Cycling for children

Children love bikes and they are eager to ride them. Cycling helps kids grow up fit and healthy, and it introduces them to the wider world. On their bikes children learn about the areas where they live, they meet friends, they go places.

Life Cycle UK runs all sorts of bike-related activities that build on children's natural enthusiasm for cycling while helping them to learn essential skills. We are experts in cycle training and run courses in the Bristol and Bath areas in selected primary schools.  We also run courses for 8 to 11-year-olds during the school holidays. Click here to see the dates and times of the courses.

Our training meets the Government-approved standard called Bikeability.  This is a new and much-improved version of the classic Cycling Proficiency Test.  Life Cycle helped create it!  Click here to download a copy of the National Standard.  Click here to visit the Bikeability website.
 
You can commission us to run a course at any time and in any place (although the further away from Bristol you are, the more expensive it will be).  All we need is a minimum of two children (with bikes!) in the same age-bracket.  Before each course we need to receive a signed consent form for each child and you would need to ensure that their bikes are roadworthy.  A bike shop will do this for you, or, if you have the skills, you can do it yourself using our bicycle safety checklist.

Click these links to download the syllabus for 8-11 year olds,  the consent form that parents need to sign and cycle safety checklist.  If you would like to arrange some training please contact us.