Then the cyclist can make the necessary move to avoid, or at least ameliorate, the collision. In the industrialized nations, cycling competes largely with motoring and secondarily with mass transit. However, even for the trips for which cycling is best suited, people won't choose it unless they enjoy cycling as an activity, enjoying cycling for itself. Effective Cycling therefore teaches the enjoyment of cycling, from urban cycling, which is enjoyable for most trips, to club day cycling, short touring, long touring, the beginning of racing for those who wish it, and cycling with spouses and with children. Understanding and Working for Good Cycling Policy Safe, convenient, and enjoyable cycling transportation requires both good roads and good laws.
Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles.
The first aspect of Effective Cycling training teaches cyclists how to cycle properly as drivers of vehicles. The second aspect teaches them how to enjoy cycling, so they will do more of it. This third aspect teaches them to understand that the government's bicycle program was actually devised by motorists with the purpose of discouraging proper cycling, clearing the roads of cyclists for the convenience of motorists, and that this is politically acceptable only because most adults are so afraid of proper cycling that they believe that preventing delay to motorists is the greatest safety feature any bicycle program can have. This aspect of Effective Cycling teaches not only this recognition, but teaches also what individual cyclists, and the Bicycle Transportation Institute, should be doing, and can do, to preserve cyclists' rights to cycle properly with the rights of drivers of vehicles on roads that are designed to facilitate proper cycling. The Effective Cycling Program consists of four courses, each for a different age group.