Cycling Proficiency Certificate

[Mick F]

Does anyone have an older one?




Mick F. Cornwall

[Terry T]

Yep! 1963, but my mum has it in her loft.

[Si]

No, when they did cycling Proficiency at my school i bunked off to, er, go out on my bike. Couldn't be buttocked with weaving in and out of cones in the playground when there was the whole wide world out there to cycle in

[thirdcrank]

Mine is dated 1959, but it would take some finding. (I was presented with another as a joke at a leaving do in 1983, when I was 42 but that's another story.)

[reohn2]

I tried three times to get mine and failed every time,can't remember what on, I remember doing 150miles a week all through secondry school though so i don't know if that counts.

[Dai]

I remember mine. It was the day somebody scratched my newly resprayed (courtesy of the RAF) blue bike frame. I seem to remember covering the scratch with a transfer of Fireball XL5.

[axel_knutt]

Dunno whether I've still got mine, but I still squirm with embarrassment when I think about how long it spent framed and hung on the wall!!

[Cyril Haearn]

I got mine in 1973 but could not produce it if asked, sorry constable
Finished at lunchtime, then cycled 95 km and 140 the day after

Sorry to report that I passed my driving test many years later first time with no points deducted for failing to make progress

[blackbike]

My home town in suburban Manchester had a cycle rally for schoolchildren which involved a ride around the area during which you were marked for riding skills and adherence to the highway code.

A splendid metal badge was awarded to people who passed for the first time and a bar was awarded for each subsequent pass.

Many people at my schools wore their cycle rally badges and bars on their school blazers.

The rally ended in the late 70s.

My old primary school now has a tiny bike shed which could hold about 10 bikes. There are rarely more than two in it. The old, large bike shed is now used as parking for two cars, and one of the two playgrounds is used as a car park too.

As well as the old big bike shed the two playgrounds used to be lined with children's bikes. Now there are none.

[mercalia]

can you still get them?

[Si]

No, but you can get Bikeability certificates.

[Mick F]

can you still get them?

Copy mine, then use Photoshop to put your name on it.

[gaz]

can you still get them?

No, ...

Yes, Ebay .

[rjb]

SWMBO has the badge, and is the stoker on the tandem, but i have the legs.

[Bez]

1985 on mine. I am the yoofs round here, clearly.