After cancellation of a regular course and after some e-mailing around Charissa managed to score a CAN-bike “Cycling Freedom for Women” course just for the two of us. We are not so greedy as to wish to keep it all to ourselves, so if you are interested, please let me or Charissa know. It’s $80 for a full day course and it will be held on August 14th. You need to bring a legal bike (i.e. have a bell on it), a helmet and water.

I’ve taken a similar course when I was 10, though I suppose at the time it was more of a YU-GO-bike course (yes, this pun is the principal reason for this post). It was very useful and we even got little licences that allowed us to bike on the street unsupervised. Of course, by the time I actually got around to biking unsupervised, I was old enough to legally do so anyway rendering the licence moot. Nevertheless, I did posses a legal cycling licence at 10.

I’ve been reading about CAN-bike courses for a bit and the people touting them swear that they are useful to experienced cyclists so I hope I will not be too bored. I do have some finer points of traffic logistics to iron out anyhow. I am particularly looking forward to the portion of the class dealing with biking with and supervising children. You would not believe how many kids I see in front of Stephen Leacock school cycling the wrong way in traffic. Ok, just six, but that is six more than there ought to be. These kids probably never biked with their parents or their parents were not quite up on their cycling in traffic foo. In any case, I would not want to teach my kids bad habits so I hope that this course proves useful.