Course: Teach Your Child to Ride a Bike

10:54 AM EDT on September 1, 2007

Help your kids learn a life-long skill this back-to-school season! Parents can bring their children and their bikes and helmets to these free, fun events, and they'll be amazed at how easily their children learn how to ride a two-wheeler. This course is recommended for ages 5 and up.

It is an easy, hands-free, crash-free, and low-stress way for parents to get their children rolling on two wheels. This Bike New York class teaches the basics of balancing, starting, stopping, and steering a bike. Almost 600 kids and their parents have learned this method of riding already this year.

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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