The Depot youth center is offering a 90-minute safety course for middle school students. It includes both classroom learning and an outdoor obstacle course where students can practice what they’ve learned.
— an announcement from The Depot
The class teaches essentials for sharing the road, including safety skills for pedestrians, bikers, e-bikers, and e-scooters, through both classroom learning and an outdoor obstacle course where students can practice what they’ve learned.
If You’re Signing Up …
Cost: $50 per student — includes bike helmet (for the first 100 attendees), bike reflectors, and other safety gear to keep your child visible and protected on the road. As always, scholarships are available.
Whether your child walks, bikes, or rides an e-scooter to school or around town, this course will help them build confidence and stay safe.
Course Dates:
• Sunday, Sept. 28: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, Sept. 29: 3 to 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 4: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
About the Instructors
Kate Haavik, a Darien resident since 2019, discovered her passion for cycling on a 321-mile NYC-to-DC ride in 2007 and later completed a 155-mile day ride to Montauk. A two-time Ironman finisher (Maryland 2016, Mont Tremblant 2017), she now finds her happiest rides pedaling down Brookside with her children, Henry (6) and Claire (4). Be sure to honk, wave—or join in—when you see them on the road.
Patrick Devlin grew up biking Darien’s trails and roads before switching to road cycling on long tours in the Catskills. After a break while raising his young family, he returned to Darien in 2019 and now pedals around town with his five children — first on a long-tail bike (often carrying four at once), and now with a red trailer in tow. With three of his kids riding independently, Patrick champions safer roads where pedestrians, bikers, and drivers respect and signal to one another.