Cycling Proficiency Test

[Mick F]

Mine.
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Like it Michael F

I blanked out my full name!

Actually, that certificate was scanned some years ago, and I Photoshopped my name onto it as the original typing had faded somewhat. I also enhanced the colours to make it sort of new. The original is very faded.

The scan and printout is now in a frame on the spare bedroom windowsill, and the original is in an envelope in a box in the loft with other memorabilia.

I still have my (metal) badge too.

[Cowsham]

Mine.
Cycling Proficiency Certificate.jpg

Like it Michael F

I blanked out my full name!

Actually, that certificate was scanned some years ago, and I Photoshopped my name onto it as the original typing had faded somewhat. I also enhanced the colours to make it sort of new. The original is very faded.

The scan and printout is now in a frame on the spare bedroom windowsill, and the original is in an envelope in a box in the loft with other memorabilia.

I still have my (metal) badge too.

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I'll have to dig mine out

[Hellhound]

I would have taken mine around 75/76 at a guess.
If I got a certificate it will probably be in a box at my parents somewhere.

[axel_knutt]

Mine.
Cycling Proficiency Certificate.jpg

Mine got framed and put on the wall, which is where it stayed, pretty much unnoticed and forgotten until I was in my mid -teens. Then one day a mate noticed it and burst out laughing. It came down pretty quick after that.

[Wilhelmus]

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[Ugly]

Passed mine on 14th October 1958, fixed wheel and one brake, dropped bars and clips and straps on my 19'' E F Russ bike and I was just 12.

[[XAP]Bob]

This intrigues me. Why would anyone find it risible that his friend had taken the trouble to learn to ride a bicycle safely? I suspect I would have kept the certificate and binned the mate, but YMMV.

More likely the act of prominently displaying it that was considered risible.

[Wilhelmus]

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[Tim Holman]

Hey, Mick and all you others: my Cycling Proficiency Certificate is number 6962.3 and is dated 31.7.65.
I'd prove it by posting it on the forum but I don't know how...and I can cope with not knowing!
I was aged eleven at the time and it was in Nottingham.
I kept it safe all these years. Champion!
Tim

[rjb]

SWMBO has a metal badge having passed her test. I never did the test. She reminds me sometimes

[Tim Holman]

Cor, that's great! I lost mine,
Tim

[Mick F]

Still have mine, like I said. Nice enamelled metal.
Wear it on my overcoat along with my Veteran's badge. Medals too when at the Remembrance Day parade.
Still have my Prefect's badges from skool too, but I don't wear those!

[rjb]

SWMBO has a metal badge having passed her test. I never did the test. She reminds me sometimes

Back seat driver.

[NUKe]

Would it be good to make this mandatory for new riders?

No for a number of reasons
1. it would need some form of registration scheme and Policing which would make the cost prohibitive.
2, Bike ability is available to all primary school Children
3. Cost if born by the individual would reduce the number of people cyclin

[Cowsham]

SWMBO has a metal badge having passed her test. I never did the test. She reminds me sometimes
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Now that I see that I can remember getting one -- don't know if my ma kept it -- will be cycling down there today so will ask.