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> Online traffic skills courses / learn-to-ride lessons

  • ONLINE COURSES
    • Traffic Smarts for Cyclists
      • Purchasing for your organization
      • Purchasing for friends & family members
      • Applying a coupon code
    • ‘Defensive Cycling’ (ticket dismissal)
      • Info for courts, attorneys, & LEOs
      • Info for course participants
        • Austin, TX and region
        • Houston, TX
        • Resources
    • Navigation, interactivity, & quizzes
  • CYCLING SKILLS
    • Equipment
      • Choosing & fitting your bike helmet
    • Bike handling
      • Shifting gears
  • CYCLING LAWS
    • Canada
      • AB – Alberta
        • AB – Alberta Traffic Safety Act
      • BC – British Columbia
        • British Columbia Motor Vehicle Act
      • SK – Saskatchewan
        • Saskatchewan Traffic Safety Act
        • Regina: Traffic bylaw — Cyclists
        • Saskatoon: Cycling bylaw
    • USA
      • Uniform Vehicle Code
      • CA – California
        • CA Vehicle Code
        • Santa Monica
          • Santa Monica Municipal Code
      • TX – Texas
        • TX Transportation Code
        • Austin Code of Ordinances
        • Houston Code of Ordinances
      • VA – Virginia
        • VA – Code of Virginia: Motor Vehicles
  • ON-BIKE TRAINING
    • Riding in traffic
    • Learn to ride a bike
      • Read one mother’s story
      • About the training
      • Saskatoon, SK
      • Austin, TX

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Experienced cyclist or beginner

What if riding your bike in traffic just kept getting better?











Online traffic skills courses No-cost cycling skills resources Cycling laws ‘Defensive Cycling’ ticket dismissal course On-bike training

Online traffic skills courses

graphic: online traffic skills courses for cyclists

Are you fully comfortable riding your bike in traffic?

Explore proven ways to be noticed and respected on the road.

No matter what type of riding you do, or want to do
• commuting • recreational • touring • road • triathlon
our courses will help increase your competence & ease out on the street.


graphic: cycling--how far away to ride from parked cars steps to take when making a left turn on a bicycle how to trigger a traffic light when riding a bicycle

Our online traffic skills course for cyclists has a 5-star rating

Separate courses for the United States & Canada


Whether you're a skilled rider or a newcomer:

  • Gain significant skills to be more competent & comfortable riding in traffic.
  • Discover the rights & duties you have when riding your bike.
  • Explore proven ways to encourage drivers to respect these rights.
  • Understand the impact of what you do (or don't do) in traffic, and how you can bring about positive interactions.
  • Reduce your likelihood of crashes or collisions, or receiving traffic tickets.
  • Increase your chances of gaining work involving cycling or transportation demand management.

graphic: riding further left in the lane to discourage drivers from coming too close judging the timing of a red traffic light riding a bike on paths & trails--what to consider

Explore ways to:
• Choose your lane & lane position • Navigate intersections with skill & confidence • Discourage common driver errors • Trigger a traffic light that normally doesn't detect you • Judge the timing of traffic lights

What do you get?

5 hours of interactive content:
video • descriptive text • photos • graphics • animations • quizzes

  • Learn from wherever you are, at your own pace.
  • View it a bit at a time, or all at once.
  • Return as often as you like to review & improve.

It’s worth it

"This is such an excellent resource. I’ve been commuting to school/work for 12 years and consider myself to be a pretty good rider, but I learned so much here. I’ve read plenty of things online and even a few books, but this addressed a lot of concerns I had and presented new info in a way that’s easy to comprehend (the graphics and videos helped a lot).

"I liked that I could go back in when I wanted and it kept my place.

"I’ve been trying out what I learned on my rides this week, and it’s already making a big difference. Thanks!"

— Stephen R.

Guaranteed.

30-day money back guarantee.

Only $34.95 for 6 months of access.

If for any reason you're not completely satisfied, your money will be fully refunded.

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No-cost cycling skills resources

No-cost cycling skills resources

Improve your game with valuable content from our popular online courses.

Bike handling skills

  • Braking
  • Shifting gears
  • Scanning behind
  • Signalling
  • Low-speed balancing

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Traffic skills

  • Being an MVP-C: maneouvrable, visible, predictable, & communicative
  • Choosing your place on the road (lanes & lane position)
  • Negotiating intersections
  • Other riding situations
    • Passing on the right
    • Sidewalk riding
    • Riding near buses & trucks
    • Riding side-by-side
    • Riding on paths & trails
  • Your rights & duties
(Coming soon)

Equipment & accessories

  • Choosing & fitting your bike helmet

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Cycling laws

Discover what rights & duties you have while you're out on the road.


