CYCLEDIVAS T H E T H R E E L E V E L S FREE

LEVEL 1 - THE NOVICE CAN:

✓ Carry out a simple bike check

✓ Get on & off the bike without

help

✓ Start off and pedal without help

✓ Stop without help

✓ Ride along without help

✓ Make the bike go where they want

✓ Use gears

✓ Stop quickly

✓ Swerve to avoid objects

✓ Look all around, including behind without wobbling

✓ Signal right and left without wobbling

✓ Look behind and signal at the same time

Level 1 training is conducted in a safe environment, usually in the school playground or somewhere off road like

a local public park.

This is the first of the three awards. If

your child is registered on a Bikeability course through school, they will receive the Red Level 1 Badge and Certificate.

The Bikeability Standards (Levels)

CHILDREN FROM THE AGE OF 8 YEARS+ ARE ELIGIBLE FOR BIKEABILITY PROVIDING THEY CAN ALREADY RIDE A BICYCLE

FREEDOM PLAYTIME BIKEABILITY BADGES

BIKEABIL ITY

LEVEL 2 - THE INTERMEDIATE CAN:

✓ Start an on-road journey

✓ Finish an on road journey

✓ Pass parked or slower moving vehicles

✓ Pass side roads

✓ Turn right into a major road and left into a minor road

✓ Make a U-turn

✓ Turn left into a major road and right into a minor road

✓ Take the lane when they need to

✓ Decide if a cycle lane will help their journey

Level 2 training takes place on quite

side roads.

Children who achieve the standard and are registered for Bikeability through school will receive the Orange Level 2

Badge and Certificate

LEVEL 3 - COMPETENT CYCLISTS CAN:

✓ Demonstrate their

understanding of how to use roundabouts

✓ Use junctions controlled by traffic lights

✓ Use multi-lane roads and turn off and into them

✓ Understand filtering and can

decide when to filter and when to wait

Level 3 training takes place usually on

a 1-2-1 basis along busy and complex routes.

Children who achieve the standard and

are registered for Bikeability through school will receive the Green Level 3 Badge and Certificate.

The Bikeability Standards (Levels)

LEVEL 3 - USE JUNCTIONS CONTROLLED BY TRAFFIC

LIGHTS

A TYPICAL LEVEL 1 TRAINING ENVIRONMENT

LEVEL 3 - 1-2-1 TUITION ALONG BUSY ROADS

TIME TO RELAX

The ages children can start each Level

The table below shows suggested age to cycle skill ratio.

SKILLS LEVEL 11111 22 33SKILLS

AGE (YEARS) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12+ MOTORISTS

Cycle and Equipment

Legal requirements for bicycles T T T+ T+ T+ T+ ☺ ☺ T

Cycle and Equipment

Cycle Inspection T T T+ T+ ☺ ☺ T

Cycle and Equipment

Optional safety fittings T T+ T+ ☺ TCycle and Equipment

Helmet Inspection T T T T+ T+ T+ ☺ ☺ T

Cycle and Equipment

Helmet Fitting T T T T+ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ T

Cycle and Equipment

Safety apparel T T T+ T+ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ T

Motor Skills

Basic Handling Skills T T T+ T+ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ T

Motor Skills

Starting off & Stopping T T T+ T+ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ T

Motor Skills

Signalling and looking behind T T ☺ ☺ TMotor Skills

Emergency Braking T T ☺ ☺ T

Motor Skills

Advance cycle skills T ☺ ☺ T

Road Rules

Basic Road Skills T T ☺ ☺ ☺

Road Rules

Signs and signals T T T+ T+ ☺ ☺ T+

Road Rules

Responsibilities as road users T T T ☺ ☺ T+

Road Rules Simulated (off road) riding T T T ☺ ☺ ☺Road Rules

On road practice (quiet roads) T ☺ ☺ T+

On Road

Cycling

On road assessment T ☺ ☺ T+On Road

Cycling Group cycling T T+ ☺ T+

Advanced

cycling

On road practice (busy roads) T T+

Advanced

cycling

On road assessment T T+Advanced

cycling Hazard recognition T T+ ☺ T+

Advanced

cycling

Hazard Avoidance T T+ ☺ T+

Advanced

cycling

Route Planning T T+ T+

Cycle

Advocacy

Cost benefits of cycling T T+ TCycle

AdvocacyCycling as a viable mode of travel T T+ T

Key = T - Training can start here T+ Extend beyond existing knowledge ☺ Should already be trained

Recommended training hours per Level

ENTRY LEVEL NON TRAFF IC/

TRAFF IC

ENVIRONMENT

S U M M A RY

OF OUTCOME

RECOMMENDED

TRAINING HOURS

Complete Beginner (not assessed)

Non-traffic Client can demonstrate that they can ride a bike without support

Assessment dependent on the skill of the client

Level 1 Beginner

Non-traffic Client can demonstrate full control of the bicycle

3 hours ( 3 x 1 hour sessions)

Level 2 Skills to ride in traffic situations

Traffic Client can demonstrate safe cycling manoeuvres in a variety of quieter traffic environments

8 hours 1 x 2 hour off road session

6 x 1 hour on-road sessions

Level 3 Skills to ride in advanced traffic situations

Traffic Client can demonstrate safe cycling manoeuvres in all traffic environments

Assessment dependent on the skill of the client. If more than one session required, monthly frequency recommended

Cycle Divas makes the following assumptions about the above:

The same outcomes for bike control and handling are expected from adults and children

Clients are not tested, but assessed and progress through to the next level only they have consistently demonstrated they have achieved the overall outcomes for each level.

Where Level 1 training is provided to children, Cycle Divas has made it explicitly clear to parents, legal guardians and teachers that the students have not been taught to ride on the road and that this is not the aim of the course.