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Bicycle Education Classes in Missouri
Taking one of the League of American Bicyclists BikeEd courses is a fun way to improve your bicycling skills and safety. Even experienced bicyclists learn a lot by taking the course.
MoBikeFed believes that bicyclist education is one of the best ways to improve bicyclist safety and strongly recommends the Bike Ed courses to all bicyclists.
A current listing of Bike Ed classes and instructors in Missouri is available on MoBikeFed's Bicycle Education page.Road rules and laws
| Safe bicycling does not come from chance or from a James Bond-like ability to do the impossible; instead, it comes from a knowledge of the traffic laws and careful attention to the behavior of others.--Ken Kifer
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- MoBikeFed's Bike Safety Tips for cyclists and motorists
- MoBikeFed Chair Bob Foster's 5 Tips for Cyclists and 5 Tips for Motorists
- Summaries of Missouri bicycle and pedestrian law
- A list of free printed bicycle/pedestrian safety education materials that can be ordered from MoDOT.
- What Motorists Should Know about driving with bicyclists
- The Right to Travel by Human Power
- Road Vogue by Wayne Pein--how to ride on the street, how road rules apply to cyclists.
Traffic safety skills
| Today, the greatest risk to children's health is not injury but lack of exercise.--Ken Kifer
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- Bicycling Street Smarts--a "driver's manual" for on-street bicycling. Bicycling Street Smarts has been distributed by MoDOT.
- BikeSense, a bicycle operator's manual by the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition
- Basic Principles of Traffic Cycling by the Canadian Cycling Association
- Bicycling Life's Safety Skills section
- MassBike's excellent Summary of Bicycle Riding and Traffic Skills
- How to Ride in Boston Traffic - Or Anywhere
- MoBikeFed's How to avoid being hit by a turning truck, including PDF handout
- Fred Oswald's Cycling Pages, with many excellent, printable, summaries of safe bicycling principles for children and for adults
- Gallery of Bicycle Driving Demonstrations--illustrated examples showing how to handle typical real-life traffic situations on a bicycle
- Riding at night--Why reflectors are not enough
- "Drive Your Bike" online video
- Ken Kifer has a series of excellent pages on Bicycle Traffic Safety and Cycling Health and Fitness. Here are a few of the highlights:
- Teaching Children How to Bicycle Safely
- How To Ride in Traffic
- The Seven Most Common Mistakes Made by Newbie Cyclists
- Is Cycling Dangerous?--"for those who obey the traffic laws, cycling is actually safer than traveling in an automobile."
- How to Run a Bike Rodeo--Bike Rodeos are a popular event at schools
- Teaching the Boy Scout Bicycling Merit Badge
- League of American Bicyclists suggestions for using recreational paths, "Sharing the Path"
- The International Mountain Biking Association's "Rules of the Trail"
Teaching kids
In teaching children to ride a bicycle, there are two important aspects:
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- Physical skills
- Teaching kids to ride by a bike, by bicycling guru Sheldon Brown
- Teaching a Kid to Bicycle from iBike.org
- Teaching kids, including early safety skills, from Bicycle Victoria
- Safety skills
- Age-appropriate bicycle safety education for children of various ages, from BicyclingInfo.org
- Bicycle Safety: What Every Parent Should Know (PDF format), a 4-page pamphlet from the Active Living Resource Center that tells parents in plain English the most important things to teach their children about bicycling safely
Group riding safety and skills
- MoBikeFed's group ride safety, including PDF handout
Bicycling commuting tips and advice
| You don't have be a tree-hugging car-hating eco-nut like me to ride your bike to work. . . . All you need to be is somebody who wants to exercise, save money, save gas, de-stress, and have fun. --CJ Silverio
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Health and safety facts and statistics
| [M]any people . . . think that bicycling is especially dangerous, not recognizing that cyclists travel more miles per fatality than pedestrians and more hours per fatality than passenger vehicle users.--Ken Kifer
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- Pedalling Health--medical research into the health benefits and safety issues related to cycling.
- How Safe is Riding a Bike?--by the Canadian Cycling Association
- Freedom from Fear by Mighk Wilson
- On-Street Bicycling Safety Fact Sheet
- Missouri bicycle-related statistics
MBF Events
February 16th
Bike/Ped Day at the Capitol
Jefferson City
March 9-11
National Bike Summit
Washington, DC
April 19th
Ride the Katy Trail
with MO Legislators
Jefferson City

