Teaching adults how to cycle BBS Cubbon Park session Sunday 12 Oct 2025

[Ali Poonawala]

Bangalore Bicycling School, Cubbon Park Session, Sunday 12 Oct 2025

Another sunny day, but the morning chill helped. The crowds have returned. Bandstand had a vocal performance. A neerathon happened but did not affect our session.

Trainers : Parag, Vinay,Aman,Ali,Shriya, Junaid

Hello: Abhinav and Dad Krishnamurthy, Deepak + Deepak Darth Vedar, Ganesh, Suresh and ?

name lad who put drop bar to MTB !

Newbies :

Ashwini : Has expereince with a scooter, it was very easy for her to pick it up from there.

Deepika : First to turn up while we were fetching the cycles. The founder of a wellness startup, she had learnt in childhood and hence was able to pick up quickly and start riding.

Fatima : Fathima started with scouting and balancing. She tried to balance, got it a bit, but she's scared and needs more practice.

Jaya : A Bhumika worker, had come for a run and again, brushed up her latent skills

Kavya : Accompanied by Jaya, being partially sighted, rode on her own, found uphill ride challenging

Mehjabeen : Had again, learnt during childhood and gave it a go.

Nadia : Was passing by, with Fatima and Mehjabeen, Over worried about her weight causing problems with learning to cycle. Started with mounting and dismounting and s bit of scooting

Ongoing Learners:

Abhinav- Rode a bit and fiddled with his front brake that was not responding fast, but could not fix it.

Anuha- Continued her progress and improved her control while pedalling. Sat out last half due to giddiness, which settled on rest

Anson- Came with a rental bike, continued with pedaling today, the balance is good now.

Bharat- Worked on correcting the tendency to drop the left sholder which causes a lurch.

Sakshi : Second session, after a break.

Salma- Super enthusiastic as usual, rode a few rounds and parked herself on the side and kept busy by encouraging others !

Sandeep : After spending 5 months in Mumbai ( parents live there) and Delhi, was back more for a hello than to learn. He generously offered to help teach others too.

Sapna- Third session and did zig zagging and tried circle too. Great going !

Saana knows a little about cycling. She started with scooting and got some balance. She tried once, then left with her parent.

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

Shriya, Parag, Junaid, Vinay, Aman, Ali