Road Safety
Cycling Levels 1,2 & 3
Level 1 is an assessment of your child’s basic cycling skills and is delivered on the playground (trainees will not be taught). Trainees will only graduate on to Level 2 if they able to:
Level 1 techniques and skills
- Getting on and off
- Starting off and stopping
- Staying upright without wobbling
- Pedalling
- Steering and maintaining forward progress
- Cycling one handed/signalling
- Looking behind
- Use of gears
By completing Level 1, you have shown you have the skills to ride where there are no cars and that you are ready to start your on road training.
Level 2 is where you start with real traffic, but sticking to quiet roads.
By completing Level 2 you can show you have the skills to make a trip safely on to quiet roads and cycle lanes, perhaps to school.
Level 2 techniques and skills
- Theory of on road cycling
- Getting on and off the bicycle and starting off
- Stopping
- Use of gears
- Cycling one handed/signalling
- Looking behind
- Turning right, left and overtaking parked vehicles on a variety of quiet roads
- Using cycling facilities
Level 3 is where you can move up to busy roads and advanced road features.
It's like driving or motorbike lessons and once you have done it you should be able to bike most places safely, certainly after some practice. Normally you will do this once you have started secondary school.
Level 3 techniques and skills
- On road theory as level 2 with additional theory as required to support the more advanced road work being undertaken
- The cycle as a vehicle
- Positioning and observation
- Level 1 & 2 skills
- Busier roads
- Complex turns, roads and junctions
- Roundabouts
- Signal controlled junctions
- Filtering
- Using cycling facilities
- Different types of cycle and their purpose
- Keeping a bicycle roadworthy
- Clothing for cycling
- Relevant accessories
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