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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:

• 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.
• Gain significant skills to help them be more competent & comfortable riding in traffic.
• 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.'

The course can be offered in one of three ways:

1. As an option for staff to purchase on their own.
2. Partially subsidized by your organization (we provide you with a customized coupon code).
3. 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:

   

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.

Sample content from the course:

 

The online course incorporates descriptive text, video, graphics, photos and quizzes, covering the following topics in depth:

• Bike handling skills: Including scanning, signaling, ‘cadence’ and shifting
• Being an MVP-C: Maneuverable, Visible, Predictable and Communicative
• Your legal rights & duties: How following the law works in your favor
• Scanning & signaling: Putting them into practice
• Choosing your place on the road: Selecting the proper lane and lane position, avoiding parked cars, managing bike lanes
• Managing intersections (including 4-way stops): Lane position, stopping, right of way, making turns and more
• Riding on sidewalks/two abreast/near large vehicles/on paths & trails
• Required & recommended equipment
• Parking and locking your bike

There is approximately 4 hours of content in total. Riders can learn at their own pace, gaining valuable insights they can use on their very next ride. The content can be viewed all at once or a bit at a time, and returned to for review and improvement any time during the six-month access period.

For a full listing of the topics covered, see the bottom of this page.

Purchase access:

     

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 we’ll explore: