Gary Cziko, Reaching Out to Bike Clubs
Masters bicycle racer and CyclingSavvy Instructor Gary Cziko describes his reaching out to bicycle clubs to get across the message of defensive-assertive driving as taught in the CyclingSavvy program. This talk, given at the 2016 I am Traffic II conference in St. Louis, Missouri, includes descriptions of how he gained acceptance in the fast-riding crowd of a Los Angeles area club, how he got his message across following a tragic fatal crash of one of its members, and how he successfully campaigned for cyclists’ rights to use the road safely.
Gary Cziko is a retired professor of sociology (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and the author of two books on perceptual control theory published by MIT Press. As a CyclingSavvy Instructor, he brought the first CyclingSavvy courses to Illinois, California, Arizona and Washington State. Since moving from Illinois to Los Angeles in 2013, he has been working with bike clubs in Southern California to introduce them to CyclingSavvy and explore with them savvy group riding practices.
