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An East Bay Youth Bicycle Program


Cycles of Change works to improve the health and sustainability of our neighborhoods by increasing the use of bicycles as transportation, connecting youth with the extraordinary living systems of our local area, and building a diverse community of visionary young leaders. The organization began in 1998 at Roosevelt Middle School in East Oakland and has grown steadily to become a team of ten program directors and eighteen youth interns operating programs at twelve East Bay public schools. Cycles’ programs are as follows:

  1. Beginners Urban Riding: Teaches the basics of safe urban riding to small groups of new students and community members.
  2. Advanced field trips program: Connects youth and community members to places of ecological, historical, and cultural significance, expanding the dimensions of their world.
  3. Summer touring program: After completing advanced field
trips, only the most advanced young students go bike touring for 5 to 8 days each year to different places in California.
  1. Urban Sustainability Program: We developed a six-week course for science classes called “Watershed Guides”

By taking part in Cycles’ programs, youth gain strong and lasting connections to the living world and the larger community. These connections become a foundation for reshaping the relationships between people and land to make our urban neighborhoods healthy and sustainable.

EVENTS

Bike To School/Work Day, May 15 2008

National Bike to Work Day is coming up on Thursday May 15!
At Cycles of Change we call it “Bike to School Day”.

This Year Cycles of Change and the Alameda County Safe Routes to School Partnership are sponsoring 12 Bike to School Day Energizer Stations from 7am to 9am on Thursday May 15, 2008.

Some of these Energizer Stations are just for the students, others are for the general public.

Celebrate Bike to School Day with us by Riding Your Bike!
If you are looking for volunteer opportunities we need help stuffing Bike to Work/School Day Bags on May 12, from 12 – 5pm.

Call or e-mail us if you are interested in helping at 510-595-4625 or Email - Safe Cycles

To see our list of energizer stations below and more info click here.

NEWS

New office Cycles of Change location

Cycles of Change new office is at the Long Haul, located on 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. Long Haul

New bike cage at Roosevelt Middle school

Roosevelt Middle school is inaugurating a new bike cage for students to leave their bikes during school and encourage them to bike to school.

Download Bike to School (pdf file), 624KB size