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Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling: St. Louis, September 21, 2019

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Truth and Techniques of Traffic Cycling

Here’s the truth: Bicycling is very safe! With a few simple techniques, discover how to make your own cycling virtually conflict-free.

No Bikes Needed

…for this fast-paced three-hour classroom session. 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.

In this session 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.

Discover how much power you have over your own safety.

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:

GO TO 3-PART COURSE

3-Part Workshop: St. Louis, MO, Sept. 21 & 22, 2019

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Fast Track to Savvy Cycling

A full CyclingSavvy in-person workshop offers the best way to experience savvy cycling in a supportive, small-group setting. The full 10-hour workshop includes all three sections: Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling, Train Your Bike, and our signature on-road experience, the Tour of St. Louis.

  • Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling (classroom session, no bike needed): 9 AM to noon, Saturday, September 21, 2019, at Center on Vandeventer. No bikes needed at this session
  • Train Your Bike (parking lot skills session): 1 PM to 4 PM Saturday, September 21, 2019, on the parking lot of Church of Latter-Day Saints
  • Tour of St. Louis: 10 AM to 2 PM Sunday, September 22, 2019, starting from Kaldi’s on Demun in Clayton

Sign up below! Then go here to take the pre-course survey — and for essential information regarding how to prepare for what we promise will be an awesome experience.

Three Action-Packed Sessions

Train Your Bike and Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling are included in the full 10-hour workshop. Register below for the full workshop. Train Your Bike or Truth & Techniques may be purchased as standalone courses. Completion of these two sessions is required before taking the on-road Tour of St. Louis.

Train Your Bike

Essential bike handling skills are presented step-by-step in an easy-to-understand manner. Three-hour session offers ample opportunity to perfect your skills. We guarantee that even experienced cyclists learn new ideas in this session.

Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling

You’ll discover why bicycling is safe in CyclingSavvy’s fast-paced and unique interactive classroom session. Discussion, animations and video illuminate ideas and bust myths.

Tour of St. Louis

The Tour of St. Louis is an experiential tour of our city’s roads. The course includes some of the most intimidating road features — intersections, interchanges, merges —  a cyclist might find in his or her travels.

We’ll travel as a group, stopping to survey and discuss each exercise location. After observing the feature, discussing the traffic dynamics and the best strategies for safe and easy passage, participants ride through individually and regroup at a nearby location.

The ticket below is for the full three-part class, including the Tour of St. Louis. Once you sign up, go here for essential information you’ll want before the workshop.

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Train Your Bike: Waltham MA – September 2019

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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:

GO TO 3-PART COURSE

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Three Part Course: Waltham MA – September 2019

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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

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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:

GO TO 3-PART COURSE

CyclingSavvy is a program of the American Bicycling Education Association. Our mission is to provide programs and resources for the education of bicyclists as drivers of vehicles, and bicycling-related education for traffic engineers, transportation planners, law enforcement professionals, educators, and the general public.

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