{"id":15532,"date":"2019-05-29T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58130"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:48:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:48:51","slug":"annual-bike-rodeo-teaches-students-skills-etiquette-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/annual-bike-rodeo-teaches-students-skills-etiquette-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual bike rodeo teaches students skills, etiquette, safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.0498281786942\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-58130-638\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0396-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0396-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Bike rodeo coordinator and P.E. teacher Maggie Keller said the kids really enjoy the chance to be active and ultimately use these skills for other events, such as the fourth-grade bike around town.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.45378151260504\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.0756302521008\">\n<p><strong>Bike rodeo coordinator and P.E. teacher Maggie Keller said the kids really enjoy the chance to be active and ultimately use these skills for other events, such as the fourth-grade bike around town.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0396-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0356-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0356-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | One station focused on trail etiquette and emergency stopping to help prepare kids to explore Grand County's trails.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.2924528301887\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"6.8930817610063\">\n<p><strong>One station focused on trail etiquette and emergency stopping to help prepare kids to explore Grand County\u2019s trails.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0356-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0371-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0371-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | Children are taught basic bike maintenance at the rodeo, including tire pressure and adjusting the seat height.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.85526315789474\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.6973684210526\">\n<p><strong>Children are taught basic bike maintenance at the rodeo, including tire pressure and adjusting the seat height.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0371-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0391-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0391-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | A student practices balance and control of her bike by riding in and out of the green cones.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.2518796992481\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"6.6766917293233\">\n<p><strong>A student practices balance and control of her bike by riding in and out of the green cones.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0391-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0386-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0386-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | A volunteer first responder teaches children bike signals for left, right and stop.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.82258064516129\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.4032258064516\">\n<p><strong>A volunteer first responder teaches children bike signals for left, right and stop.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0386-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0387-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0387-1024x681.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com | While most children bring their own bikes to the rodeo, Keller said the school offers up donated bikes to students who don't have one to use for the day. She encouraged families and community members to donate their used bikes so that they can continue to have them for the children.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10.257668711656\">\n<p><strong>While most children bring their own bikes to the rodeo, Keller said the school offers up donated bikes to students who don\u2019t have one to use for the day. She encouraged families and community members to donate their used bikes so that they can continue to have them for the children.<\/strong><br \/>McKenna Harford \/ <a href=\"mailto:mharford@skyhinews.com\">mharford@skyhinews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/DSC_0387-1024x681.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/annual-bike-rodeo-teaches-students-skills-etiquette-safety\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/annual-bike-rodeo-teaches-students-skills-etiquette-safety\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a county home to the mountain bike capital of America, it makes sense to start teaching children bike skills at an early age, which is where Granby Elementary School\u2019s annual bike rodeo comes in.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, students shuffled from station to station learning everything from bike maintenance, first aid and summer safety to emergency stopping, trail etiquette, balance and control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to teach the kids how to do these things safely within their environment,\u201d said Maggie Keller, bike rodeo coordinator and P.E. teacher. \u201cI\u2019m a biker and it\u2019s a gateway to getting around. It\u2019s freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Typically, students in first through third-grade participate, but because the event was rescheduled due to weather, only first and third graders took part this year.<\/p>\n<p>School staff and first responders from the Granby Police Department, Grand County EMS, Grand Lake and Grand Fire departments, Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Grand County Animal Care and Control helped man each station and teach kids the bike laws and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Community members Diane and Lucy Wettersten helped sell helmets ahead of the event and the Fraser Winter Park Police Department donated funds to pay for helmets for children who couldn\u2019t afford them. Some bikes were also provided thanks to community members who donated them to the school district.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from imparting important bike skills and knowledge to students, Keller said she also hopes the bike rodeo helps teach the children that being active can also be fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome kids have improved their skills, so they\u2019re better riders, they can ride safely in our community, it\u2019s fun and it\u2019s promoting an active and healthy lifestyle, which to me is the end all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the students will get the chance to apply the skills they learned at the rodeo when they participate in the town ride as fourth graders and when they begin learning mountain bike skills in fifth grade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/annual-bike-rodeo-teaches-students-skills-etiquette-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike rodeo coordinator and P.E. teacher Maggie Keller said the kids really enjoy the chance to be active and ultimately use these skills for other events, such as the fourth-grade bike around town.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com One station focused on trail etiquette and emergency stopping to help prepare kids to explore Grand County\u2019s trails.McKenna Harford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 02:44:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}