If you know how to balance and pedal but would like to improve your bicycle handling skills and confidence - perhaps to prepare for commuting or errand-running - this on-bike, off-street practice session is for you. Your instructors will demonstrate, and you'll practice:
- Mounting and dismounting confidently
- Starting up without hesitation, stopping safely and smoothly
- Turning confidently without wobbling
- Scanning behind without veering, to check for a gap in traffic
- Steering confidently with one hand, to give a hand signal or use a water bottle
- Smoothly changing your line of travel to the left or right
Bring your working bicycle and bike helmet.
Instructors: John Ciccarelli, League Cycling Instructor; Jane Rothstein, HIP Coordinator of Environmental Behavior Change; and Ariadne Delon Scott, Stanford P&TS Bike Program Coordinator.
Fee: $35
Register on the HIP registration website (type “bike” in the gray search box and click the search icon to find these classes). For class information, contact Jane Rothstein, HIP’s coordinator of environmental behavior change, at 650.498.4744 (preferred) or janer@stanford.edu. For bicycle questions, comments, or suggestions, contact the Stanford bicycle program coordinator at bike-information@stanford.edu or 650.725.BIKE.