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Being Cycle Aware

Join us for a half-day workshop focused on increasing road safety awareness for cyclists and other road users. Learn about cycling hazards, legal requirements, and how to ride safely. Suitable for all levels of cyclists.

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Being Cycle Aware

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  1. Being Cycle Aware a half-day workshop for <your audience> <Your location> <Your date>

  2. Workshop Purpose To bring together <target audience> and cyclists to make <target audience> more aware of road safety issues for bicycle users, and to make cyclists more aware of pressures that influence <target audience>

  3. Introduction • Welcome! • Introduction • Thank-you’s • Agenda

  4. Icebreaker • Person’s name • How much experience do they have of cycling – years, type of cycling etc • Something about them that no-one in their peer group here today already knows.

  5. Why cycle? Fitness/health Convenience (no parking problems, door to door) It’s fun! Low environmental impact Save money Social contact

  6. Cyclists and their needs All cyclists: Good surfaces, space to ride and considerate behaviour by other road users Recreational: Pleasant & scenic routes with low traffic volumes/speeds and few hazards Commuters: Confident: direct routes with minimal impediments. Less confident: similar routes to recreational riders Tourists: Pleasant and scenic routes linking areas of interest Children: Needs vary depending on age and experience Sporting:Good road shoulders, minimum impediments Utility: Needs vary depending on trip purpose, and age & experience of rider

  7. Cycling Hazards 1 Being passed too closely by another vehicle Car doors Cars parked in cycle lane Harassment by other road users

  8. Cycling Hazards 2 Turning vehicles Kerb Car turns across cyclist’s path

  9. Cycling Hazards 3.1 Difficult junctions Kerb Car turns across cyclist path

  10. Cycling Hazards 3.2 Kerb Cyclist in middle of carriageway, vehicle should follow bike through the intersection

  11. Cycling Hazards 5 Other hazards include: Reversing vehicles Being rear-ended Weather conditions Road surface Harassment by other road users

  12. Legal requirements Bicycle needs: Brakes Rear red reflector Pedal (or ankle) reflector Lights (at night) Cyclist needs: Helmet (Maybe) ankle reflectors

  13. Riding safely Taking the lane (primary position) Secondary position Ride defensively

  14. Ride briefing It’s a ride, not a race! Stay in your comfort zone Travel in single file Stay with your group Each group will be stopping periodically for discussion/observation

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