when i passed i bought an MTB to bring me to the same level as the student. Slower than my road bike, flat pedals etc. I use that for level 1 & 2 training. I tend to use my cross or road bike for level 3 as those students tend to be fasterCheers for the encouragement @buggi will volounteer to assist in the meantime and practice more.
Shame I like to ride my singlespeed, in heavy traffic it just does not cut it at my level of fitness ... might lose a stone or so to compensate
You are of course, correct, i don't think i really thought about how i was writing what i was meaning to say. What is actually important is not speed, but confidence. When you are confident you are less likely to be hesitant in setting off from junctions, and thus do not unnecesarily hold up traffic. That's what i was trying to get at, not meaning to tell @Pat "5mph" to be a speed queen, i just didn't word it well. Perhaps i have worded that a little better now, as I think this is what her instructor trainers were trying to put across.I'd like to politely disagree with buggi. Why should Pat, or anyone else, be expected to be able to sprint at 20 mph in order to "not hold up traffic"? I will ride my bike as and where I want, at a speed I am capable of doing, and the traffic can wait until I consider it safe to let it past. What is more important, my safety or 20 seconds of someone else's time? (Note that I am not advocating holding up traffic indefinitely, or for no good reason, but this expectation that cyclists have to be fit and fast to ride on the roads is one of the things that puts people like Pat's "Belles" off cycling. And of course if we had better infrastructure then people wouldn't have to deal with traffic so much anyway).