Back on your bike | The Examiner | October 16, 2023
Bicycle Network bring their back on your bike program to Inveresk Launceston for seniors week. Video Rod Thompson
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00:00 Writing is so good for our health and wellbeing, for our social wellbeing.
00:09 It's also a great way to tread lightly.
00:11 There's so many benefits and it's so important to keep learning at all stages of life, flexing
00:16 both your body muscles and your brain muscles.
00:19 And for us, we're excited that getting people together, so we want that connectedness in
00:24 particularly for some people who may not have that in their day to day life.
00:27 So Seniors Week is a great chance to go out and try new things and meet new people and
00:32 then maybe keep that process going and making some new connections in their community.
00:37 Yeah, lots of people are lapsed riders.
00:39 They might not have been on since they were kids, which is often the case.
00:43 People stop riding as adults.
00:45 And lots of people are straight beginners.
00:49 They never learn to do it as kids, especially if their parents thought it was too dangerous.
00:54 So that's what our sessions, our Back on Your Bike sessions are about, educating everyone
01:00 on how to ride safely and be in control and comfortable on the bike in the riding style
01:07 that suits them.
01:08 Whether they just want to cruise around on a flat basketball court, if they want to head
01:12 up to the shared trail and the levee bank there, or if they want to use it for transport,
01:17 for riding to work or for shopping.
01:19 These are all things that we cover to help people be confident and comfortable and ride
01:24 more.
01:25 So I'm on a bike.
01:26 I'm still not terribly sure.
01:27 So next time she has one of these glasses, I'll try a two-wheeler and see how I go.
01:34 I think I can manage this, mind over matter, with the balance thing.
01:38 It's just purely getting the mind into gear.
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