Some would say we should all sing from the same sheet music. It is time that bike patrol gets treated with the seriousness it deserves. We have proven that bike patrol isn t just a fad, and we all know that bike patrol indeed works. Kathy Vonk and Lou Ann Hamblin have been surveying our members at the Police on Bikes conferences for several years. I know from my own training classes that students, and even sometimes instructors, lose their balance and fall.
Minor injuries are inevitable.
A bike is a single track vehicle that relies upon the rider to balance it. One student died from an apparent heart attack. The second fatality, just this summer, died two days after an off-road training ride during which he did an endo over the handlebars and fractured his neck. One of the primary reasons for training is to prevent serious injuries from falls and crashes. Having a qualified instructor who understands and enforces class safety guidelines is essential to the safety of the trainees, both during and after the training.