1. Being Cycle Aware a half-day workshop for <your audience>
<Your location> <Your date>

2. Workshop purpose
The purpose of the workshop is 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>

3. Introduction
Welcome!
Introduction
Thank-you’s
Agenda

4. Icebreaker
Each member of <Target audience> should pair up with a cyclist, and in about 5 minutes, they will be asked to introduce each other. The introduction should include the following information:
(Written on flip chart)
Person’s name
How much experience do they have of cycling – years, type of cycling etc
Something about them that no-one in their peer group here today already knows.

5. Why cycle? Why ride? Fitness/health
Convenience (no parking problems, door to door)
Fun!
Low environmental impact
Save money
Human interaction

6. Cyclists need…
Good surfaces, space to ride and considerate behaviour by other road users

7. Recreational cyclists need…
Pleasant & scenic routes with low traffic volumes/speeds and few hazards

8. Commuters need… Confident: direct routes with minimal impediments.
Less confident: similar routes to recreational riders

9. Tourists need…
Pleasant and scenic routes linking areas of interest

10. Children’s needs vary…
Needs vary depending on age and experience

11. Sporting cyclists need…
Good road shoulders, minimum impediments

12. Utility cyclists need…
Needs vary depending on trip purpose, and age & experience of rider

13. Cycling hazards

14. Being passed too close What is a safe passing distance for cyclists?
Note that this is situation dependent – child needs more space than adult, higher speeds require more space than slower etc.

15. Being “doored”
This can be drivers or passengers.

16. Car parked in cycle lane

17. Harassment by other road users

18. Turning vehicles
See next slide.

19. Turning vehicles
Turning vehicles
Kerb
Car turns across cyclist’s path

20. Difficult junctions

21. Difficult junctions Kerb Car turns across cyclist path
Junctions like this are difficult for cyclists to manage safely.

22. Difficult junctions Kerb Cyclist in middle of carriageway,
vehicle should follow bike through
the intersection
Taking the lane makes it easier for cyclist to negotiate through.

23. Other hazards
Reversing vehicles (especially from driveways, and especially dangerous to children)
Being rear-ended
Weather conditions (gusts of wind can affect cyclists, who are sometimes classified as “high sided vehicles”)
The surface of the road is much more apparent to a cyclist than drivers of motorised vehicles. The cyclist may need to avoid pot-holes, gratings, raised access covers etc, which the driver does not even notice.

24. Cycle safety requirements
What does a bike need, what do you need?
Legal requirements: working brakes, rear red reflector, pedal reflector (or ankle reflectors). At night you also need working lights (rear may be blinking).
Cyclist needs a helmet (maybe ankle relectors).
A bicycle is a vehicle, and is subject to same laws as every other vehicle. One requirement of all vehicles is that they stay left as far is practicable. What does this mean in practice for cyclists?

25. Take the lane
How to be safe when cycling – road position (“taking the lane”), other considerations.

26. Ride briefing It’s a ride, not a race!
Don’t go further outside your comfort zone than you want to
Travel in single file - this will give you a better feel of the “real” road conditions
Travel with your group. If it gets split by red lights etc, those ahead must wait for the others to catch up
Each group will be stopping periodically for discussion/observation

27. <Map of your route 1>

28. <Map of your route 2>