Six members took advantage of the streamlined Smart Cycling (https://northcountycycleclub.org/smf/index.php?topic=3246.0) course recently. Some of them took it to serve as ride leaders as well. Since all are experienced riders, they earned their diploma with about 2 hours online on their own time, a one hr Zoom to go over some local and group specifics, with the road session and drills running only 3 hours on a Sunday - no Saturday ride interruption to students or instructors. Bob Hanlon and I may offer this again in the future to get even more NCCC members on board (currently about 20% of NCCC have gone through the course).
Congratulations Pat Murray, Cody Barnes, Frank Wheeler, Howard Garfinkel, Melonee Levine, Rob Brown!
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congrat's to all riders!
Congratulations to the members that completed the course!
I would be definitely interested to take the course!
Quote from: Helen on January 28, 2025, 10:10:12 AMI would be definitely interested to take the course!
here ya go: https://sdbikecoalition.org/full-calendar?category=Smart%20Cycling (https://sdbikecoalition.org/full-calendar?category=Smart%20Cycling)
Just to be clear. The reference that Steve gives through the SD County Bike Coalition is for the full 9 hr course given by Pete Penseyres and Howard Lagrange in Oceanside. It is still a great course but many people have trouble with the time commitment and there is fluff in there that is wasted time for experienced riders. Nevertheless, I took the full 9 hrs and got a lot out of it. If people are interested in a repeat of the streamlined NCCC version, we may offer it again if there is a demand for it. Two ways to skin the cat.