Cycle Training

Wimbledon Guardian - 2nd March 2000

Letters: Small price to pay for cycling safely

I have been reading with interest the recent correspondence published in your newspaper regarding cyclists. As a motorist and a cyclist I have witnessed foolish dangerous and inconsiderate acts by both cyclists and motorists.
However the purpose of this letter is to draw all cyclists' attention to an organisation called Cycle Training.
I discovered it recently by responding to a small advertisement in your paper concerning cycling tuition.
I have cycled in London for the majority of my life and yet the last cycling tuition I took was 28 years ago when I took my cycling proficiency badge as a child.
Road conditions have changed dramatically since then and, like driving, procedures and safe practices change with time also, to reflect the increase in vehicular traffic and new style road junctions.
Last Saturday, I received a one-hour lesson from Cycle Training conducted on a one-to-one basis.
I would not only recommend the tuition but would urge all other London cyclists to register for an updating lesson, which are currently being subsidised. The tutor was very professional, reliable, had planned the lesson in advance and instructed me on manoeuvres that I personally have found awkward and/or difficult.
Not only was the lesson useful and a small price to pay for future safety, I also really enjoyed it.

Christine Short, Mitcham