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=What forces affect your bike when you are riding? Can you ride your bike safely on the road?=

Welcome grade 5 and 6 children from Seaholme Primary School. If it is term 3 in an odd year you have come to the right Wiki. If not, GO AWAY AND FIND THE CORRECT WIKI FOR YOUR CURRENT TOPIC!!

We are going to discover the answers to the two questions above during this term. (Hopefully the second answer is YES!)

This is going to be a fun term! You get to learn all about how bikes work and the forces that affect you when you are riding a bike. You will learn a variety of riding skills and road rules. You will perform Science experiments using your bikes and guinea pigs (you being the guinea pigs!). This term you will be doing numerous bike related activities in class. You will all be doing Bike Ed each Thursday, starting in the second week. This term is going to be **FUN!!!**

To take part in Bike Ed you will all need a bike helmet. They are very cheap at K Mart, Big W and Target. They are not so cheap if you try to get one of the helmets that bike riders use at the Olympics or the Tour de France. I would go to K Mart, Big W or Target.

Bikes can be relatively cheap to extremely expensive in cost. A Dutch cyclist, Theo Bos, was given a $1,000,000.00 bike for the Beijing Olympics. It was made by Koga Miyata and has the lowest air resistance of any bike in the world, no brakes and only one speed. It also has a super stiff frame that makes it one of the most difficult bikes to ride. Theo Bos finished 7th, 12th and 5th in the three events he contested at the Olympics. Maybe he should have ridden a Malvern Star Moscow 80 racing bike instead.



At least he wasn't riding one of these:



Ride safely and enjoy term 3!