A framework for coöperating

Traffic laws provide us with guidelines for interacting on the road.

They help us predict what others will likely do, and let others know what to expect from us.

Knowing the law and riding within it also reduces the number of decisions we need to make.

The same rights & duties

In every province & territory in Canada, and in 47 states in the USA*, a person riding a bicycle has the same rights—and the same duties—as a person operating a motor vehicle.

The only exceptions are:
  • where the law specifies otherwise, or
  • where a right or duty cannot apply to someone operating a bike.
* …and in the District of Columbia. Kentucky, Ohio, and South Dakota do not specify ‘same rights & duties’ in the legislation. However, they define bicycles as vehicles.

Making sense of the legalese

The rules of the road are often written without properly taking cyclists into account.

The laws can vary widely from one province or state to another, and from one city to another.

We'll help you interpret these often complex requirements, and understand how they apply to you.

Here you'll find the laws for many provinces & states, with links to municipal regulations for select locations.

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‘Defensive Cycling’ ticket dismissal course

As featured in Bicycling magazine

Cover of Bicycling Magazine, March 2011

Our innovative ‘Defensive Cycling’ traffic ticket dismissal course was profiled in one of North America's major cycling magazines.

Created by cyclists for cyclists.

Our online traffic skills course for cyclists has a 5-star rating

Have you been given a traffic ticket while riding your bike?

A ‘Defensive Driving’ course for cyclists

Since July 2010, we've been providing an option to cyclists that has been available to drivers for years — having a traffic ticket and fine waived in exchange for taking part in valuable, effective training.

It works.

Hello Allan,

Thank you for the heads-up [Defensive Cycling procedures for dismissing a ticket], the great service and course. I am glad I learned about it from a friend. I have to say that I learned a lot from the course and I now feel I am a safer rider.

Thanks again!

— Nikos B.

The course pays for itself

With this course you'll
• find ways to avoid getting another citation • become more skilled at riding in traffic • gain more comfort on the road.

Valuable for cyclists of all experience levels.

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On-bike training

graphic: on-bike training

Traffic skills

Learn how to claim your proper place on the road.

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Bike handling skills

Standing starts • Controlled turns • Braking • Shifting gears • Scanning behind • Signalling • Low-speed balance

(Coming soon)

Learn to ride a bike

In only 3 hours, go from
never having swung a leg over a bike
to being in full control.

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Framing things in the right way. This is fun to watch.

(Thanks to Christopher Stanton for making me aware of this.)
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How I Deal With Kids Playing in My Driveway | The Saga of My Driveway Racetrack

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Every night I would get an alert from my driveway security camera, and at first I was a bit annoyed, but then I found myself looking forward to the evening a...
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Superb individual, master designer and builder of bikes and trailers, philanthropist, activist, and professional cyclist. Above all, a truly decent and caring person.

Tomorrow it will be two weeks since I and many others lost our good friend, Tony Hoar. It has taken me some time to come to grips with this loss, and to write this post.

I had the distinct fortune of knowing Tony as a good friend for nearly twenty years. We spoke several times a week, about life, the world, and our respective vocations.

This man was singularly farsighted, caring, and influential. He gave so much of himself on a regular basis, and devoted his life to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. His bike trailers transformed the way that I view transportation, and helped me live my life and do my work by bike instead of by car.

Tony my friend, you will be deeply missed, and always remembered. I promise you this, and to continue working on the things we both know to be so important. Thank you for everything you are, and always will be.

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The Center for Cycling Education updated their cover photo.

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Southbound on 5th Avenue, Manhattan, NYC, just north of 59th Street--Central Park is to the right.

The initial signal was straight out with the left arm. The lowered left arm is to let those following know that I'm changing lanes, but only moving into the right part of the adjacent lane.

Important points:
1) There's no room for the driver at left to move into my lane, which is why I moved far left in my lane to prepare to move over--ya gotta be quick here.
2) I looked far down the road, and know that the cabbie in front of me has plenty of space ahead and no possible fares on the sidewalk to the right; there will be no braking.

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Let's be honest. When you ride in traffic:
1) How comfortable are you, and
2) How often do you have negative interactions with drivers?

Many riders have become accustomed to daily frustrations and near-misses. That doesn't equate to comfort.

There are ways to address these.

What do you put up with on a regular basis?
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1 years ago

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Now available on our website--detailed traffic laws for cyclists in the following states:
- California (including Santa Monica)
- Texas (including Austin and Houston)
- Virginia

Next up: Canada, including British Columbia and Ontario, and selected cities in each.

These are currently being added to our 'Traffic Smarts for Cyclists' online courses.

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