Training & Safety

• Training and Safety
  CAN Bike is the Canadian Standard for cycling education and Public Health offers a full roster of CAN Bike courses for both adults and children from beginner (learn to ride) to instructor levels. Plans are currently underway for the spring 2010 CAN Bike courses. Please visit us again in 2010 for the full roster of courses. Email Marian Landry or call 905-688-8248 ext 7422 for more information.

• Publications:

  • Lighten Up
  • Sidewalk Cycling - Risky Business

• DVD: Enjoy the Ride: Essential Cycling Skills (by American League of Cyclists)
  
  This is a 20 minute DVD available at all main libraries in Niagara.
  
  This DVD is a review for adults who cycle on the road and parents who ride with their children. It reviews the rules of the road as they apply to cyclists, to increase their safety and comfort zone, so that they can enjoy cycling around Niagara.

Child Safety

Every year children fall off their bikes and have to go to the hospital. There are two important ways you can help your child be safe when they ride their bikes are:

• Make sure they wear a helmet every time they ride their bike. Their helmet should be the right size for their head and be put on the right way.
  
  
• Teach them how to safely ride their bikes and follow the rules of the road.

Be Aware. Be There.

Know what your child is doing.
Stay close so that you can help.