On Tuesday 12th February these wonderful people came to our school to help teach us about safety on bikes. Thank you to all who helped.
Here is Hannah Veitch's report on Bike Wise:
I
never knew that I could have been biking illegally until it had my lesson at
bike wise. I learnt that biking on the footpath is actually illegal and you
have to have two brakes that work on your bike when you are biking on the road.
If you are biking at night time you have to have pedal lights or lights on your
wheels or lights on your brakes plus a high vis, so people can see on the road
when it is dark.
They split us into two groups and two paths in each group
using cones. What we were aiming to do was to bike in a straight line so we can
see what we are doing and where we are going. To do this with our bikes we did
something called “ the scoot” which is where you have your pedals at 6 o’clock
and 12 o’clock with both hands on the handle bars and left foot on the left
pedal, and with the right leg you scoot (push) and look forward. As we got the
hang of scooting we added gliding on our last push of our scoot. All of us kids
had accomplished that and started practicing using our back brake. We pedaled
really fast and then slammed on our brakes and saw how long it took us to stop.
Soon we started using both brakes, the same thing but with both brakes. I pedaled really fast stood up on my pedals and I had all my weight forward
and... my back tyre went up and I went forward and I landed on the ground. It
didn’t hurt and everyone was laughing including me. It was because I had all of
my weight forward so it tipped over forward. After the biking activities we did
some biking games and it all ended well.
You can order these photos from the Gisborne Herald webpage. Paul Rickard is the photographer.
