Newby with nerves

[stella2]

Sounds like your doing fantastically well I can only dream of the day that can signal and look behind me

Where are you up to with the bike ability programme? I have had the first taster session and I'm now just practicing (which is what I need to do) until the next session (they just do it on the last Saturday of the month).

Anyway keep on keeping on

[hebe]

Thank you! :wave: to another UK beginner!

I'm taking 1:1 lessons with one of the local Bikeability schools instructors. She is in her 60s and brilliant. I've done Bikeability 1 and am working through 2 at the moment, I think we are doing right turns tomorrow. I have just spent the afternoon riding diagonally across the garden trying to get the hang of looking back then signalling without wobbling or going off course. The roads round here are pretty quiet but are full of parked cars this holiday weekend.

[stella2]

Waves back I stick to the park. Can't consider cars, at least at this stage. Had a good day today. I enjoyed it properly for the first time, peddalled further and lots of my stops weren't so 'suicidal'

[hebe]

I put my daughter into creche this morning and did 45minutes cycling round my local estate and little park with only 2 or 3 stops. I am very proud of myself and really looking forward to my lesson tomorrow. I was so excited about it that I phoned my teacher to tell her what I'd done she is tremendously patient with my slowness after all.

[stella2]

That's brilliant!

I tell myself that slow is fine. After all, we have waited this long to ride and we're doing it. There is no reason to rush the process of improving.

[Roadtrip]

Sounds like your doing great. My instructor has been really great with me and I honestly don't think I could have gotten started without him. He told me a little story about his start in competitive swimming where his coach told him that "DQ" really means don't quit... keep pushing... improving... learning.

Shannon

[hebe]

I was remembering DQ this morning Shannon, when I screwed up my first attempt at a right turn off a major road (we ride on the left here so right turns are the harder ones). Anyway, I have now finished Bikeability 2 so am officially able to ride on quiet roads on my own I still need to do a lot of practice to get on top of signalling wobbles, but I am hugely proud of myself and very grateful for my lovely instructor.