Cycling Education

Achieving Maximum Safety and Courtesy – Your Responsibility

Like all physical activities, cycling carries with it a certain amount of risk. Although a bicycle is a relatively simple (yet elegant) machine, it operates in a complex environment. The cyclist can and must operate in a manner that minimizes to the greatest extent practicable the risk to him or her self, other cyclists, motorists, pedestrians, and others along the roadway or trail.

The Texas Heritage Cycling Experience requires as a condition of use of information from this site that the cyclists obey all applicable traffic laws, ride safely and defensively and extend courtesy to others on or along the road or trail to the greatest degree practicable.

The Texas Heritage Cycling Experience strongly recommends that cyclists, regardless of their level of skill or experience, constantly educate themselves, formally and informally, on safety and courtesy on the road and trail.

Through the BikeTexas Safe Routes to School Program, the Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC or BikeTexas) is training teachers to teach children bicycle safety. TBC is also formally working with parents and other community leaders to make neighborhood streets safe for children to walk and bike to school. This program is based on the international Safe Routes to School program that began in Denmark in the1970s. Whether you have school-aged children or are interested in helping the next generation get started on bicycles, see the Bike Texas website to find out how you can participate in this program.

The League of American Bicyclists has EXCELLENT BICYCLE SAFETY COURSES in their Road I-II and Kid I-II series. These courses are taught by League-Certified-Instructors (LCIs) who have many years of experience and who teach a time-proven curriculum that is constantly revised, updated and improved.

On www.bikeleague.org, click on “Bicycle Advocacy and Education Center” and then “Find an LCI in Your State” for more information. The Texas Heritage Cycling Experience URGES YOU to sign up yourself, your family, and your friends for these courses. The fee is typically in the neighborhood of $50 per person (depending on overhead) for about eight hours of instruction that includes about two hours of on-the-road practice. (Note: The Texas Heritage Cycling Experience derives no financial benefit from promotion of these courses.)

We have heard one Texas LCI announce that if any person of any riding experience level takes that LCI’s Road I course and DOES NOT learn something new, that person will get their money back. To our knowledge to date, no one has been able to claim the refund!

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