Governments • Businesses • Colleges & universities • Advocacy groups • Charity ride organizations • Cycling clubs
Here’s what is explored in the course:
How people behave in traffic
How people behave in traffic
- Our reaction to other people’s errors
- Video: It’s a 3-Way Street
- How do these behaviors come about?
- Our attitude and its impact
- Monitoring our thoughts
- Evaluating our skills
- Learning from our experiences
Bike handling skills
Bike handling skills
- Parts of the bike
- Does your bike fit you?
- Braking
- Pedaling cadence
- Riding in a straight line
- Scanning behind
- Optional section: Shifting gears
Being an MVP-C
Being an MVP-C
- Maneuverable: Creating space around you
- Visible: Being seen, day and night
- Predictable: Helping others make the right decisions
- Communicative: Getting across the right messages
Your rights & duties
Your rights & duties
- Knowing your true place in traffic
- “But you don’t pay for the roads!” (Yes, we do.)
- What’s the point of the law?
- What we expect, and what drivers expect of us
- Our effect on other cyclists
- A summary of traffic laws for cyclists:
- Three levels of traffic laws
- Definition of a bicycle
- Required equipment
- General operation
- Where to ride on the road
- Obeying traffic control devices
- Right of way
- Riding on sidewalks
- Parking your bike
- Legal doesn’t equal safe
- What if we disagree with a law?
Scanning & signaling
Scanning & signaling
Scanning for traffic
- Why it’s important
- Review of steps to make it easier
- When to scan
- Using mirrors
Signaling
- Why it’s important
- What we need to signal, and tips to make it easier
- Turns
- Lane changes
- Change of position within a lane
- Stops
- Pulling onto the roadway
- Waving thanks
- Signaling–how, and how often?
Putting it all together
- Scan, Signal, Scan, Go.
- How this looks in real life
Choosing your place on the road
Choosing your place on the road
Choosing a lane and lane position
- A reasoned approach
- Seeing things from a driver’s perspective
- Ride with traffic
- Risks of wrong-way riding
- How we choose our lane position
- Avoiding roadside hazards
- Giving ourselves space
- How far right?
- When we can move left
- Controlling the lane
- How this helps drivers
- What our options are
- Communicating with others
- Some important considerations
- Riding on one-way streets
- What does controlling the lane look like?
Parked cars
- The potential risks
- What’s a safe distance?
- Legal responsibility for drivers & passengers
- What a safe distance looks like
Bike lanes
- Do we have to ride in them?
- What are our options?
Intersections
Intersections
Lane position at intersections
- A, B or C position?
- Common driver errors at intersections, and how to discourage them
- Stopping at an intersection
- Positioning in bike lanes and at 4-way stops
- Travelling through the intersection
- If you ride in ‘C’ position
- If a driver turns across your path
- Regardless of what lane position you take…
- Right turn only lanes
When stopping is required
- Stop signs and red lights
- What might you miss?
- Go! No, stop!
- Fewer decisions are needed
- Drivers’ perceptions
- The cost of a ticket
- What is the point of the law?
- Where to stop
Right of way
- Don’t assume you have it
- First come, first served
- Yield to the person on the right
- Yield if you are turning
- Taking your turn
- Pedestrians’ right of way
- Which is a legal crosswalk?
- Communicate with others
Traffic lights
- Why a green light doesn’t mean ‘go’
- Judging the timing
- Starting off quickly
- Triggering traffic lights
Making turns
- Right turns
- Left turns
- Changing lanes: moving from ‘C’ position
- Changing lanes: with traffic around you
- Changing lanes: signaling
- Changing lanes: with no traffic around you
- Using the gaps
- Preparing for the turn
- Lane position for the turn
- Waiting position
- Making the turn
Traffic circles & roundabouts
Other riding situations
Other riding situations
Passing on the right
- Good reasons not to
- When and how we can do it
- Lane-splitting
Sidewalk riding
- Why do people ride on sidewalks?
- Potential risks
- Making the decision
Other situations
- Riding near buses
- Riding in parking spaces
- Riding side-by-side
- Riding on paths & trails
Equipment
Equipment
Required & optional equipment
- Brakes
- Lighting: what’s needed, and when
- Helmets
ABC Quick Check (bike)
A more detailed check
Sizing, configuring, & adjusting your bike
Parking your bike
- Deterring bike theft
- Where to park your bike
- How to lock it up
- What kind of locks?
Summary & feedback
Summary & feedback
- Includes an option for a brief survey so you can let us know what you think of the course.
Visit this page for more details.
Coming soon—briefer versions priced to allow purchase for larger numbers of participants:
• 2-hour version
• 30-minute version
For complimentary course access and to request a bulk-purchase discount, complete the form at the bottom of the page.
Why purchase online cycling skills training for your staff or volunteers?
- Increase the number of your organization’s staff / members / volunteers who ride bikes to work.
- Boost the confidence and competence of current riders.
- Reduce their likelihood of crashes or collisions, or receiving traffic citations.
- Improve your company’s image by improving their behavior and interactions on the road.
- Help you gain or improve your organization’s ranking in the League of American Bicyclists’ Bicycle Friendly America program
Bicycle Friendly State
/ Bicycle Friendly Community / Bicycle Friendly University / Bicycle Friendly Business
By taking this course, they will:
By taking this course, they will:- Gain significant skills to help them be more competent & comfortable riding in traffic.
- Discover the rights and duties they have while riding their bike.
- Explore proven ways to encourage more drivers to respect them.
