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Instructor outlines e-bike safety program for school riders; local districts require training stickers
Summary
An instructor who runs ebikesense.com described a classroom-and-practice e-bike safety program for students and noted that several local school districts, including El Segundo, now require a safety-training sticker before students may ride to school and park on campus.
An instructor who operates ebikesense.com described a youth e-bike safety program at an El Segundo City meeting, saying the course combines classroom instruction, helmet and brake checks, and three on-bike drills intended to teach students how to ride safely around traffic.
"I developed a pretty comprehensive program ... where we're gonna do a classroom piece, interactive classroom piece where we talk about the rules of the road, e bike specific dangers, gives kids a a chance to ask questions, tell stories, and then we'll go outside, we'll do a safety bike and helmet check, and then follow that we'll go out to the parking lot and do 3 specific e bike drills," the instructor said.
The instructor said the three on-bike drills are a scanning drill, a…
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