This was week 2 at Regency Park. Two days of blacktop drills and two days of street rides. The team talked with Principal Tim Hammons before the first class.
ABCQuick Check with one girl quick to try out her poses.
Favorite comment of the week from a boy as we rode over a speed table, “Ooohh, that hill made me swallow my sneeze.”
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Project Ride Smart
at Regency Park Elementary. I worked 4 days this week. Five classes of fifth graders, one hour/day for each class. My teaching partner is Doug Williams. The 40 bikes are stored in an unused classroom:
This week: 3 days of classroom instruction, 1 day of blacktop drills, and 1 after-school coaching session.
A favorite for the kids – the melon drop. Jill and Jack went for a bike ride. Jill was wearing her helmet when she crashed.
Sadly Jack refused to wear a helmet and he also crashed. His poor watermelon head cracked, juice dripped out, and everyone oohed and ahhed. Always wear your bike helmet!
SRTS in SJUSD
Tuesday at Whitney Ave Elementary:
Friday at Starr King:
Volunteers’ dinner
All the volunteers for Party Pardee were invited to New Roma Pizza as a thank-you from Bike Hikers.
Another fun get-together. Very good pizza. And it’s nice to be appreciated.
The co-chairs of Party Pardee, Becky and Joyce:
A shorter podium and better backlighting is needed next year. Right, Becky?
Party Pardee
I spent last night at Becky and Rick’s house which is about halfway between E Nicolaus and Ione where Party Pardee begins and ends. This event, its 25th year, is put on by Bike Hikers and is the first big ride of the season. There were 1258 riders and 216 volunteers. I was up at 4:30 this morning and at Rest Stop #1 by 6:30. We were located in the large parking lot of a church with a view of Lake Camanche in the distance. 
Bike racks and lots of porta-potties.
Tents and tables were set up then the fruit-cutting began.
By 8 am, we were ready for the first riders.
Great music at our rest stop.
At our most crowded time:
By 11:30, most of the riders on the short route had come through our rest stop. We were down to one table of food! Time to pack up and clean up!
SAG picked up those riders who couldn’t make it.
The last to go in – bags of trash. Whew! Done. What a great day. Everyone seemed to have lots of fun.
But we’re not done yet. Back in Ione at Howard Park, lunch was being served.
Chicken fajitas.
Happy volunteers:
Outside there were 30 or so vendors:
Gina Silvernale, fellow LCI and friend:
What a tremendously successful event. Good job Bike Hikers!
And remember:
SRTS in SJUSD
Whitney Ave Elementary is not a bike-riding school.
This is my third week of work, just 2 days/week but it’s just the right amount.
The second grade pedestrian lesson: “Look left, right, left again. Cross if it’s safe. Keep looking left and right. Don’t run.” Repeat. Repeat. It is a challenge to keep everyone’s attention for 40 minutes.
SRTS in SJUSD
Uh-oh, a drizzly rain started the day.
Yup, we were fairly wet by the end.
The late morning classes were cancelled.
Afternoon class:
SRTS in SJUSD
This spring I’m going to work a few days for the Safe Routes To School educational program in San Juan Unified School District. Today was my observation day at 
to watch Dan Allison do an in-class pedestrian lesson with 2nd grade
and bicycle safety with 5th grade.
Fun Alley Tour
Larry Robinson was the ride leader (far right) for this Bike Hikers ride. We started at the Guy West Bridge near Sac State.
We stayed on low-traffic streets when not riding through an alley – a good thing since this group tends to take over at least one lane of traffic and does a terrible job of following the rules of the road. 
As an LCI who DOES what I teach others, this is disheartening. 
Problem areas: stopping at stop signs, stopping when the traffic light turns yellow, yielding to pedestrians, following first-come, first-served right of way rule, riding more than 2-wide, riding left of the center line.
The turnaround point was in Old Sacramento. A view of what locals are calling the Darth Vader Building:
This is the nicest and friendliest group of people ever, but I wish I could help them improve their bicycling-in-traffic skills. However, one other Bike Hiker, also concerned about safety, told me they are “uneducable.” =(
Nevertheless, this ride was a lot of fun. Larry was a great ride leader. We rode a total of 17 miles through all kinds of alleys. One of my favorites was Eggplant Alley. Later Justin told me all the alleys have names now although there are very few signs. The best art work was downtown on Kayak, near K St.
Urban Cycling class
The City of Sacramento puts on a basic bicycling-in-the-city class once a month. I was curious to see how it aligned with what I teach in Project Ride Smart. 
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