Teaching adults how to cycle BBS Cubbon Park session 40th November 2025

[Ali Poonawala]

Bangalore Bicycling School, Cubbon Park Session, Sunday 30 Nov 2025

A cloudy and cold, drizzly day, and obstructions due to Flower show, but the BBS session went on with gusto at the secondary location near the high court gate. We had a new trainer Arvind, and also the super enthusiastic teachers from BBMP Vijaynagar school who were training for the Pedalshale program at their school from next week.

Trainers : Parag , Ali, Vinay, Ganesh, Aravind, Surabhi

Hello: Tejatha Ma'am from DULT, and her husband Janardhan, who cheerfully took the session pictures. Surabhi's supportive husband Pranav, who also doubled up as the session close photographer. Dr Girish, an orthopedician who was out for a walk at Cubbon park. Chandrashekhar sir and his wife Shanthalakshmi ma'am, as we were leaving the park.

Newbies :

8 Pedalshale teachers from VIjayanagar school-Kusuma, Madhubala, Pushpa, Sowmya, Sreedevi, Surekha, Tejaswini, Uma

They were very interested and attentive. Only one had not done cycling in childhood, so the session was mainly about knowing each other and getting into nuances of safe Cycling. Aravind newbie ,trainer got into the act very quickly and especially due to his explanation in easy kannada made it all go very smoothly.

Vivekanand - Enthusiastic newbie, star of the day, went from static balancing to scooting with confidence.

Ongoing Learners:

Anjali : This little girl came with a small cycle and learnt scooting and bit of pedaling.

Alex : Continued to work on fixing the the lurch.

Dayansh : As for the last weekend, came with dad and a bike, Now is into pedalling

Nadia - began pedaling with fear and found it hard at first. After a few tries, she got better and pedaled slowly downhill. She went uphill using half-pedal. She had a small lurch uphill and needs to fix this in the next class.

Sairah- Continued with fixing the lurch, which is prominent when struggling uphill, downhill is fine now.

Savitha- Focused on scooting in her second class, and also did some half pedaling.

Sharon : This surgeon student continued her scooting practice, being tall, was finding it a challange to do it on pedalled bikes

Surabhi : She worked on her new role of trainer and helped Tanay continue with scooting and correcting his lurch.

Tanay : Both mom and dad accompanying, continued with scooting and bit of half pedaling. He was more relaxed as compared to his first session, and continued to put efforts in scooting with enthusiasm. He still finds it challenging to put both the feet up for more than a few seconds, but kept up with his practice.

Tamoghno - Continued with pedaling, and fixing the lurch caused by excessive shoulder movement.

**Keep pedaling and see you next weekend! 🚴‍♂️🌿**

Parag, Ali, Ganesh, Vinay, Aravind, Surabhi