BATH — The Bath Recreation Department, Bath Area Family YMCA and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine will hold a six-session “Get Back on Your Bike” course beginning Wednesday.
The course is designed to encourage adults to try bicycling as an alternative form of transportation, according to a release, and “to take advantage of Bath’s uniquely compact urban layout and to promote the economic, health and environmental benefits of biking.”
“We think the city is perfectly set up for more bike transportation with secure bike racks and all retail and service facilities from soup to nuts concentrated in one small area,” Robert McChesney, chairman of the Bath Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, said in the release.
The course is designed for adults who know how to ride but haven’t done so for a long time. It includes rules of the road pertaining to bicycles, bike and helmet fit, and strategies for safe riding as well as sessions on bike maintenance and repair. The course concludes with two onroad sessions.
“Given rising gas prices and the fact that 40 percent of all destinations are less than two miles from home, which is a very bike-able distance and can often be done faster on a bike than by car, we think this course comes at a very good time for people who are looking for ways to beat the gas prices and maybe get some health benefit in the process,” McChesney said.
Sessions will run from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays from April 25 to May 30. Registration costs $ 20 and includes a tool kit.
To register, call 443-4112 or 443-8360.
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