- 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 crashes or collisions, or receiving traffic citations.
Features and benefits of our training:
- We handle all the logistics:
- Course 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.
- Customized to include legislation and ordinances for each state/municipality/county.
- 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.
Exceeds national cycling education standards.
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
- Cycling Canada’s ‘CAN-BIKE’ program
Its content and methodology were modeled after state and provincial government standards for defensive driving courses.
With more than 18 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
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.' |
Would you like to review the course first, to see if it fits your needs?
Simply complete the form below, and we will provide you with complimentary access.
The course can be offered in one of three ways:
- As an option for staff to purchase on their own.
- Partially subsidized by your organization (we provide you with a customized coupon code).
- Purchased outright by your organization as a benefit for staff (bulk purchase discounts are available).
Purchasing information:
- Regular cost: $34.95 per person for 6 full months 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 – contact us for details).
- Guarantee: 30-day money-back guarantee for all registrants.
Purchase access for your staff / members / volunteers:
Get complimentary access to the course, and request a bulk-purchase discount.
Simply complete this form, and we will provide you with complimentary access so you may review the course. We will also send you information on discount options.
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.
Here’s what is explored in the course:
How people behave in traffic
How people behave in traffic
- Our reaction to other people’s errors
- Video: It’s a 3-Way Street
- How do these behaviors come about?
- Our attitude and its impact
- Monitoring our thoughts
- Evaluating our skills
- Learning from our experiences
Bike handling skills
Bike handling skills
- Parts of the bike
- Does your bike fit you?
- Braking
- Pedaling cadence
- Riding in a straight line
- Scanning behind
- Optional section: Shifting gears
Being an MVP-C
Being an MVP-C
- Maneuverable: Creating space around you
- Visible: Being seen, day and night
- Predictable: Helping others make the right decisions
- Communicative: Getting across the right messages
Your rights & duties
Your rights & duties
- Knowing your true place in traffic
- “But you don’t pay for the roads!” (Yes, we do.)
- What’s the point of the law?
- What we expect, and what drivers expect of us
- Our effect on other cyclists
- A summary of traffic laws for cyclists:
- Three levels of traffic laws
- Definition of a bicycle
- Required equipment
- General operation
- Where to ride on the road
- Obeying traffic control devices
- Right of way
- Riding on sidewalks
- Parking your bike
- Legal doesn’t equal safe
- What if we disagree with a law?
Scanning & signaling
Scanning & signaling
Scanning for traffic
- Why it’s important
- Review of steps to make it easier
- When to scan
- Using mirrors
Signaling
- Why it’s important
- What we need to signal, and tips to make it easier
- Turns
- Lane changes
- Change of position within a lane
- Stops
- Pulling onto the roadway
- Waving thanks
- Signaling–how, and how often?
Putting it all together
- Scan, Signal, Scan, Go.
- How this looks in real life
Choosing your place on the road
Choosing your place on the road
Choosing a lane and lane position
- A reasoned approach
- Seeing things from a driver’s perspective
- Ride with traffic
- Risks of wrong-way riding
- How we choose our lane position
- Avoiding roadside hazards
- Giving ourselves space
- How far right?
- When we can move left
- Controlling the lane
- How this helps drivers
- What our options are
- Communicating with others
- Some important considerations
- Riding on one-way streets
- What does controlling the lane look like?
Parked cars
- The potential risks
- What’s a safe distance?
- Legal responsibility for drivers & passengers
- What a safe distance looks like
Bike lanes
- Do we have to ride in them?
- What are our options?
Intersections
Intersections
Lane position at intersections
- A, B or C position?
- Common driver errors at intersections, and how to discourage them
- Stopping at an intersection
- Positioning in bike lanes and at 4-way stops
- Travelling through the intersection
- If you ride in ‘C’ position
- If a driver turns across your path
- Regardless of what lane position you take…
- Right turn only lanes
When stopping is required
- Stop signs and red lights
- What might you miss?
- Go! No, stop!
- Fewer decisions are needed
- Drivers’ perceptions
- The cost of a ticket
- What is the point of the law?
- Where to stop
Right of way
- Don’t assume you have it
- First come, first served
- Yield to the person on the right
- Yield if you are turning
- Taking your turn
- Pedestrians’ right of way
- Which is a legal crosswalk?
- Communicate with others
Traffic lights
- Why a green light doesn’t mean ‘go’
- Judging the timing
- Starting off quickly
- Triggering traffic lights
Making turns
- Right turns
- Left turns
- Changing lanes: moving from ‘C’ position
- Changing lanes: with traffic around you
- Changing lanes: signaling
- Changing lanes: with no traffic around you
- Using the gaps
- Preparing for the turn
- Lane position for the turn
- Waiting position
- Making the turn
Traffic circles & roundabouts
Other riding situations
Other riding situations
Passing on the right
- Good reasons not to
- When and how we can do it
- Lane-splitting
Sidewalk riding
- Why do people ride on sidewalks?
- Potential risks
- Making the decision
Other situations
- Riding near buses
- Riding in parking spaces
- Riding side-by-side
- Riding on paths & trails
Equipment
Equipment
Required & optional equipment
- Brakes
- Lighting: what’s needed, and when
- Helmets
ABC Quick Check (bike)
A more detailed check
Sizing, configuring, & adjusting your bike
Parking your bike
- Deterring bike theft
- Where to park your bike
- How to lock it up
- What kind of locks?
Summary & feedback
Summary & feedback
- Includes an option for a brief survey so you can let us know what you think of the course.
