Austin Cycling Association

If your answer to any of these questions is “yes”, you should take Traffic Skills 101, the League of American Bicyclists’ street cycling course for adults.

• Do you want to ride your bike but are afraid of traffic?
• Are you uncertain of your ability to handle small mechanical problems like flat tires?
• Have you not ridden since childhood, and aren’t comfortable choosing a bicycle for adult use?
• Is your bike collecting rust and dust in the garage while your car continues to burn expensive gasoline every day?
• Are you an experienced cyclist who would like to learn how to get more courtesy and respect from motorists?
   

  Traffic Skills 101 will help you ride safely and effectively — to work, to the store, around your neighborhood or around the state. Most of us were taught to ride a bike by a parent when we were very small, and our bike education ended at that time. In fact, we were simply taught how to ride without falling down too often; but few of us were ever taught how to drive our bicycle in traffic. Traffic Skills 101 fills that gap. It is Driver’s Ed for cyclists. Traffic Skills 101 is taught by League-certified instructors, and the curriculum covers everything,including bike selection, simple maintenance, fixing a flat, and strategies for riding a bike safely and confidently.

Traffic Skills 101 is taught to very small classes (generally 5 to 10 students) in two sessions: four hours on a Friday evening and five hours on a Saturday morning.

The Friday-evening session is classroom work;
the Saturday session is in two parts:
parking lot safety drills, and a ride through Austin streets under the eye of one or more instructors.
Tuition is $65, which includes the textbook and class handouts.