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If you or someone you know doesn't know how to ride a bicycle...

we can help!

The Bicycle Riding School specializes in teaching adults to ride bicycles, most of whom never learned as children. We organize group and individual lessons and also teach through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

We have taught about 2,000 people in the last 20 years with only about 3 people who weren't able to make it work. Virtually everyone who really puts their mind to it, and gives it the time it needs, can learn to ride a bicycle. One of our students has one leg and did very well. Some of our students are in their 60's and 70's and beyond. Of course, we also teach children.

The two teachers at the school are Susan McLucas and Pata Suyemoto. Susan has been teaching riding for over 20 years and has taught about 2,000 people. Pata has taught for a year.

One interesting part of the last class before each graduation is hearing our student's stories of how they came to grow up without riding a bicycle. These memories are sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, but everyone agrees that they are glad they got beyond whatever it was that had been holding them back. We also talk about buying a bike, safety and eventually starting to ride on roads.

We organize group and individual lessons and also teach through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Individual lessons are $20-$40 a lesson, your choice, and are an hour and a half. The Cambridge Center classes are $92 for the four lessons and you can rent a bike for $5 a class. One advantage of the group classes is the camaraderie. Many of our former students from the classes continue to ride together.

Whichever way you choose, you can do it!

We have helmets, knee and elbow pads, gloves and a time-tested method which allows most people to learn without ever falling at all. (Maybe one in six of our students falls in the course of the usual four lessons.)

We teach mostly adults, but are happy to teach kids too -- we have taught a few dozen children.

We have about 20 bicycles, so that people can find something that fits them. (Lots of people have had scary or painful bike learning times because of bikes that were too big for them, short people especially, because the average bike would be too big.)

We rent out the bikes outside of classes for $10. We're close to Linear Park, which connects to the Minuteman Bike Path.

If you don't ride a bike, it'll only get harder the longer you wait. If a friend of yours doesn't ride, you can get them a gift certificate or just have them call us. We'll probably be able to convince them that they'd like to learn. But they're the one that has to want to do it.

Street Riding: We sometimes teach individual lessons in negotiating traffic but we mainly refer people to MassBike, which organizes street riding skills classes. Go to MassBike.org, choose Bicycling Skills and then Skills Classes to see what is coming up in the way of street riding classes.

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