Originally Posted by deputyjones
After giving this topic some time to digest, I have to say I have similar thoughts on this, and the question I keep asking myself about JF's test is, "What's the point?" It is not as though we are going to start licensing bicyclists and require a base set of skills to ride or to ride in the road. Maybe the VC advocates would prefer that we require licenses of cyclists who wish to ride in the road with a competency test requirement to obtain the license?
I suppose there is some value in giving people a confidence boost by training them and then providing a competency test to "certify" them, but beyond this type of ***********y function I really don't see the value in a test like that one. Who would take it and why?
The value of the traffic-cycling portion of the Cyclist Proficiency Test is that it tests the cyclist for his ability to ride safely in traffic. It doesn't matter that society appears to have no interest in safe cycling; the individual cyclist certainly does.