Teaching adults to cycle: BBS Cubbon Park 13 July 2025

[Parag Patankar]

Bangalore Bicycling School, Cubbon Park Session, Sunday 13 Jul 2025

Sunny weather today, Band Stand had a classical Ghatam/Violin performance. A few newbies and more ongoing learners today. We will do a Cubbon Circular next sunday.

Trainers : Vinay, Parag, Aman,Junaid

Hello: Abhinav with Dad Krishnamurthi

Newbies :

Harish -The first learner to arrive and spent the session practicing scooting. While his dedication was clear, he will need to focus more on posture and maintaining balance to make smoother progress in the coming weeks.

Harshitha- The Norway based software engineer, star of the day! With focus and enthusiasm, managed to start pedaling confidently on their own by the end of the session.

Kripa- She did quite a few rounds on the scooting bike, was able to balance for a couple of seconds but still needs to practice and perfect scooting

Keshav- Harshitas brother, took a while to get his scooting right, then moved to pedaling. Was a bit exhausted by the end of the session. Great job to both of them for their commitment and teamwork!

Syeda- spent her time working on scooting and adjusting her posture. With a couple more focused sessions, she’s well on her way to achieving good balance and moving toward independent riding.

Ongoing Learners:

Goutham: Progressed to scooting well, and a bit of half pedaling today.

Manas- Progressed to pedaling today, riding well uphill and downhill.

Richa: Continued with her smiling determination to get scooting perfect.

Rusha: Continued with pedaling , is confidently going downhill and uphill and doing turns and zigzags.

Sushma: Rode comfortably eve on the tallest grey bike, even uphill, with good poise, and then did turning and zigzags.

Shriya: Came on her new bike,and rode all over the park !

Simran: Comfortable pedaling uphill and fixed the lurch today, and started with zigzags.

Siddharth - Focused on scooting to get his balance right and then moved to pedaling downhhill, needs some practice to ride uphill.

Shewtha: Practiced pedaling for a bit and then moved to zigzags and turns

Vinay, Parag, Aman,Junaid

The joy and motivation from today’s session reminded us all how every step forward—no matter how small—is worth celebrating. Looking forward to more growth and new milestones next weekend!