Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outdoors. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Never Learnt How To Ride A Bike? Here's How Adults Are Taught

Believe it or not, not everyone knows how to ride a bike due to lack of interest as a child, old fashioned parents that felt respectable girls shouldn’t, or because their family couldn't afford more than one set of shiny, but expensive wheels. So, for those of you that never got to grips with bicycle bells, gear changes, tyre pressures, and road signals how difficult is it to learn as a grown adult? Not very as you’ve got far more hand, eye coordination and ability to balance.

Learning as an adult involves the same procedures as what children are taught except because you’re a grown up, you should grasp certain concepts much quicker than if you were a kid. Discovered a latent love of cycling? It may be worth you taking a bike ability course that’ll teach you road safety, bicycle control and maintenance, which bike to use on what terrain and how to communicate with other cyclists. There are usually three levels to the certificate, beginners, intermediate, and advanced with each level teaching students more in-depth cycling techniques such as approaching road junctions, using hand signals and also what to do in an emergency.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Stalking The Kids At The Campsite



     I must admit, I am such a protective mom at times. I can not help but get worried each time I am not near my kiddo. Yeah he is no longer such a baby but am sure moms will agree with me when I say no matter how huge our kids get they still remain little ones in our eyes. Imagine my anxiety when my younger son went for a three day camping!