Monday. By 7:30, all the bikes are ready for the day’s blacktop drills.
Last day of bike drills, tomorrow is the first street ride.
Tuesday. Charlie is here to lead a group. Mike came to repair a few bikes.
My yellow group did a great job on their first ride.
Wednesday. Second street ride. Thank you Milan for riding sweep. Thank you Barbara for joining us with very short notice.
Although I’m trying to cut back on my teaching schedule, sometimes I can’t say no. I agreed to be the co-lead at Natomas Park Elementary for two weeks. Monday: Deanna is an excellent instructor and always calm no matter what comes up. And I discovered I’m a bit rusty in presenting a good lesson.
One small watermelon with a big smile on its face wore a helmet and one melon refused to wear a bike helmet. Both went for a bike ride and both fell. The melon with no helmet cracked its head open and the kids all went “ooooohhh.”
Tuesday. Bike parts and helmet fitting. Barbara was added to the team.
Wednesday: first day of bike drills.
One class had almost half who didn’t know how to ride. I worked with them to the side of the bike drill lanes.
It was about 95 degrees today and there was after-school coaching. Hot and tired by 3:00 end.
Thursday. A classroom day to learn about moving through intersections and right-of-way rules.
This was my last day this week because of a special event on Friday.
The last day of the program. Barbara and Kathy outlining today’s activities:
Triple Rings of Fire:
Mike came by to service a few bikes.
Jibe’s fleet of bicycles. At the end of the day, we stack all the bikes, run a cable through all of them, and finish with a strong u-lock.
Great day with good friends and co-workers.
This was the first street-ride day at Northlake. There were quite a few kids who weren’t ready to go on a street ride. Deanna and I stayed with them and worked on basic skills. Wes and Buddy along with the 5th grade teacher took another group out for a short street ride.
Just a few kids who needed to learn how to ride. Quite a few just wanted to ride around, although we (Barbara, Kathy and I) add in some skills they can also practice like hand signals and scanning.
Today I helped out at Northlake Elementary for helmet fitting day.
Lorge teaching bike parts:
Deanna introducing the next video:
Barbara teaching bike parts to the second class.
I led a ride to Celebrate Natomas. We left from the Jibe office: Jim, Paul, Lennore, Minka.
We stayed about an hour. Sadly, Lennore’s bike had a rear flat tire after we checked out from Bike Valet. Marcelino did his best to help.
We left Lennore at the event. At Airport Rd, Paul, Jim and Minka rode back to the start point. I rode fast back to my house to get my vehicle. I drove back to the event, picked up Lennore/bike, drove Lennore back to Jibe office to get her vehicle, met her at her garage where we unloaded her bike. I have been rescued SO many times on past bike rides and tours – I am passing on the good vibes.
The first Friday in August. We met at Frends. Lots of bicycle talk.
Congratulations Lorge, our most recently trained League Cycling Instructor.
Brenda led a Jibe social ride to the end of the Dry Creek Parkway near the Cherry Island soccer complex. I rode sweep. We met at Kohl’s.
16 riders – very good turn out.
Sacramento Northern Bike Trail goes through Elverta, Rio Linda, and Robla.
E Levee Rd:
A group of 16 people met on Saturday morning at Peregrine Park and rode to W Sacramento for the Breathe Bike Fest – the kickoff event for May is Bike Month. This was a Jibe-organized ride.
