Eke Pahikara

Eke Pahikara

Monday 17th May 2021

Kia ora! Today I'm going to tell you about what the importance is and the instructions for riding a bike. So I hope you enjoy this korero!

I tera wiki me and Te Puna Wairua went for a ride, the instructors were telling us the important instructions about checking a bike before riding the bike. The order was alphabetical so the letters were A.B.C.D.D.Q and those letters stand for…

Air - Test the air of the wheel before heading off.

Brakes - Make sure they work.

Chain - Make sure they're good to go.

Direction - Make sure it's straightened

Drop - To make it stable enough to ride.

Quick release - Make sure it's in so that your wheel doesn't come off.

After we did the check that our Kaiako Siva taught us, we went outside and did it on our own bikes, our instructors were JR, Joe, Seva and Hailey. After that we got put into groups and those two groups were Karearea, Kāhu (Hawk and Falcon). Then we went off to go learn some basics!

After that it was Kai iti, we all hung out with each other till we could go back to riding our bikes. After that we went to do something very exciting which was riding onto the busy road by Dunkirk. The checks were…

1. Check for any cars to see if any are coming.

2. Hop onto the bike.

3. Look once again.

4. Signal to show cars which way you are going.

5. Then look again and go.

After that we got into buddies but luckily the road wasn't that busy but I got buddied up with Lydia. After that we all finished at the end of the day, it was a really good experience because we got to learn so many things about eke pahikara. 

Nga Mihi <3