Train Your Bike: Waltham MA – September 2019

November 22, 2018/0 Comments/in CyclingSavvy Class /by John Allen

Train Your Bike – Bike Handling Skills

In three short hours, you will learn to command your bike with precision and confidence.

Train Your Bike – Saturday, September 21 at 9 AM – Noon at MacArthur School. Rain date: Sunday, September 22.

Pizzi Farms deli and ice-cream stand is just across the street if you would like to have lunch following the session.

In this session we teach essential techniques for handling your bike easily and efficiently. The session is conducted in a parking lot. It offers a progressive series of group activities and individual coaching to build skills from simple balance and shifting gears to avoiding hazards.

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

The ticket below is for a single session. If you want to take the full course, purchase your ticket on the 3-Part Course listing:

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Three Part Course: Waltham MA – September 2019

November 22, 2018/0 Comments/in CyclingSavvy Full Course /by John Allen

Maximize your cycling experience!

The full CyclingSavvy Course INCLUDES Truth & Techniques (classroom session), Train Your Bike (bike handling) session, and our signature on-road experience — Tour of Waltham.

Truth & Techniques (classroom session) and Train Your Bike (bike handling) are included in this 3-part workshop. Completion of these two sessions is required before taking the Tour session, and you may sign up for individual sessions — see their listings to do that.

Truth & Techniques – Friday, September 20, 6:30-9:30 PM at Linwood Avenue, Newton

Train Your Bike – Saturday, September 21 at 9 AM – Noon at MacArthur School

…Lunch break…Pizzi Farms deli and ice-cream stand is just across the street.

Tour of Waltham – Saturday, September 21 at 1 PM – 4:30 PM from MacArthur School

The Tour of Waltham is an experiential tour of our city’s 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.

Train Your Bike (bike handling) and Truth & Techniques (classroom session) are included in this 3-part workshop. Completion of these two sessions is required before taking the Tour session.

The ticket below gives the time for the first (classroom) session, but it is for the full three-part course, including the Tour of Waltham session.

Truth and Techniques: Waltham MA – September 2019

March 9, 2019/0 Comments/in CyclingSavvy Class /by John Allen

Truth and Techniques of Traffic Cycling

Bicycling is very safe! With a few simple techniques, you’ll learn how you can make your own cycling virtually conflict-free.

In our three-hour classroom session, we’ll show you how much power you have over your own safety. The most common types of crashes — even those caused by motorist errors — are predictable and avoidable, if you know where to look and where to be. Then we’ll take a deep dive into unique strategies for mastering even the most intimidating and complicated scenarios. We use illustrations, animations and video to make it fun, engaging, and easy to understand. You will come away with a tool kit of knowledge and strategies to apply to whatever kind of riding you want to do.

The ticket below is for a single session. If you want to take the full course, purchase your ticket on the 3-Part Course listing: