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  • ONLINE COURSES
    • Traffic Smarts for Cyclists
      • Purchasing for your organization
        • A quick overview of the steps
      • Individual purchase: USA
      • Individual purchase: CANADA
      • 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
    • About our online courses
      • Navigation, interactivity, & quizzes
  • CYCLING SKILLS
    • Riding in traffic
      • Changing lanes in traffic
      • Triggering a traffic light on your bike
      • Navigating traffic circles & roundabouts
      • Riding with kids
    • Bike handling
      • Braking
      • Shifting gears
    • Equipment
      • Parts of the bicycle
      • Checking your bike for safety
      • Choosing & adjusting your bicycle helmet
  • CYCLING LAWS
    • Canada
      • AB – Alberta
        • 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
        • California Vehicle Code
        • Santa Monica
          • Santa Monica Municipal Code
      • TX – Texas
        • Texas Transportation Code
        • Austin Code of Ordinances
        • Houston Code of Ordinances
      • VA – Virginia
        • Code of Virginia: Motor Vehicles
      • WA – Washington State
        • Revised Code of Washington (RCW)
        • Seattle Municipal Code
  • ON-BIKE TRAINING
    • Riding in traffic
    • Learn to ride a bike
      • Read one mother’s story
      • About the training
      • Saskatoon, SK
      • Austin, TX
Home » Online traffic skills courses for cyclists » Bringing the Traffic Smarts course to your organization

Bringing the Traffic Smarts course to your organization

Businesses • Government agencies • Universities, colleges, & schools • Non-profits • Advocacy groups • Charity ride organizations • Cycling clubs

Bulk purchase discounts are available. Details below.


online course info sheet for decision-makers
2-page info sheet in .pdf
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  • Trigger an unresponsive traffic light on your bicycle.<!--<br />Seasoned rider? New to cycling in traffic? Add years of experience to your tool kit right now.-->
    Trigger an unresponsive traffic light on your bike.
  • Improve your daytime (and nighttime) visibility when riding your bicycle.
    Improve your daytime (and nighttime) visibility.
  • Be maneuverable, visible, predictable, and communicative on a bicycle in traffic
    How to be an MVP-C: maneuverable, visible, predictable, and communicative.
  • Move away from the curb to make yourself more visible & gain maneuverability.
    Moving away from the curb: when it's legal, and safer, to be further left in the lane.
  • Discourage the left cross in an intersection on your bicycle.
    Discourage the left cross in an intersection.
  • Pass parked cars on your bicycle without concern.
    Pass parked cars without concern.
Sample content from our online cycling courses.

Providing online cycling skills training for your personnel:

  • Purchase access now
  • About the course
  • Why purchase online cycling skills training for your personnel?
  • Purchasing details
  • Sample sections from our courses
  • Request complimentary access

For complimentary course access and to request a bulk-purchase discount, complete the form at the bottom of the page. » Go to form.

Purchase access now:
Traffic Smarts for Cyclists USA Traffic Smarts for Cyclists CANADA



About the course:

  • 5 hours of interactive content incorporating video, descriptive text, photos, graphics, animations, and quizzes.
    • Some learners can complete the training in roughly 2 hours.
  • A full year of access.
  • Visit this page for details on what is explored in the course. link opens in new window

Coming soon—briefer versions priced to allow purchase for larger numbers of participants: 2-hour version / 30-minute version.



Why provide online cycling skills training for your personnel?

Benefits to you

Benefits to you & your organization of offering this training:

  • Reduce the likelihood of a cycling crash, collision, or lawsuit.
  • Protect your company’s image by improving riders’ interactions in public.
  • Improve your ability to attract & retain personnel.
  • Raise their workplace contentment & loyalty.
  • Increase the number who ride their bike to work.
  • Boost the confidence and competence of current riders (and encourage them to ride to work more often).
  • Decrease demand on your costly parking facilities.
  • Help gain or improve your organization’s ranking in the League of American Bicyclists’ Bicycle Friendly America program:
    Bicycle Friendly State link opens in new window / Bicycle Friendly Community link opens in new window / Bicycle Friendly University link opens in new window / Bicycle Friendly Business link opens in new window
  • Increase your opportunities for securing sustainability grants.

