Babylon Village Hosts Bike Rodeo To Teach Kids Bicycle Safety

BABYLON, NY—Some young Babylon Village residents brushed up on their bicycle safety skills at the first-ever "Babylon Village Bike Rodeo." The free event was organized by the Babylon Village Bicycle Advisory Committee in honor of National Bicycle Safety Month.

Children in second to sixth grades attended the one-hour clinic at the Park Ave. basketball courts on Wednesday night, where volunteers from the committee and representatives from the Long Island Coalition for Transportation Safety and Transit Solutions checked the young riders' bikes for safety. The kids got a reminder on rules of the road before trying out an obstacle course designed to help them practice bike safety.

Babylon Village Trustee Robyn Silvestri runs the advisory committee and she told Patch that the group was formed in 2019 "at the suggestion of a resident to promote safe bicycling—things like examining if and where bike lanes could work."

Babylon Village plans to promote more safe biking at the second-annual Village Bike Parade on September 25.