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Bicycle Rodeo is a safety clinic that helps teach young kids the importance of riding a bicycle and what safety precautions they need to achieve to be have a safe time while riding a bicycle. Bicycle rodeos are usually run by local police departments. Police Chief at the Portland Police Department Rosanne M. Sizer said: “It’s important that our children understand bicycle safety.” “This is an opportunity for area youth to learn important skills and in the process get to know some of our bicycle, traffic, and reserve officers.”[1]


The Name

The Kiwanis clubs used to be the only ones involved with the rodeos and they called them bicycle lectures or seminars. When other groups got involved with them and they started to grow so they changed the name to bicycle rodeos because it sounded better to the kids.

About The Rodeo

Bike Rodeos are usually for the age group of around age 4-13. The activities that are provided are suitable for each age group so that no one is bored during the event.

Each rodeo usually starts out with a short lecture on bike safety and then followed by a written exam so test the kid’s knowledge of bicycle use.

Each rodeo has some type of a road course; this is usually the most fun part of the course for the kids. Some rodeos have a little more funding so they actually build a small town for the kids to ride around in as if it were real. This small town is called Safety Town. Throughout the town there are real life situation like red lights, stop signs, pedestrians crossing the streets, intersections and lots of other life like situations for the kids to learn how to handle. Rodeos are a popular place for businesses to come out and set up booths for the people to come to and see what they have. Some of the more popular booths are things that have to do with bike. There are a lot of bike shops that come out to sell people good bikes for their kids. Some of the bigger rodeos even have radio stations come out and play music to make the event more fun. Rodeos are a fun way to spend the day with your kids, and teach your kids safety tips at the same time.

Eight Different Stations

In a typical bike rodeo there are eight main types of stations that the kids have to go through to pass the course. Each station has its own course.

The main objective in these courses is to make sure that each kid knows how to operate their bike correctly. These courses each have different stations that will teach kids the main things they need to know to ride a bike. The main stations are: mounting and dismounting, changing direction and turning in circles, steering through tight spaces, weaving, the ability to stop, turning around, riding the bike very slow while maintaining balance, and the last one is tight turns.

Safety

Every Bicycle rodeo has some type of a safety course. Most of the bicycle rodeos start out each course with the safety check because it is the most important. The most common safety check is the helmet fit, bike fit, and the ABC quick check. The ABC quick check is checking for air in the tires, checking to see if the breaks work, and making sure the chains are on properly.

References

http://www.portlandonline.com/police/index.cfm?a=130889&c=43250

Sources

  1. ^ http://www.portlandonline.com/police/index.cfm?a=130889&c=43250
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