Re: Advice: pavement cycling/child
- From: "David Martin" <martin-family@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Jan 2006 09:09:28 -0800
Bob Downie wrote:
> >But what about my 6-year-old? Is it reasonable, or expected, for him
> >to ride on the road, even supervised? Should he ride on the pavement
> >(carefully), even though it's not allowed? If so, at what point does
> >acceptable pavement riding become unacceptable? Age 8? 10? 18?
> >
> >Actually, at the moment I have him ride on the pavement and I ride at
> >his speed on the road. On quieter roads I have him ride on the road to
> >get used to traffic, having to look and pay attention, and so on. He's
> >good at signals, but useless at looking behind at the moment!
It is a judgement call. My daughter (now 9) is allowed to ride on her
own on the pavement. She hasn't had as much practice as I would have
liked on the road yet (we live on a busy A road). My NYR is to get her
out and happy on the road so that she can ride safely on her own. At
present when we ride together we do use the road, and walk on the
pavement when it is deemed that her confidence in her abilities does
not meet that required for the road conditions.
Roads do seem much busier now than when I learned to ride in London
<cough> years ago. It is also fairly hilly which can be a bit
unnerving.
...d
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