VIDEO. In Toulouse, these adults become to ride a bike
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There is no age to learn to ride a bike. In Toulouse, the association La maison du vélo gives bicycle lessons to adults who cannot pedal. Brut spent a day with them.
In Toulouse, thanks to a four-hour training course spread over four days, the association The house of the bike allows many adults to learn to ride a bike.
“Some of them dare to come to us to learn. But it is true that the gaze of society is not always obvious and suddenly, there is a certain shame”explains Maëlle, educator for the association.
“I’m scared, and I’m a little ashamed. I’m an adult, normally you don’t think adults need to choose like that.” says a student.
These adults are mostly women according to Maëlle. “There is a very large majority of women. We have men, a few, but it’s really a minority. I have the impression that it is all the more difficult to assume for men.
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