Road I Cycling Class

[Mr. Bloom]

Friday night, SilverSon stopped one foot short of an adolescent tantrum over not wanting to do the Road I Cycling class in Bloomington yesterday. After about 30 minutes of adolescent posturing, he agreed to participate.

Last night, at dinner, he said "Thanks for making me go"

Here's the plug:

ROAD I is a great refresher for experienced cyclists on the evolving place that bikes play on the road, the rights that cyclists have...and the RESPONSIBILITY we have for our safety and that of the folks around us. We have to MAKE SAFETY HAPPEN!

I'm very comfortable in traffic...but after comfort comes cockiness. I know I occasssionally need a "back to basics" kick in the pants to keep me straight My guess is that many of you need that too...or avoid traffic at all costs.

Here's a list of classes offered by the League of American Bicyclists:
http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/e...on/courses.php

Seek out an LCI in your area and see if you can help organize and participate in the these classes.

The one that happened here occurred because I contacted local LCI's from this list...and asked them for the course:
http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/e...e_schedule.php

My fear is that these programs don't get the notoriety they deserve and not enough folks know that they're even happening. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem the League does a very great job of getting all the course events on their own website.

I encourage each of your to seek this out and make it happen in your area.