Cycling under a limbo bar (or two) is fun and helps with bike control skills and can encourage co-operation.
Buy 3 bamboo canes about 9ft long (around £1 each) from Garden/DIY centres.
Cut in half. Cut a short length off four ‘uprights’ – these will become the ledges for the horizontal poles to sit on.
Fix in place with rubber bands. (Recycle the ones the posties discard!)
Then devise a system for keeping the verticals vertical. (Something heavy with a hole in.)
OR
Don’t bother – get people to hold the poles. When it’s windy the horizontals will blow off so they need to be held anyway!
They shouldn’t be fixed to the uprights as they will need to come off easily when someone’s head, shoulders or hoodie hits them!
The ‘pegs’ can be slid up or down the poles quite easily. A ‘mountain bike’ with 20″ wheels is the optimum for most primary pupils – better to be too small than too big.
Get a group of children. Have four hold the poles and the rest test their skills, then swap. These children are from Lismore Primary School.
This limbo set was made by Chris and Sam of ChangingPace and belongs to the Bingham Bicycle Club.
Filed under: Bicycle Fun Day, Bingham, ChangingPace, CyclingEdinburgh, Edinburgh, Lismore, Sustrans