What participants will take away

By taking this course, they will:

  • Gain skills to become more competent, co-operative, & comfortable in traffic.
  • Discover the rights and duties they have while riding.
  • Explore proven ways to encourage more drivers to respect their rights.
  • Understand the impact of their actions in traffic, and how they can bring about positive interactions.
  • Represent your organization in a more positive way while riding.
  • Reduce their likelihood of a crash or collision, a traffic ticket, or a lawsuit.

Exceeds national standards

Above and beyond:

The course significantly exceeds the traffic skills training requirements for the national programs in the United States and Canada:

  • League of American Bicyclists’ ‘Smart Cycling’ program link opens in new window
  • Cycling Canada’s ‘CAN-BIKE’ program link opens in new window

Its content and methodology were modeled after state and provincial government standards for defensive driving courses.

With more than 19 years’ experience as an instructor, the primary course developer has been both a Master Instructor with the League of American Bicyclists and a National Examiner with the Canadian Cycling Association (now Cycling Canada).

  • Others with these credentials, and numerous instructors with each program, helped develop and review the content and delivery.

Highly effective

It works exceptionally well:

In a survey directly following the course, participants have been asked the following questions. Here are the responses to date:

“Has this training influenced you
to ride according to the law?”
88%
said 'Yes.'
“Did this training help you
feel more confident about cycling in traffic?”
93%
said 'Yes.'

We make it easy

Elements that make this a wise investment:

  • We handle all the logistics:
    • Registrations.
    • Questions from participants.
    • Tracking and reporting of course progress, completion, and feedback.
    • Issuing verified certificates of completion.
  • Created by skilled and experienced cycling instructors, specifically for cyclists.
  • Proven content and platform.
  • Multiple features to ensure full compliance with training requirements.
  • Security features for Certificates of Completion and their delivery.
  • We have years of experience in multiple jurisdictions.

"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.


Would you like to review the course first, to see if it fits your needs?

  • Simply complete the form at the bottom of the page, and we will provide you with complimentary access. » Go to form.

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Purchasing details

Three options to fit your budget

The course can be offered in one of three ways:

  1. Suggested to staff to purchase on their own.
  2. Partially subsidized by your organization (we provide you with a customized coupon code for % or $ discount).
  3. Purchased outright by your organization as a benefit for staff (bulk purchase discounts are available).

Pricing

Pricing:

  • Regular cost: $35 per person for a full year of access.
  • Coupon code: We can create a customized coupon code for you to pass along to interested individuals.
  • Bulk purchase discount: Discounts are available (minimum purchase limits apply). Complete the form below to get details. » Go to form.
  • Guarantee: 30-day money-back guarantee for individual registrants.


Complimentary access & inquiries

Get complimentary access to the course, and request a bulk-purchase discount.
Simply complete the form at the bottom of the page. » Go to form.

Please note that the course enrollment process is done manually.

  • It may take up to a full business day to complete, but we make these requests a high priority.
  • If you need access more immediately, feel free to call or text us at the phone number on our contact page. link opens in new window


The purchasing steps

A quick overview of the bulk purchasing process
Also available on this page. link opens in new window

Get access now

Purchase access for your staff / members / volunteers:
Traffic Smarts for Cyclists USA Traffic Smarts for Cyclists CANADA

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To add the course to your cart:
Traffic Smarts for Cyclists USA Traffic Smarts for Cyclists CANADA



Sample sections from our courses:
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Traffic skills

  • Changing lanes in traffic link opens in new window
  • How to get a non-responsive traffic light to detect your bicycle link opens in new window
  • Navigating traffic circles & roundabouts link opens in new window

Bike handling skills

  • Proper braking technique link opens in new window
  • Shifting gears link opens in new window

Equipment

  • The parts of your bike link opens in new window
  • Checking your bike for safety link opens in new window
  • Choosing & adjusting your bicycle helmet link opens in new window

online course info sheet for decision-makers
2-page info sheet in .pdf
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