Starting your own cycling school

Starting up your own cycling school is more than just planning a few lessons. It requires preparation, cooperation and a vision.

This page will help you get started: whether you work at a municipality, a community organisation or a school - this checklist will give you a clear overview of all the building blocks for a successful start-up.

Checklist Start-up

Checklist

Ask yourself the right questions before you really get into it.

Action plan

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To keep your preparation and planning on track, and make sure you don't overlook anything, you can use our Action Plan.

Class schedule

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Once your preparations become more concrete, you can draw up a class schedule. Use our sample timetable as a starting point.

Pricing

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Before you make your classes known to your target audience, think about pricing.

Flyer Recruiting Participants

Example

Use this example and create your own recruiting flyer to attract participants to your classes.

Information letter Participants

Example

Use this example and create your own clear letter to inform participants about the lessons.

Manual - digital platform defietschool.be

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Publishing Cycling Lessons on defietschool.be - a step-by-step guide for organisers and teachers

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Logistics

From course equipment to teaching bikes: to give cycling lessons, collect all the necessary equipment beforehand. Here you will discover what all you need.

BE CYCLE: Cycling in shelters

De Fietsschool supports shelters that want to roll out a cycling initiative. Find out how to work with your residents around cycling skills, ownership, maintenance and repair here.

Aftercare and keep cycling

Learning to cycle is one thing. Keep cycling is the next challenge. Provide aftercare around bike maintenance and repair to turn your participants into truly frequent cyclists.

Do you have questions? Looking for concrete information?

Contact us, we will be happy to see if we can formulate even more specific answers to your questions.

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