[Bike Instructor] Okay, go.
[Kids pedalling bikes]
[Isis] I really do like to go bike riding.
And it's very calming.
You just get like this sense of peace.
[Birds chirping, a bike going by]
[Ikar] But what if I fall?
[Isis] I got you, you won't fall.
My daughter has always been so independent.
I think she taught herself how to ride a bike.
But my son was actually
a totally different story.
[Wheels rolling on pavement]
We happened to have an adult size bike at the time,
and I told him, 'Look, this is how you're going to pedal.'
So when he saw me actually riding a bike,
he's just like, 'Wait, you can ride a bike?'
I said, 'Yeah, I learned when I was little.'
'But I've never seen you do it before.'
Oh, sorry, kiddo.
But yes, I know how to ride a bike.
[Wheels rolling]
He was shocked that we knew how to ride bikes
because, I mean, we don't do it very often,
but it goes back to just not really having a whole lot of places to do it in.
There's another car.
[Car driving by]
[Cars driving]
All of a sudden, there's just this boom out here.
Parents are a little bit more reluctant
to have kids go out and be on the bikes
whenever we have all that traffic going.
[cars continue driving]
[children playing]
I'm the parent community liaison here at Popham Elementary.
And sometimes I'll have to look a student up
and I'll see that they'll live like the next street down.
And I'm like, Wait a minute, I've never seen you outside.
How is it that you you live here and I've never seen you, you know?
Hopefully with all this development, it'll help.
Maybe we'll even get bike lanes out here,
but I'm not going to hold my breath.
You know, our kiddos out here really do need
as many opportunities brought to them as possible.
When they offered the bike safety course
for our third through fifth graders, I jumped at the chance.
[Bike instructor] So what we do for step number two,
two fingers for step number two take up like that.
Put it on your eyebrow, slide that helmet forward.
So it just touches that top finger.
[Isis] How's that feel?
Good.
It was called the Ghisallo Bike Initiative.
They basically came and gave safety classes
to our third through fifth graders.
They showed them how to let others, other people know,
you know, if they were turning left, if they were turning right,
how to stop.
[Bike instructor] One, two, three!
[Students] Left turn!
[Bike instructor] What if I'm going to turn right?
[Isis] Basically being able to communicate with,
you know, either pedestrians or drivers on the road
to make sure that they didn't get hit
or run over.
[Students] I won!
[Students pedalling bikes]
[Isis] You got it dude!
Come on.
It was so great to see their little faces.
We've had nothing but just great feedback from the classes.
The kids had fun.
They learned things that they didn't know.
It was really great to see them just enjoying
being outside and learning.
You can do it.
So I'm hoping that with this knowledge,
they'll have more confidence to ride their bikes.
They love it.
So, yeah, it's really nice to see the kids having fun.
Good job, Natalie.
That's really what I'd like to see.
Just more kids, you know, playing outside with their friends.