suffer. Absolutely no reason why CUK/BC/DoT shouldn't extend the National Cycling Standards/Bikeability to include group riding, and from what some have being writing here,...

Bad calls / non existent calls, are one of my pet peeves when leading a ride ( of which I have, many times ) Particularly when someone behind me, calls “car up”, and they are referring to a vehicle approaching me, from in front ( this happens a lot ). Newcomers have no idea what 'Car-up' or 'Car-do...