Bikeability and balance bike training
Build a skill for life with our cycle training programmes
Expert instructors deliver quality training to create safe, skilled and confident cyclists.
See our latest Bikeability impact
Discover the difference Bikeability is making for children and schools across Erdington and Sutton Coldfield in our Bikeability Impact Report 2025/26.
From improving heart health, boosting fitness and relieving stress to enhancing navigational skills and helping the planet, there are so many benefits of bike riding. But we know cycling doesn’t come without challenge and risk.
Our Bikeability programmes develop cycling skills and confidence in children from a young age, helping them to stay safe and develop a lifelong passion for cycling.
Balance Bike Training
Give children the skills to cycle without ever needing stabilisers.
Our Balance Bike Training develops the confidence, spatial awareness and dynamic balance skills children need to become skilled cyclists.
- Age: KS1
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 10 pupils
- Length of course: One 45-minute session per group delivered over 4 days
- Typical timings: 9am - 9.45am
- Equipment: We provide all equipment, including bikes, helmets and learning resources.
Learn to Ride
Learn to ride a bike safely and confidently with qualified instructors.
Bikeability Learn to Ride sessions are designed to help children develop the skills and confidence they need to ride a bike independently. Children learn the fundamentals of balance, pedalling, steering, speed control, and road safety from the playground.
- Age: Year 3 upwards
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 6 pupils
- Length of course: 1.5 hour sessions
- Typical timings: 9am-10.30am / 10.30-12pm / 1pm-2.30pm
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for free.
Bikeability Level 1
Children’s route to bike control and mastery.
Bikeability Level 1 typically takes place in your school’s playground away from the road and traffic. Children learn to carry out a simple safety check, get on and off the bike without help, control the bike without wobbling, and master quick and effective braking.
- Age: Year 3 upwards
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 12 pupils
- Length of course: 2-hour session
- Typical timings: 9am-11am / 1pm-3pm
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for free.
Bikeability Level 1 & 2
From bike control to confident road cycling.
Bikeability Level 1 builds essential cycle-handling skills in a safe, traffic-free environment. These foundations prepare pupils for Level 2, where they take to local roads with expert instructors and learn to navigate traffic and everyday road situations safely and confidently.
- Age: Year 5 upwards
- Number of pupils: Maximum group of 12 pupils
- Length of course: 2-hour session
- Typical timings: 9-10am (Level 1) 10am-12pm (L2) & 12:30pm-3pm (L2)
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for free.
Bikeability Level 3
Children’s route to confident, independent cycling.
Bikeability Level 3 is designed for riders aged 11+ who have completed the previous Bikeability levels and are ready to build the advanced skills needed for busier, more complex roads. Riders learn how to navigate challenging junctions, choose the safest road position, cycle alongside others and respond confidently to changing traffic situations.
- Age: 11+
- Number of pupils: Group of 6 pupils, per 2 instructors
- Length of course: 2-hours per group
- Typical timings: 9am-11am / 1pm-2pm
- Equipment: Children are encouraged to use their own bikes and safety equipment. Bikes and helmets are available to hire for free.
What's the cost?
Your school has options when it comes to funding balance bike training and Bikeability.
Options include various school sport partnerships, Youth Sport Trust, Active Travel England and local city councils.
Bikeability in Birmingham
We deliver Bikeability to schools within Sutton Coldfield and Erdington constituencies for free! Funded by Birmingham City Council.
What we deliver
Training
Balance Bike
Learn to Ride
Bikeability 1 & 2
Bikeability Level 3
Equipment
Bikes and helmets are supplied at no charge
Holidays
Bikeability in Sutton Coldfield
Ask our team for more details
If your school is in the Sutton Coldfield or Erdington area, please get in touch with us about your Bikeability sessions.
Bikeability impact 2025/26
2,677
pupils trained
49
schools reached
11,560+
hours spent cycling
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