Fancy training to be a British Cycling Ride Leader?

Do you love cycling for fun? Are you passionate about getting your local community on a bike?

We’re looking for confident recreational cyclists to train as British Cycling Ride Leaders and Route Planners. You don’t need to be a cycling expert or competitive racer, just be confident riding in a group and have a good level of cycling fitness. We welcome all kinds of cyclists as long as you have heaps of enthusiasm and you're happy to support beginner bike riders and families.

A British Cycling Ride Leader is a friendly, confident, chatty individual who love’s encouraging others to cycle and is happy to work as part of a team.

The assessed one-day course qualifies you to deliver guided bike rides for groups of beginner and intermediate level adults and accompanied children on roads and cycle paths.

‘I found the Ride Leader course a fantastic experience and will be recommending the course to everyone!’ Colin Bird, Birmingham Ride Leader.

In addition to free training, we’ll provide you with branded kit, a British Cycling Ride membership, payment for leading and assisting on rides; plus plenty of other goodies.

In return, we expect our Ride Leaders to be flexible with their weekend availability and commit to leading rides on no less than four weekends during 2014. All rides are delivered on set routes, at set times, specified by British Cycling, the majority of rides will take place on Sundays during the spring and summer months.

We are now accepting expressions of interest for training courses in early 2014 - so if you're interested in becoming a British Cycling Ride Leader please download and complete our expression of interest form.

Please note: At present the locations and dates of our 2014 Ride Leader Training courses have not been confirmed, therefore we cannot guarantee that there will be a course in your area.