The cycling development programme aims to share the benefits of the sport of cycling with as many scholars as possible, targeting rural and semi-rural communities in all districts in the KZN province by providing coaching clinics, cycling series / leagues and events. The programme is multi-faceted and diverse with the core components being training clinics for scholars at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, capacity building and job creation initiatives and events support at varied levels.

Since the development programme began in earnest in 2019, more than 141 000 children have been included in the school’s clinics programme across all districts. The plan has been developed to ensure that not only are young riders introduced to the sport, but the talented riders identified progress through the ranks with additional training that has seen a number of riders competing in provincial, national and international level events across all disciplines as well as mass participation road and MTB events. 15 x cycling hubs have been established across all 11 x districts in KZN and supplied with trailers, bikes, helmets and other infrastructure required to be able to advance the sport.

An aggressive capacity building programme has been undertaken and courses have been run for coaches, mechanics, safety officials, event organisers, race officials, administrators, MTB & BMX track builders and also event marshals.

The aim of the capacity building initiatives is to provide skills to the course attendees that they can use to become employed and in this way to be able to change their and their family’s lives.  Capacity building and job creation programmes are linked with worthy candidates being offered internships at bike shops and MTB trail centres and the like so as to be able to gain experience and to become more employable. The marshal training programme allows for trained people to be able to work at cycling events, but also at other events in other sports such as marathons and walks and triathlon events etc