The BCI Board of Directors highly recommends that every member complete a bicycle safety and traffic skills class and become part of our Circle of Safety.

We encourage all Circle of Safety members to wear their wristbands on club rides, remember to use their traffic skills at all times and set a good example for others. 
We appreciate the time and effort BCI members have put in to become safer and more responsible bicycle riders. Circle of Safety members are listed below. Look for them next time you ride.

Safety Classes

Learn the rules of the road related to operating a bicycle on streets, roads, and paths in California. Learn about proper lane positioning, negotiating intersections and turn lanes, integrating your bicycle in the traffic flow, hazard and crash avoidance, and more. It will change the way you ride and lessen your odds of becoming a traffic statistic. These are the classes:

American Bicycling Education Association CYCLING SAVVY 3-part course

The Truth and Techniques of Traffic Cycling -- 3 hours (evening classroom) 
Train Your Bike -- 3 hours -- weekend morning on-bike skills
Tour of the City -- 3.5 hours -- weekend afternoon practice ride 

More information at http://cyclingsavvy.org/about/3-part-course/
and classes offered locally by the Orange County Bicycle Coalition
at http://ocbike.org/education/education-cyclingsavvy/

League of American Bicyclists SMART CYCLING

Classroom --  4 hours -- weekday evening
On the bike -- 6 hours -- weekend morning/afternoon

More information at http://bikeleague.org/content/take-class 

Successfully complete a Cycling Savvy or Smart Cycling class, and you will become a member of BCI’s Circle of Safety, and receive a Circle of Safety wristband and a gift card from the club for a Road ID !

Club Classes

If we can get 10 or more of our members together on the same weekend, we can get an instructor and schedule our own class.

CIRCLE OF SAFETY PROGRAM
Safety Skills Reward Program

THROUGH A GENEROUS DONATION FROM SHIMANO CYCLING, THE BCI BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED-TIME OFFER, FOR CLUB MEMBERS ONLY:   Successfully complete the class and receive a FREE PAIR OF SHIMANO CYCLING GLASSES (valued at $85).

 Please note this offer is good only for current members in good standing who take a board-approved bicycle safety course, which the member has not taken before, and completes in 2016, while supplies of donated Shimano Cycling Eyewear last.

GOLD Circle of Safety Members

• Qualify by attending and completing a second bicycle safety skills class, at the member’s expense (such as CyclingSavvy’s 3-part Course or the League of American Bicyclists Smart Cycling class, or other class as approved by the BCI Board of Directors).
• Receive a free BCI “Gold Circle of Safety” wristband, and your name added to the “Gold Circle of Safety” registry below.
• Successfully complete the class and receive a FREE PAIR OF SHIMANO CYCLING GLASSES (valued at $85).

Karen Lewis Cook
Monica McCarthy
Bob McHenry
Randy Profeta

SILVER CIRCLE OF SAFETY MEMBERS

• Qualify by attending and completing a CyclingSavvy 3-part Course or a League of American Bicyclists Smart Cycling class, at the member’s expense.
• Receive a free BCI “Silver Circle of Safety” wristband, and your name added to the “Silver Circle of Safety” registry on the BCI web site.
• Successfully complete the class and receive a FREE PAIR OF SHIMANO CYCLING GLASSES (valued at $85).