Being Cycle Awarea half-day workshop for <your audience>

<Your location> <Your date>

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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>

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Introduction

• Welcome!

• Introduction

• Thank-you’s

• Agenda

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Icebreaker

1. Person’s name

2. How much experience do they have of cycling – years, type of cycling etc

3. Something about them that no-one in their peer group here today already knows.

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Why cycle?

• Fitness/health• Convenience (no parking problems, door to

door)• It’s fun!• Low environmental impact• Save money• Social contact

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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

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Cycling Hazards 1

• Being passed too closely by another vehicle

• Car doors

• Cars parked in cycle lane

• Harassment by other road users

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Cycling Hazards 2

Turning vehicles

Kerb

Car turns across cyclist’s path

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Cycling Hazards 3.1

Difficult junctions

Kerb

Car turns across cyclist path

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Cycling Hazards 3.2

Kerb

Cyclist in middle of carriageway,

vehicle should follow bike through

the intersection

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Cycling Hazards 5

Other hazards include:• Reversing vehicles • Being rear-ended• Weather conditions • Road surface• Harassment by other road users

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Legal requirements

• Bicycle needs:• Brakes

• Rear red reflector

• Pedal (or ankle) reflector

• Lights (at night)

• Cyclist needs:• Helmet

• (Maybe) ankle reflectors

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Riding safely

• Taking the lane (primary position)

• Secondary position

• Ride defensively

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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