In the Netherlands almost all children learned how to ride a bicycle at an early age in the past. They received their first bicycle, received traffic education in primary schools and obtained their traffic safety diploma. When they entered secondary education, cycling was fun and useful: they had their own transportation! Cycling had become a matter of course. Maybe, Fietsersbond wonders, this is the reason so little attention is paid to cycling in secondary education.
Fietsersbond observes that at present matters have changed. The majority of children still learn to cycle the old-fashioned way, but there are also children for whom this is no longer part of their education or who do not cycle because it is not cool or because their parents feel it is too dangerous.
Fietsersbond feels not every effort is made to make cycling even more fun, more useful and particularly safer, and to entice more children to cycle. Therefore it has published this brochure with various themes, tips and good examples to pay more attention to cycling in secondary education. This brochure is aimed at teachers, general staff and management of secondary schools, traffic education teachers and education advisory services, but also towns dedicated to helping their youth getting along safely.