Students learn bike safety and skills at South Lake Tahoe Middle School
Submitted by paula on Sat, 06/10/2017 - 9:08pm
Local bicycling advocates spent Friday at South Tahoe Middle School, teaching students about bike safety, bike skills and how to do repairs on bikes.
As part of the 12th annual Tahoe Bike Challenge, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the Lake Tahoe Bike Coalition and the Community Mobility Group put the students through a series of stations learning how to fit helmets correctly, how to do hand signals, a skills rodeo, the parts of a bike and how to fix a flat and do other repairs and an obstacle course.
Liberty Utilities, TAMBA (Tahoe Area Mountain Bike Association) and Barton Health also participated.
The volunteers saw all students during six periods with up to 150 kids per session.
Student groups from around the District have been has been participating in the two-week long bike to school and work challenge, logging their mileage as they get out of cars and get healthy. For more on the bike challenge, visit http://www.tahoebike.org/tahoe-bike-challenge/tahoe-bike-challenge-information/.
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