Bike to School
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FBO encourages parents, teachers, and administrators to support and encourage (or accompany) students to bike to school more. We celebrate our younger bike commuters on this day with Bike to School activities.
- A “Golden Sprocket” award will be given to 4 local schools with the highest participation rate of students riding to school that day.
Childhood obesity is a serious problem in our society and biking to school can play a large role in establishing healthy life-long habits to make our children and our community healthier. It’s also fun, feels great, and can be valuable family time.
For this year’s Bike to School Day, four “Golden Sprocket” trophies will be awarded to the schools with the largest percentage of bike riders in the following categories: High Schools, Schools with enrollments of 400+, Schools with enrollments of 200-399, and Schools with enrollment under 200.
We will have on-site representatives counting the number of bikers on campus on the morning of Tuesday, June 5th. All students who ride throughout the week are encouraged to log-in to the website and register as bike-to-school participants every day; however, winners of this one day challenge will be determined through the individual school’s bicycle counts.
The school with the most participants through the on-line daily entries will be recognized on our website along with the winners of the Bike-to Work challenge. The winners of the Tuesday Challenge will be able to show off their shiny Golden Sprocket trophies for the next year.
Please e-mail BTWW@flagstaffbiking.org with any questions.
New Helmet Law: Helping to keep kids safe
As of January 1, 2010, the City of Flagstaff has adopted a mandatory helmet ordinance for children under the age of 18 riding bicycles. Follow this link for information on the ordinance, including background information and frequently asked questions.
http://www.flagstaff.az.gov/index.aspx?NID=1582