News on cycling education and bicycle encouragement

During the Bike To Work Days from 12 to 16 May 2025, Lease a Bike will donate €0.23 per commuting kilometre cycled to De Fietsschool. With this support, more people in mobility poverty can learn to cycle and thus participate more independently in society.

Eighteen proud children received their cycling reports from Mayor Mohamed Ridouani today. They successfully completed the lesson series of Fietsschool XS, which teaches children aged between 6 and 12 years how to cycle safely and confidently in traffic.

In Diest, the cycling classes started successfully with seven enthusiastic participants and a strong team of volunteers.

The City of Ghent opened a brand new Fietsschool in Muide-Meulestede, where young and old can learn to cycle safely.

At the Flemish Road Safety Congress on 18 March, our trainers Lotte and Hannelore were our guests to introduce De Fietsschool. With De Fietsschool, we move heaven and earth to combat mobility poverty by giving cycling lessons to children, young people and adults who have a bicycle arrears. Especially people who are new to Belgium and have little experience with the traffic rules are thus given the chance to learn to cycle safely and independently.

Together with De Fietsschool, the City of Leuven recently started organising cycling lessons for primary school children. Under the name "Fietsschool XS", young beginners are given the chance to learn to cycle safely and fluently in four lessons. Other towns, municipalities and schools can also get started with this low-threshold approach.

The first cycling lesson of the year in Leuven is over, and what a pleasure to see the children take their first steps on the Blauwputplein.

Not every child learns to ride a bike at the same speed. For parents and teachers, it is not always easy to assess whether a child is ready to ride a bike on the street. Thanks to our bike test for children aged 5 to 12, you can find out in a few simple steps whether a child is ready.

A brief thank you to our wonderful volunteers.

Our reaction to the article ''Why don't many parents bother to teach their child to ride a bike anymore?" from Knack, 29/10/2024.

We feared quite a few last-minute cancellations for the sake of the unexpected cold weather on Thursday 21 November, but 11 brave cyclists turned up.
So we are happy to share some atmospheric images.

Ostend wants to get as many Austrians as possible on their bikes. That is why it is greatly expanding its offer of cycling lessons. By 2023, not 20 but 180 people will be able to take cycling lessons. Registrations for those lessons are now open.