Streamlined Smart Cycling course for NCCC members only

[karlos]

Since a Smart Cycling certificate is required for all ride leaders, Bob Hanlon and I are offering a special Smart Cycling session geared toward NCCC members. Although about 25% of the club have their certificate, we are inviting those who still want to go through the course to join in this special session for a new ride leader.

The biggest drawback that most find for the Smart Cycling program is the 9hrs of your time it normally requires. For this special session, the 3 hour classroom part can be done online, including taking a quiz to show you learned the material. This should take around 2 hours and it needn't be done in one sitting. After that, we would like a short Zoom, less than an hour, to go over some CA-specific things which are not covered in the national online program by the League of American Bicyclists (LAB).

The second biggest roadblock for NCCC members is that the 6hr road session is usually a Saturday and who wants to miss an NCCC ride, instructors included? We will find a Sunday afternoon for the road session, which also won't take 6 hours because we save an hour by passing the quiz ahead of time and if the class size is small, we can get through the time on bikes more quickly.

If this sounds like you want to join, just email Karl at rudnick.cooper@gmail.com so we can get you started.

Class size is limited to 8 and this will be free!
Happy Holidays
Karl and Bob, certified LAB Cycling Instructors (LCIs)

[Daniel Upton]

This is a great offer for a valuable learning experience. When I took it, the on-bike city-riding section had plenty of safety aha moments.