How can we get more people to take up cycle training?

This is also quite good;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JB9d-c-M7D0

Does anyone have any links to figures about women taking up cycle training? I'm of the understanding that way more women sign up but I'd like to know the facts!

I train adults for Islington and Camden. I would guestimate that at least 80% are women. Can't give hard numbers but you have heard right based on my experience.

1. You can do an emergency stop, what brake do you use?
   Front, its the only one i has

2. You are passing a side road, whereabouts would cycle training now advise you pass?
   by staying on teh road you are on

3. Where’s the chain on the easiest gear combination of your multi-geared bike

a) Front cog-smallest/ rear cog- biggest or b) front cog-biggest/ rear cog- smallest?

1. On your journey there are 10 junction turns you make- how many times do you indicate?
   Personally, probably twice, 3 tops

2. What turn is unusual for vehicles but easy and common for bikes?
   carving infront of traffic

3. There is a best place to ride in queuing traffic- where is it?
   Through the gaps

4. What 3 reasons is this best place to ride?
   path of least resistance, quickest way there, minimal mirror bashing

5. Youre turning left of a main road- wheres your hands?
   on the bars

6. Of the 2 positions to ride on the road, which is the dominant one that sounds like your first school?
   Hamstel? makes no sense.

7. And which submissive one matches the name of the most mature school?
   NIghtschool? makes less sense.

8. What 2 bike care actions keep you rolling better than anything else?
   cake and coffee

9. Where do you want to avoid going into whilst on the road?
   Basildon, alas i have to daily

10. Which green box isn’t always the answer to a better journey?
    xbox games!

11. What might happen to most of the urban cycle lanes you come across?
    they might attack, i heard they are a cyclepath

12. Which famous tube station instruction would we be best advised to take?
    stand on the right

Just asked in a couple of LBSs about cycle training. Admittedly a very small sample but neither seemed that clued up. One finally suggested I try the local council, fair enough, I suppose the other didn't offer any suggestions. I can't help thinking that if LBSs were more clued up (and even if they could not bring themselves to recommend it at least had a couple of leaflets) that it would encourage more people to take it up. Go on trainers, go and talk to the LBSs.

Where do you live? I think most bike shops in Hackney have been given leaflets and some do a really good job encouraging people to take up the training on offer.

In Wandsworth.