CyclingSavvy has come to St. Louis!
Our first public course offerings will be the first week of June.
Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling
Thursday, June 9, 6-9PM
The Center on Vandeventer
320 N. Vandeventer Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
Learn the truth and techniques of traffic cycling. Through guided discussion with video and animation, this classroom-based session familiarizes students with bicycle-specific laws, traffic dynamics and problem-solving strategies. Students discover that bicycle drivers are equal road users, with the right and ability to control their space.
This session is available á la carte for $30. You may take it as a stand-alone class.
Train Your Bike
Saturday, June 11, 8-11AM
Parking lot of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
3905 McPherson Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63108
This session is conducted in a parking lot. It consists of a set of progressive drills designed to increase students’ control and comfort handling their bikes in various situations. Drills include:
- Start/Stop, Power Pedal & Balance Stop
- Snail Race, Slow-speed Balance
- Drag-race, Gears & Acceleration
- Ride Straight, One-handed
- Shoulder Check
- Object-avoidance Handling, Weave, Snap
- Turning: Slow-speed Tight Turns, High-speed cornering, Emergency Snap-turn
- Emergency Braking
This session is available á la carte for $30. You may take it as a stand-alone class. In three short hours, you will learn to command your bike with precision and confidence.
After the Train Your Bike session the class will ride to St. Louis Bread Company for lunch before beginning the Tour of St. Louis.
Tour of St. Louis
Saturday June 11, 12:30-4PM
This session is an experiential tour of St. Louis roads. The course includes some of the most intimidating road features (intersections, interchanges, merges, etc.) a cyclist might find in his/her travels. The students travel as a group, stopping to survey and discuss each exercise location. After observing the feature, discussing the traffic dynamics and the best strategy for safe and easy passage, the students ride through individually and regroup at a nearby location. This session is designed to give you the confidence and skills to handle any situation you might encounter.
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As part of St. Louis’ inaugural Cycling Savvy class, I highly encourage all St. Louis area cyclists, young, old, experienced, and novices to take advantage of this opportunity.
[...] contacted me about my conducting a possible 4 or 5 hour bike ed. course. We met at the first-ever CyclingSavvy St. Louis course held on Friday, April 30, and Saturday, April 31. I’ll discuss this course in a [...]
I have signed up for the Thursday night class work (I can’t make Saturday the 11th because I’m running in the Koman Race for the Cure in STL that day).
This looks really good and I’m excited to be learning better techniques on bike riding in STL. One comment I would make is that, while mentioned in other training class announcements, nowhere is it mentioned in this announcement that the price for this class is $30 for an individual class and $75 for the 3 class package.
[...] visit http://cyclingsavvy.org/2011/05/cyclingsavvy-st-louis-june-classes/ for more information or to sign up for a [...]
[...] I am doing any instructing, there are Cycling Savvy classes available NOW in St. Louis. Visit the Cycling Savvy St. Louis page to find out more about the classes THIS Thursday and Saturday, which still have room for a few more [...]