Bike skills for Hastings kids

Through iWay we’re doing everything we can to get Hastings kids on their bikes and out there on our streets riding safely.

One thing we quickly noticed was there just wasn’t anywhere that schools in Hastings (or even NZ for that matter), could go to get a consistent standard of bike skills training.

That’s where we came up with a cunning plan. So we (the iWay team at Hastings District Council) teamed up with the guys at BikeNZ to change the world one bike rider at a time…well in Hastings at least.

So we started the Learn to Ride programme which gives kids a whole bunch of sweet cycle skills. You know the drill, how to start, how to stop, balancing, turning corners and maybe even popping the odd jump.

Learn to Ride is going to be training over 500 Year 6 primary school kids in Hastings….that’s a really good start.

The whole reason we are doing this is we want to see more kids on bikes and we know this training will keep them safe and help them be more confident.

But our plan doesn’t stop there, in Hastings we want to be Aotearoa’s role-model for cycling and we reckon this is a really big step in developing a programme that will work right round the country.

It makes sense that it’s all starting here; as everyone knows that Hawke’s Bay is already the Cycling Capital of NZ!