Seminar doubles certified League Cycling Instructors in Missouri

A seminar organized by MoBikeFed Education Chair Coy Hart and held in Springfield June 10-12, 2005, has more than doubled the number of LAB-certified League Cycling Instructors (LCIs) in Missouri.

The instructors are certified to teach LAB's Road I and Road II courses, their commuter courses, and Kids I and Kids II, for children and parents.

The seminar attract bicyclists from as far away as Topeka, Kansas, and Louisville, Kentucky.

Participants honed their teaching skills by teaching each other modules from the BikeEd curriculum, practiced scoring each other and giving constructive feedback in the classroom and on the road, and practiced both teaching and doing parking lot drills and on-road riding skills.

Potential LCIs must receive very close to a perfect score on the road riding portion of the test in order to become certified as an LCI.

The St. Louis Regional Bicycle Federation made a major effort to support the seminar. About half of STLBikeFed's board are now LCIs.

The Missouri Bicycle Federation now has three board members who are LCIs.

Find out more about the League of American Bicyclists BikeEd program here.

Find out more about League Cycling Instructor seminars here.

See a list of scheduled Road I classes in Missouri here.

See the complete list of Missouri LCIs here (as of 19 June, 2005, not yet updated to included those who recently complete the LCI certification class).