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Cycling Merit Badge
Requirements
Source - Boy Scout Requirements 2006
Last Revised - January 1, 2004
- Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while cycling, including
hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, insect stings, tick bites, snakebites,
blisters, and hyperventilation.
- Clean and adjust a bicycle. Prepare it for inspection using a bicycle safety checklist.
Be sure the bicycle meets local laws.
- Show your bicycle to your counselor for inspection. Point out the adjustments or repairs
you have made. Do the following:
- Show all points that need oiling regularly.
- Show the points that should be checked regularly to make sure the bicycle is safe to
ride.
- Show how to adjust brakes, seat level and height, and steering tube.
- Describe how to brake safely with foot brakes and with hand brakes.
- Show how to repair a flat. Use an old bicycle tire.
- Take a road test with your counselor and demonstrate the following:
- Properly mount, pedal, and brake including emergency stops.
- On an urban street with light traffic, properly execute a left turn from the center
of the street; also demonstrate an alternate left turn technique used during periods
of heavy traffic.
- Properly execute a right turn.
- Demonstrate appropriate actions at a right-turn-only lane when you are continuing
straight.
- Show proper curbside and road-edge riding. Show how to ride safely along a row of
parked cars.
- Cross railroad tracks properly.
- Describe your state's traffic laws for bicycles. Compare them with motor-vehicle laws.
Know the bicycle-safety guidelines.
- Avoiding main highways, take two rides of 10 miles each, two rides of 15 miles each,
and two rides of 25 miles each. You must make a report of the rides taken. List
dates, routes traveled, and interesting things seen. *
- After fulfilling requirement 8, lay out on a road map a 50-mile trip. Stay away from main
highways. Using your map, make this ride in eight hours.
* The bicycle must have all required safety features. It must be registered as required
by your local traffic laws.
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