The League's Bike Ed program is the only nationally-recognized training/certification program... It's been an educational process... mostly in that it's still a license to learn, and just how little you really know at the time ;-)

The Louisville LCI seminar was an excellent program, and a great setting. I parked the pickup truck when I got there Thursday evening, and the next time I moved it was when I fired it up early Monday morning to start the long ride home. We went everywhere during the weekend on the bikes. Fifteen of us, most from the Kentucky area, but a few stray cats like the guys in Group 4 from Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin started the education block around the middle of Friday afternoon, went until around 10 that night, started the on-bike portion early Saturday morning with a urban ride through traffic (to make things interesting for us, this was the same weekend that Louisville ran the "Race For the Cure" a couple of blocks away); did practice teaching most of the afternoon, ran a few more lecture blocks until it got dark, then rode way out of town to where there were no street lights for the night riding portion, to test headlights, and learn about making yourself visible in the dark. Rode back to our base back downtown, getting in just a little after 10 p.m. Sunday morning we had some free time while the church was using our classroom for its intended purpose; so we went riding back out in the traffic again. At noon we did the road test, the block on teaching kids' courses, and finished up the practice teaching. Scored everybody, and wrapped up a little before 7 p.m.

The certificates, registration number, and secret handshakes should be in the mail from the League sometime in the next week; right now it's a bit of recuperation, and starting to get my stuff together to help out in some local classes over the next couple of months and get a little more active on advocacy issues.

If you're looking to learn to ride the streets, I heartily recommend taking the Road I course, and if you're really feeling frisky, start down the path to becoming an LCI. Seems like I've lived, breathed, and slept bikes for the past couple of months ;-)

Tom
Newbie LCI #17??