#WinterBike friends -- how do your kids keep their legs warm on the #BikeToSchool?
My 4th grader is riding her own bike now so a blanket is no longer an option.
Also taking recommendations for handlebar mitts for small people.
Last day of #school. The kid's biking all the way home on her own for the first time.
We've been practicing for this day for weeks. She knows the rules, knows how to handle her bike, knows to look out for drivers because they're not looking out for her.
We can do this.
If you are out on the roads this afternoon, PLEASE keep your eyes peeled for happy kids about to embark on the best summer of their lives.
Yesterday, this cool kid--with her bright red bike, hot pink helmet, dual blinkies, and rotating rainbow wheel lights--waited at a high-viz crosswalk in a school zone while 7 adult drivers pretended not to see her.
This morning we met up with 6 (SIX!) other #KidsOnBikes during our ride to school. Six smiling, happy, slightly flushed faces, all bright eyed and ready to start their day.
The activity, socialization, & independence these kids are getting is no small thing. The change in my kid's resilience & attitude since she's been riding her own bike to school has been remarkable.
When we deny kids #SafeRoutesToSchool, we deny them a huge part of their life.
This guy. Just ever-so-nonchalantly rolls the stop sign and then overtakes my kid and me in the middle of an intersection as we biked home from school.
You wouldn't do this to someone in a car. Don't do it to someone on a bike.
I'm not sure who's more excited about tomorrow morning's #BikeBus -- my kid or me. I've heard from 8 families who are definitely coming, and evidently kids are talking it about it all over school.
I'm bracing for the most glorious, chaotic morning I've had in a very long time.
Every morning, my kid and I #bike to #school, riding side-by-side down a neighborhood connector road with no pedestrian or bicycle facilities. Lots of people in cars drive past us. They give us space and don't yell about not riding single file.
I like to think this is a sign of the beginnings of a culture shift in #ChapelHillNC.
Leaving our neighborhood this morning enroute to school, we met another biking family. They'd driven past us all year, and decided this week to try biking themselves. And they're doing it and loving it!
“An organized group of children and adults riding together on a set route” with a “bus driver” guiding the group and kids getting on the “bus” riding their bikes.
Want to start one? Ask Mike our local expert—schoolbikebus.ca👇
Makes my heart sing to see these two friends biking home from school together.
Makes my stomach turn to see the crappy infrastructure they've been provided.
We are failing our children when we refuse to provide them safe, dignified streets.