Different, awesome, sometimes institutionalized things that happen around bikiness
Did you know that May is National Bike Month? I’m always a little skeptical of national fill-in-the-blank months (who comes up with these things, anyway? And who makes them national?), but a bike month is something I can get behind! :) Anyway, the League of American Bicyclists has a whole …
Field trip to a bike shop!! Last week, my co-teacher Josh and I took our Bike Club on an expedition to Upcycles, an awesome bike shop right on the Dekum triangle and next door to Woodlawn Park. A bunch of the kiddos live nearby, and we wanted to introduce them …
Bike Club today was super exciting: our first “neighborhood ride”–that is, the first time we take the kids out on the roads, riding for real. Woohoo!! My co-teacher Josh and I were a little nervous because we haven’t had too much of a chance to bike with these kids yet. …
It’s spring! It must be time for another season of Bike Club! (courtesy of the Community Cycling Center) That’s right. That means that about 65 kids at six different schools are now deep in the process of learning how to ride safely, read maps, fix simple things on their bicycles, …
