Teaching adults how to cycle BBS Cubbon Park session 26 October 2025

[Ali Poonawala]

Bangalore Bicycling School, Cubbon Park Session, Sunday 26 Oct 2025

A blisteringly sunny and humid day. The park had the DY CM walk followed by public grievances address session pandal between teaching area and the Bandstand which, amazingly, had a music performance,unfettered by the function related clamour and officials buzzing about. Must say, the usual park activities, except car parking, went on without much interference. Congratulations to all concerned for this sensitivity 😍

Trainers : Parag, Vinay, Ali, Shriya

Hello: Ganesh (braving nose septum surgery just yesterday !)

Newbies :

Reena: Came late, with Shwetha, whose own sister, Sneha went missing !🥺 Having learnt a two wheeler previously, Reena was soon pedalling both down and upslope. Just needs to get safety issues, some peculiar to Bicycling only, sorted out

Ongoing Learners:

Anish- Practiced a few rounds and then helped other learners, the rental shop was closed today.

Anuha- Improved her control with pedalling and turning, and started zig zags . Practiced safe stopping.

Anwesha: Continued with scooting and half pedaling, trying to maintain her balance

Deepika - Continued with riding up and down, and started on zig zags. Also learnt basics of safe mounting and dismounting, rather late in the scheme of things, but hopefully will be able to retrofit. Uphill pedalling needs just practice.

Manya - Her second session and is persisting and getting comfortable scooting. She was pretty nonchalant about the blistering sun.. having been raised in Gangavati !

Manas- Came after along break, but after a round, was feeling tired and left early.

Mugil - Tearing downslope, like a lost missile looking for a target, with cycle twisting suddenly with each body lurch, was a sight worthy of cardiac arrest in Ali's aging heart ! Thankfully a magic wand from Above correctected the anomaly and now better braking should allow progression to pedalling.

Salma- Super enthusiastic as usual, rode a few rounds. Needs to keep doing basic stuff like safe mounting, and braking.

Shweta - Continued with scooting , and did a bit of half pedaling , should be ready to try pedaling next Sunday.

Shwetha Bhaskar- Turned up early and practiced riding by herself.

Surabhi- Continued with circles, trying to get a shorter turning radius without wobbling.

Tamoghno- Continued practicing the full session to get the balance right while scooting.

Vihaan - Came after a long break, and tyres deflated. With Vinays help in inflating the tyres, rode up and down till closing time.

Shashwath - came to the training area but didn’t approach us. Later, he said he wanted to learn cycling. After getting tips from Ali sir, he started scooting confidently and showed good balance.

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

Shriya, Parag, Vinay, Ali