Bike Skills

Bike Safety Skills

Bike Safety - Bigfoot Adventures Session

August 17, 2018 Room 7

Wow - what a lots of very useful information to help us be safe on the road!
Thank you Johnny and Sarah!

Sensible clothing for biking

• Hiviz (high visibility) or bright clothing so that you can be seen
• Carrying a backpack - use a hiviz backpack cover
• Helmet
• Well-fitted closed-in shoes - make sure your laces are tied and secured by

tucking into your shoes

• Baggy pants - tuck into your socks (skinny jeans can chaff)
• ‘Spring roll’ your jacket around your waist if you get too hot
• Shorts are ideal or a skirt

Bike Safety Check

Good check every month or two

Daily check before you ride every time

1. Brake checks: two working brakes
1. Push the bike forwards and apply front brake to check
2. Push the bike backwards and apply the back brake to check
2. Properly inflated tyres -
1. flat hand press on the tyre - if it goes down, you need to pump it up
2. Squeeze - if they are soft, you need to pump it up
3. Check that you wheel is attached securely
1. check the quick release lever (open on one side and closed on the other)
2. secure in line with the frame and the fork. If the wheel wobbles, it is too loose.

Legal requirements: to ride a bike on New Zealand roads

• Reflectors - red rear reflectors (rear chain stay or on the back of the seat)
• Nighttime riding - lights instead of reflectors; back light red); front light white Tyre - flashing makes them more visible

• Brakes - must have two working brakes to ride on the NZ roads (front - right and back - left) (ride with two fingers on the brake so that you have fast

reaction to braking)

Gears

Two different shifts

1. One for the front cogs (Left hand shifter - not used as often - middle one just right)
2. One for the back cogs (1-7 cogs); (Right hand shifter - use them all the time 5

E.g. 1-1 very steep hill

Golden road - you must be pedaling when you change gears - the chain moves when you are
pedaling. You can break the bike if you change gears without pedaling.

One click at a time (one gear at a time)

Pedal ready position

• Left foot on the ground and right foot in the air
• Opposite side of the chain
• Footpath side
• Off the road and the road is visible

Mounting the Bike

• Hands on the handles - on the brakes
• Tip the bike towards you and step over the bike
• RIght foot up high (you will be pushing off with your right foot)

Helmets

It is a legal requirement to wear a helmet when riding your bike on a New Zealand road

Head injuries can be permanent - we must protect our brain

Scooter helmets or other helmets should not be worn when riding a bike - wear a helmet
that is especially designed for biking

Labels inside the helmet will tell you if it is a bike is a helmet - it lets you know what your
helmet is made off.

Do not drop them on the floor or ground - that is the way MOST helmets are broken

Plastic coating is designed for sliding along the ground if we come off our bike

The styrofoam inner should be intact - no cracks (put pressure on the interior of the helmet
with your hands to check for cracks - if you see any cracks, you should buy a new one)

Cut the straps and throw it away - don’t be tempted to use a broken helmet

Checking to see if they fit well:

When we ride our bikes, it is very important to wear a helmet that fits correctly.

• Two fingers above our eyebrow - this is where our helmet should be positioned
• Y on the side of the ear - looping underneath the ears
• Tightened under your chin - lean forward to make sure your helmet is not ‘floppy’

Fwd: Bike Safety - Bigfoot Adventures

Cross Country Run

Cross Country Run

Large Art for Nature

Large Art for Nature

Room 7 has been learning about patterns and Art. So we had to colour in a piece of paper with pastels. We had lots of fun colouring them in. Every piece is a piece of puzzle so that we made amazing The turtle and The Lion. 

Firstly Mrs Swan asked us if we wanted the lion or the turtle then she gave us a paper to colour, but we weren't allowed to have the same colour or more in a row.  Some people got more than one piece at a time, because each piece they received only has very small amounts of colouring to do. In conclusion, we succeeded and we all loved it. Mrs Swan was incredibly happy.

By Rajeev Silva

Thread Lightly Caravan

The Tread Lightly Caravan is a mobile exhibition/classroom established by the Urban Ecoliving Charitable Trust to inspire Room 7 to live more sustainably.

Using interactive displays, the Caravan shows visitors how everyday choices such as what we buy, how we travel, what we eat, how we use energy in our homes and how we manage waste, can impact the natural environment. The key message to visitors is, 'Your choices have environmental consequences'. 

The key communication messages are:

1. Our actions and choices have an effect on our environment.
2. If we continue to use resources (water, materials, energy) as we do now, we will run out.
3. Small changes in the way we live will help save resources, prevent pollution and protect our plants, animals and their habitats.

The Tread Lightly Caravan teaches students to communicate and champion sustainability to their families and communities in order to educate them and encourage better practice.  

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