Free Bicycle Safety Classes, Family Cycling Workshops, and Kids Bike Rodeos
We offer free bicycle safety classes for cyclists of all ages. Check out the one right for you and get signed up...
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Traffic Skills 101 for 14 years and older, including adults
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Family Cycling Workshops for parents and kids
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Kids Bike Rodeos
Free front/back bike light set to every bicyclist who completes our two-day Traffic Skills 101 safety class.
Classroom Workshop:
Road Class:
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Classroom Workshop Schedule:BerkeleyWednesday, February 17, 6:00-9:30pm FremontTuesday, March 9, 2010, 6:00-9:30pm Women's class in EmeryvilleThursday, March 25, 2010, 6:00-9:30pm Register for this women's class in Emeryville. OaklandTuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:00-9:30pm AlbanySaturday, April 17, 1:00-4:30pm RichmondThursday, April 22, 2010, 6:00-9:30pm DublinThursday, April 29, 2010, 5:30-9:00pm OaklandTuesday, May 6, 2010, 6:00-9:30pm More Traffic Skills 101 Classroom Workshops being added. Please check back. |
  
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Road Class Schedule:
Oakland
Saturday, March 27, 10am-4:30pm
Joseph P. Bort Metrocenter, 101 Eighth St at Oak, next to Lake Merritt BART Station
Register for this Oakland Road class
Berkeley
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Pleasanton
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Fremont
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"I endorse the bicycle safety education program of the East Bay Bicycle Coalition and encourage all bicyclists to take an EBBC safety class. I also encourage police departments to promote these bicycle safety classes," Patrol Sergeant Shawn Maples, El Cerrito Police Department.
Download our Bicycle Safety Class Post Card to print and help us distribute. Thanks for spreading the word!
Family Cycling Workshops
The family that rides together thrives together!
Safe road bicycling takes a lot more than balance, a helmet and a good attitude. Join the East Bay Bicycle Coalition and REI safety instructors for a morning of fun games, safety drills, skills building, and a neighborhood ride. For kids able to ride a bike and who are ready to ride on the roadways with their parents. Parents and kids must attend together and should bring their own bikes. Each child receives a free red blinky light for participating!
Fremont
Saturday, Feb 20, 10am-12:30pm
Niles Elementary School, 37141 2nd Street, Fremont, CA 94536-2899
Register for this Family Cycling Workshop
Berkeley
Saturday, May 16, 9am-11:30am
REI Berkeley, 1338 San Pablo Ave at Gilman, Berkeley, CA 94710
Register for this Family Cycling Workshop
Kids Bike Rodeos
absolutely free at your school!
The East Bay Bicycle Coalition and Safe Routes to Schools Alameda County/Transform are offering Kids Bike Rodeos at schools in Alameda County starting in Fall 2009–absolutely free of charge! Our team of youth cycling instructors conduct a 1-3 hour fun-filled bike rodeo at many elementary schools and festivals around the East Bay. The rodeos include a bike safety course, skills building, walking and bicycling safety instruction, rides and free helmets for the kids. The Kids Bike Rodeos are for grades 3-5 approximately. We can provide bikes.
Upcoming Kids Bike Rodeos:
- Redwood Heights Elementary School: February 8, 2010
- Glen View Elementary School: t.b.d.
- Washington Elementary School: t.b.d.
- Malcolm X Elementary School: Spring '10
- John Muir Elementary School: Spring '10
- Glen View Elementary School: t.b.d.
Completed Kids Bike Rodeos:
- LeConte Elementary School: Thursday, December 9, (60 kids)
- Oxford Elementary School: Thursday, November 19, (63 kids)
The deadline for applying for a rodeo has passed for the Fall. Please check back in January, 2010 for our next round of rodeos. We received nine applications and are reviewing them for final decision on how many rodeos to offer this Fall. If you submitted an application, we will be in touch with you shortly. Thanks for applying.
Testimonials
- "My son David really got a lot out of the bicycle safety class -- thanks so much! We live in Fremont, and my son's biking 6 mi. to school (leaving in the dark in the a.m.), so I really wanted him to have the class. He's going to take the road class too coming up on October 31."
Carolyn Berke, Fremont resident
"I better understand "the rules" and my confidence is increased, which raises the level of both my comfort and safety. I appreciated the mix of lecture, demonstration, diagram explanations, video examples, and resources provided on paper to take with me. It felt empowering and supportive to participate with other bicyclists, enforcing my connection to the whole local biking community."
Donna Khanvali, Alameda resident
"I feel much more confident and relaxed on the road, now that I know how to position myself and how to communicate with drivers. I've noticed very experienced cyclists doing very risky maneuvers and now I know a bad example when I see it!"
Ellen Gould, Oakland resident
Funded through grants and support from the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority, Kaiser Permanente and the East Bay Community Foundation.
EBBC has worked to ensure and promote the safety of bicyclists and their bikes throughout the East Bay for over thirty years. EBBC-sponsored, League of American Bicyclists-led Street Skills cycling courses provide cyclists with tips and strategies for surviving on busy streets. Know your rights and responsibilities and ride safely! To test your knowledge of the CA Vehicle Code as it applies to bicyclists please take EBBC's Bicycle Safety Quiz. Also, check out the variety of resources on the web (such as BicycleSafe.com.)
Improve local conditions for cyclists by reporting hazardous conditions, through convenient online form provided by the East Bay Bicycle Coalition. See Report Hazards.
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