Cycling safely on the streets: defensive cycling in practice

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Cycling together
Cycling on the street with novice cyclists
Giving cycling lessons
Last updated:  03 June 2025

More and more people are choosing to use bicycles for their daily journeys. This is positive for health, the environment and mobility, but also carries risks. Many cycling accidents happen without another road user being involved. This page offers concrete tools to reduce the risk of accidents through defensive cycling.

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Cycling Buddies

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Pair participants who could use some extra practice even after the lesson series with a cycling friend, or cycling buddy. He or she gives those participants a boost.

Bike Buddies Appointment Card

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In a buddy collaboration, novice cyclist and volunteer record cycling trips themselves, for example via an appointment card. Use our template for this.

Cycling together

After the lesson series, build a buddy collaboration and create a community of novice cyclists who help each other. Because cycling together is fun.

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