Now that you’ve kicked the training wheels (or if you’ve yet to make the transition) you can still make cycling safe and fun for everyone in the family. Our friends at Sustain Charlotte have put together a pretty sweet resource in the new Charlotte Family Bike Guide. It’s loaded with info on how to get kids of all ages interested, involved, and up on two wheels!
Learn to Ride in Good Company
Learn to Ride has been nominated for a 2018 Sustainability Award! We couldn’t do it without our sponsors, partners, and friends in Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, Bicycle Sport, Trips for Kids ReCyclery, well-run media + marketing, Unknown Bike & Brew, Crank Mafia, and so many volunteers. Thanks for your support and the recognition!
Learn to Ride on Charlotte Today!
LTR co-founder Dick Winters and Park & Rec’s Al Bangoura paid a visit to Charlotte Today this week!
Learn to Ride 2018 Schedule
Hundreds more children and adults will get the opportunity to learn an important life skill in 2018, as the award-winning Learn to Ride program announces its schedule for the new year!
Five new events will help riders of all ages kick their training wheels and roll to a healthier lifestyle using Learn to Ride’s proven “balance bike” method. More than 500 kids and adults learned to balance and pedal bikes at events around Mecklenburg County in 2017, and Learn to Ride is excited to bring their program to these places in the new year:
- January 20th Arbor Glen Recreation Center
- March 17th Winget Recreation Center
- May 12th Arbor Glen Recreation Center
- August 18th Wallace Pruitt Recreation Center
- October 27th MLK Middle School
“Learn to Ride” was named “Best Kids Cycling Event” in North Carolina for 2016 by Endurance Magazine, and was nominated for a 2017 Sustain Charlotte Award for Transportation.
Co-founder Dick Winters was also recently named winner of the Joe Cogdell Volunteer Service Award from Partners for Parks, for his advocacy of bicycling programs in Charlotte — especially programs for children, like Learn to Ride.
Learn to Ride Returns October 28th!
The “Learn to Ride” program that’s taught hundreds of children and adults to ride bicycles returns Saturday, October 28th this time to Berewick Recreation Center in southwest Charlotte.
Kids of all ages can kick the training wheels and roll to a healthier lifestyle using Learn to Ride’s proven “balance bike” method. “Learn to Ride” was named “Best Kids Cycling Event” in North Carolina for 2016 by Endurance Magazine, and has been nominated for a 2017 Sustain Charlotte Award for Transportation.
Congratulations are also in order for the program’s co-founder, Dick Winters, who recently won the Joe Cogdell Volunteer Service Award from Partners for Parks. Winters earned the honor for his advocacy of cycling programs in Charlotte — especially for programs for children, like “Learn to Ride.” Winters is the Built Environment and Safe Routes to School coordinator for the Mecklenburg County Health Department, and serves on several cycling and recreation committees, as well as Trips for Kids Charlotte and the Charlotte Re-Cyclery.
WHAT: Learn to Ride event
WHEN: Saturday, October 28, 2017, 11am – 1pm
WHERE: Berewick Recreation Center
5910 Dixie River Road, Charlotte
MORE INFO: www.learntorideCLT.com
*Participants are encouraged to bring their own bikes and helmets, although a few are available for loan.