The BCI Board of Directors highly recommends that every member complete a bicycle safety and traffic skills class and become part of our Circle of Safety.

We encourage all Circle of Safety members to wear their wristbands on club rides, remember to use their traffic skills at all times and set a good example for others. 
We appreciate the time and effort BCI members have put in to become safer and more responsible bicycle riders. Circle of Safety members are listed below. Look for them next time you ride.

Safety Classes

Learn the rules of the road related to operating a bicycle on streets, roads, and paths in California. Learn about proper lane positioning, negotiating intersections and turn lanes, integrating your bicycle in the traffic flow, hazard and crash avoidance, and more. It will change the way you ride and lessen your odds of becoming a traffic statistic. These are the classes we recommend:

American Bicycling Education Association CYCLING SAVVY

Free online Essentials Short Course : Take the course on your own any time!
To help, you can read the course text off-line HERE but take the online version to see the videos

CYCLING SAVVY 3-part course
The Truth and Techniques of Traffic Cycling -- 3 hours (evening classroom) 
Train Your Bike -- 3 hours -- weekend morning on-bike skills
Tour of the City -- 3.5 hours -- weekend afternoon practice ride 

More information at http://cyclingsavvy.org/about/3-part-course/
and classes offered locally by the Orange County Bicycle Coalition
at http://ocbike.org/education/education-cyclingsavvy/

If you can’t find a class scheduled soon, at LEAST watch the free online courses offered by CyclingSavvy at https://cyclingsavvy.org/online-bicycle-education/

The Free Essentials course explains our best techniques for riding safely in traffic, and the Free Club Essentials course explains how a CLUB can ride as a group more efficiently and safely.
Join for a Ride Awesome! membership and get access to Safety Basics and the Mastery Course.
If all of our riders took the time to watch and learn and practice these skills, we would all benefit.

League of American Bicyclists SMART CYCLING

Classroom --  4 hours -- weekday evening
On the bike -- 6 hours -- weekend morning/afternoon

More information at http://bikeleague.org/content/take-class 

Club Classes

If we can get 10 or more of our members together on the same weekend, we can get an instructor and schedule our own class…

NewB Classes

We periodically offer an brief basic class on cycling safely. legally, and in a group, including a short ride to demonstrate & practice.
See NewB classes for schedule & more details. There is also an extensive LIBRARY there with several documents reviewed as part of the class.

Skills Reward Program

GOLD Circle of Safety Members

Karen Lewis Cook
Mark Lien
Monica McCarthy
Bob McHenry

Qualify by attending and completing a second bicycle safety skills class, at the member’s expense (such as CyclingSavvy’s 3-part Course or the League of American Bicyclists Smart Cycling class, or other class as approved by the BCI Board of Directors).

• Receive a gift card from the club for a Road ID, and your name added to the “Gold Circle of Safety” registry above.

SILVER CIRCLE OF SAFETY MEMBERS

Qualify by attending and completing a CyclingSavvy 3-part Course or a League of American Bicyclists Smart Cycling class, at the member’s expense.

• Receive a free BCI “Silver Circle of Safety” wristband, and your name added to the “Silver Circle of Safety” registry above.