Press Coverage
Over the past 30+ years, Susan McLucas and her other teachers have been quietly teaching people to ride bicycles, but occasionally the press takes an interest.
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Two 45-second radio spots by Matt Shearer, Feb 10, 2022.
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By her own admission, when Joanna Lydgate heard there was a woman in Somerville who gives kids bike-riding lessons, this is what she thought: “That seems like a total racket. I can teach my own kid to ride a bike.”
Then Lydgate remembered that she and her husband had in fact already tried to teach their 5-year-old to ride, on multiple occasions, and that tears — not a life skill — had come of it. Suddenly, hiring someone else to do the teaching didn’t seem so wrong. (click to read full article) 2017 BIFF critics discuss
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Bicycle Riding School - Never Too Old to Learn "A Somerville woman teaches adults, more than two thousand so far, how to bicycle." (BUTV10, Nov. 2011) |
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CBS Sunday Morning "Pedal Power"
"Pedal Power (click to read transcript) is coming into its own these days, as Americans of all ages are coming to realize biking can be practical, economical, and good clean fun - or should we say, good GREEN fun?"
National Public Radio: The "Bicycle Whisperer"
Summer weather and high gas prices have bicycle shops busy this season. And adults that never learned how to ride are enrolling in beginner cycling classes in record numbers. Here in New England, Susan McLucas, also known as The "Bicycle Whisperer" (click to listen to program) teaches nervous adults at the Bicycle Riding School in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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CJAD Montreal, Canada
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Boston Globe "Start at Any Age"
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"Finding midlife balance–on two wheels"
From Harvard scholar to Caribbean islander, many adults share an embarrassing secret: They can't ride a bike. Read article.
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