Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling Skills - A statistical investigation

Question: Are Karoro School senior students safe cyclists on the roads?

  

Recently Room One students participated in a safe cycling skills programme facilitated by the
New Zealand    Police.

Students learned about the correct way to wear  their helmet

We learned  how to tighten our helmets  and we had to do the two finger check.
Most of us had to tighten the strap on our hemelt .

We also had to do the N check. What is the N check? The N check is when you have to check the
front to the back of the bike. Must to have a red and white reflector on your bike if you don't have these
you can get a  150 dollar fine.

And the road rules. What were the road rules?   The were look behind you you had to be before you
stop  and alway sangail stop with your left hand. When you turn look behind ,
singail look behind again and turn. And you have to be 1 metre from the kerb.

The second session involved a skills based session on the court. Students had to
practise the hand signals, practise how to stop at a stop sign.
And we practised our balance on our bikes.

                      

 

Following the court session students participated in a road circuit skills session.
There were people placed around the circuit and marks were given for using the following skills:

• Approx 1 metre from kerb
• Checking parked cars
• Scanning for hazards
• Look behind before hand signals
• Correct hand signal
• Look behind after hand

      

My marks were:

Approx 1 metre from kerb	Scanning for hazards	Checking parked cars	Look behind before hand signals	Correct hand signal	Look behind after hand signals	% Average Across Skills
2/5	0/2	1/4	1/4	0/6	3/6	24

I did  this because I was too  far out on the road.

One of the collated graphs showed these results.

My recommendation is that I need to check for parked car and get better at using hand signals.

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This shows my scores  and I managed to get 3 out of 6 in Look behind after hand signals.  
My recommendation is that I need to check for parked cars.
I thought safe cycling was boring because it looks silly to use your hand signals.