Join ICan Bike Alpharetta and City of Alpharetta Recreation, Parks, Cultural Services for a week long bicycle camp where children with special needs learn to ride a bike! Tons of volunteer opportunities are available! Must register to attend!
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Alpharetta Bike Riding Clinic: Ages 3-10
Balanced Kids Atlanta bike riding classes teach kids how to confidently ride on two wheels in a fun and supportive environment! This one-time clinic is designed to help kids learn the fundamentals of riding a bike while gaining confidence and learning a life long skill. Kids will play games, experience an obstacle course, and other activities focused on skill building through fun. Class is geared towards beginners, ages 3-10! Bikes are provided or you can bring your own. More information.
Trails & Ales Greenway Bike Ride
Bring your friends and family to join us for a bike ride on Alpharetta’s scenic Big Creek Greenway. Meet at Jekyll Brewing’s Marconi Drive location for an out and back ride. Chose your own distance between 1 and 16 miles round trip. Post-ride social at Jekyll with food truck and ice-cold beverages! More information. More information.
Bike Alpharetta Fun Greenway “Zen” Ride
Do It Your ZEN Self Rides are an informal ride at your own pace on the Alpharetta Greenway. While not an organized group ride, start at Jekyll Brewing Taproom (on Marconi Drive, park on side of building) and look for others doing a ZEN ride, walk or run, then gather back at the brewery. Meets FIRST and THIRD Fridays of each month from Mar 5 to Nov 5. Reminder – ride at your own risk, wear a helmet, no ear buds, and call out passing on the left. More information.
Bike Alpharetta Fun Greenway “Zen” Ride
Do It Your ZEN Self Rides are an informal ride at your own pace on the Alpharetta Greenway. While not an organized group ride, start at Jekyll Brewing Taproom (on Marconi Drive, park on side of building). More information.
iCan Bike 2020
The iCan Bike program teaches children and adults with disabilities how to ride a two-wheeled bicycle without the need for adaptive devices — in other words, they can learn to ride a bicycle just like anyone else.
The Bike Patrol Unit in Alpharetta has been involved with this program for the past eight years, and has had the pleasure of hosting it for the past three years. Our camp fills up every year (with a maximum of 40 children) and usually has a waiting list around the same size. The participants that come to our camp often travel from many states away just to get the chance to learn to ride; riding is not guaranteed when a rider attends our camp, but our success rate has historically been around 95 percent.
In order to make this program a success, it takes a small army of volunteers usually numbering the hundreds. The way the camp works is by breaking every day of the week into five time slots or sessions. The session times are listed below:
8:30-9:45 a.m.
10:05-11:20 a.m.
11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
2-3:15 p.m.
3:35-4:50 p.m.
Riders and volunteers alike sign up for the time slot (or multiple slots if you are a volunteer) and only attend those time sessions Monday through Friday June 22nd-June 26th 2020.
If you are a first time, volunteer then we ask that you attend a brief training session on June 21 at Alpharetta City Hall at 5 p.m.
All volunteers have to do it “spot” the riders as they learn to ride, it is extremely easy and very rewarding as our volunteers get to be a part of teaching a child to do something that they never thought was possible.
Adopt a Mile with Bike Alpharetta
Help Bike Alpharetta clean up Cumming Street. in Alpharetta. Meet at Manning Oaks Elementary School at 10 a.m. Clean up is usually done cleaning by noon. It’s tons of fun, and for a good cause.