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Originally Posted by Prufrock
Roadcraft is important for all road users, when I was a schoolboy we were not allowed to cycle to school unless we had the red and green badge (Cycling Proficiency Test).
Of course in the golden age of cycling (1930s-1950s) there were few cars and hence no school run lunatics to spoil our ride in :-)
In those days we didn't need an exam, our Dad's knew about bikes and this knowledge was passed on...a recent piece of research by the CTC revealed that today's Dad cannot even mend a puncture - something we took for granted.
Happy days.
J.
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It does depend on how you define "mend a puncture" - if focusing on cars, what with on a car the modern vehicles practical choice of tyre gunk? Only fixing holes upto 5 mm big and some amount of stupid steps?