Merseytravel’s TravelWise has teamed up with Liverpool NHS Primary Care Trust for the 2020 Decade of Health and Wellbeing, offering Merseyside residents free cycle skills sessions and bike maintenance courses.
Whether you’re looking to learn to ride a bike for the first time, or improve your confidence and on-road skills, each ‘freewheeling’ course is based on the 3 levels of the national standard Bikeability training, ideal for all abilities from Level 1 - learning the basics like staying upright, signalling, looking behind and using your gears, progressing to Level 2 - turning right and left at junctions into quiet roads and overtaking parked cars etc. Level 3 offers more advanced skills and manoeuvres for cycling on busier roads. If you can't ride a bike or haven't ridden for many years, then don’t worry - there is also a special ‘learn to ride’ session, which will get you ready for the Level 1 course.
If you want to get to know more about your bike, then the free bite size maintenance courses are perfect. Pick and choose from a number of themed sessions to help you gain specific knowledge about safety checks and cleaning, fixing a puncture, brakes and gears - just choose one or take part in them all!
All sessions are based at a fully equipped Merseyside training centre and are available during the daytime, early evenings and at weekends. All training and courses are delivered by fully accredited Bikeright! Instructors.
For more information and to book online, visit http://www.LetsTravelWise.org or call the Merseyside Training Centre on 0151 482 5700.