This spring, Brussels cycling organisations are inviting 250 car drivers to try a bicycle for two weeks and to discover how pleasurable and easy it is to ride a bike every day. We want to break down any preconceived ideas people may have about riding in traffic on a bike and so to enhance their quality of life.
Each cyclist applicant (or ‘biker’) will therefore be given training to ride safely in traffic, and will be given personal coaching (with a ‘coach’).
Are you a daily cyclist? Would you like to offer support to a beginner cyclist? This is a great opportunity for you to show beginner cyclists the world of active mobility!
Come and join the pool of coaches that is now being set up. After the closing of registration (31 March) you will be linked up where possible with a beginner cyclist who takes more or less the same route as you to go to work.
As a coach, you will be asked to:
- accompany your applicant in the morning and evening on their first trips from home to the workplace for three days, starting 2 May 2011;
- make yourself available on 30/04 or 01/05 from 12.00 to 14.00 to meet your biker;
- to participate in a mandatory training course to enable you to offer good ‘coaching’ to your applicant and you feel more comfortable about doing this;
- to be an experienced daily bicycle user;
- behave impeccably when you act as a coach to your ‘biker’.
You will be given an allowance of 120.- EUR (which you can of course decline an donate to a charity). During the training course, you will be given a ‘Guide to the perfect coach’ brochure. And where possible, the home to workplace journey of the biker that you will be allocated in late April will be close to the one that you take yourself.
The registration form in NOW available.
Please also tell your friends, family, colleagues and cycling buddies about this scheme. That way we can reach as many coach applicants as possible – and help to clean up the air around Brussels!
For registration and more information, go here:
http://www.newbikeexperience.typiserveur.be/en/supervise-a-biker
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