Maintenance Courses
Learn to fix your own bike!
Our popular maintenance courses are held throughout the year in our Central London training centre
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Our Principles
These are the principles our training is based on:
Cycling Promotion
We promote cycling as a form of transport. We treat road safety training as a way of promoting cycling. We train to increase people's skills and confidence, not to impose restrictions. We are opposed to compulsory testing for cyclists.
Realistic Training
Our road training takes place on real roads in real conditions. When people want to make specific journeys we take them through those journeys.
Inclusiveness
Cycling is for everyone and, whatever their level of ability or mobility, we work with people to improve their enjoyment of cycling. Cycling is an effective form of transport for all ages. We teach both adults and children. We encourage parents to join in the training of their children and to cycle themselves. We demonstrate to parents that cycling safely on road is perfectly possible for their children.
Assertive Cycling
Assertive road positioning and behaviour are the key to safe cycling. We teach people to use as much road space as they need to travel safely and effectively. We do not believe that cycle lanes are a requirement for safe cycling.
Simplicity
To cycle all you need is a bike. We help and advise people who want to improve their cycling equipment but we recognise that overstating the importance of the many accessories available can put people off. You do not need special clothes to cycle. We neither promote nor discourage the use of personal protective equipment for cyclists and we endorse the policy of the European Cyclists Federation that parents should be allowed to make an informed choice as to whether or not their child wears a helmet.
Sustainability
In the future we anticipate that many more people will cycle, there will be more public acceptance of cycling and conditions for cyclists will improve. The ideas and practices we teach are sustainable and lead towards such a society.
Co-operation
We are a not-for-profit workers co-operative committed to the values of self-help, responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity.