Twenty miles an hour. Seventy pounds.
Most kids get handed one with no more instruction than “wear your helmet.”
They are in traffic now.
Whether or not anybody taught him what that means.
Nothing on the road until they have earned it.
The same eight stages the national cycling programs and the motorcycle rider courses use, in the same order, in language an eleven-year-old reads.
It starts where nothing can hit them.
An empty lot, a straight line, and a shoulder check they can hold. That is the gate.
In this order. Never reordered.
Fit to Ride
Know Your Machine
In the Empty Lot
Look Behind, Ride Straight
You Are Traffic
Where You Are Allowed
Paths and People
When It Goes Wrong
You watch. The list knows what to look for.
Thirty things, one at a time. The checklist carries the expertise, so you do not have to.
They ride to school on their own.
And you know exactly what they were taught before they did.
a year — for your whole family, however many kids you have
The Road Badge is one of nine.
The e-bike is why most parents come. The same membership also covers home alone, online, out on their own and first job — for every child you have.
A child decides to learn it, does the work, and earns the badge themselves. That is the part you cannot buy in a class — it is theirs, and they know it. And a badge is something they can show: on the bike especially, a simple and safe way to say this rider has been taught.
The first 100 families lock that rate in and keep it for as long as they stay.
Badge Kids certifies that a course was completed. It is not a license, a permit, or a registration, and no completion number identifies a child.