Chelsea, MA Unsorted, 29 Jun 2022

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From YouTube: Bike Rodeo 2022

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Recreation & Cultural Affairs

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Good morning my name is B. Cravada I am director of recreation, cultural Affairs in the city of Chelsea and I'm, proud to say this today is our first Bike Rodeo for the city. I would like to introduce Laura gray and she is from Matt's bike and she will be able to explain the day and we're going to be here all morning.

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Hi, my name is Laura I'm, a contractor with mass bike hired through safe routes to school, safe routes to schools of Massachusetts Statewide organization. That's looking to build Pathways with pedestrian and biking organizations like here in Chelsea to really build those skills in kids.

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So what we're going to be doing today is getting them on bikes and working on their bike skills how to ride slowly safely with other pedestrians with cars, whatever the case may be for them and really just build that confidence so that they can start either riding or hopefully walking and riding to school in the mornings.

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And we're excited that this will be the start of an annual event. We'll hopefully have this every single year, and uh this is a collaborative effort with the Chelsea Police uh Chelsea Public Library uh The Pedestrian committee- uh also again Chelsea Recreation. So we're just really excited to be here.

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um So I'm gonna bring over a couple more people uh to introduce themselves Sarah or Nick Sarah yeah come on over.

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Okay, we're doing the important work here of decorating their helmets, because helmets are very important things for kids to wear, and so whatever we can do to make that an exciting time for them.

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Yeah well, it seems like everybody's, a little bit busy right now come on back, okay and we're more than happy I think there's two or three kids that are right now, starting.

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And then Queen, no no 13.

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The garage beautiful.

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Yeah yeah right now, mine I, did look for 30 seconds a 30 years.

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Want the helmet there I'm gonna, put this on there for you too, so, let's, let's take the helmet off. Why don't you? Why don't you try yeah.

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There you go nice job, put your visor on here.

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It's a little more protected, get the Sun out of your eyes.

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That's perfect.

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Yeah so hi, my name is Nick, so uh here we're helping kids uh with helmets. We actually have free helmets that were given away today and they were helping kids make sure they're putting on the helmets correctly. It's really important that helmets, uh the strap, is tight. That's in the right place over your head doesn't move too much, so we help the kids make sure they know how to how to put it on correctly. So it's nice and snug, so it stays on their head. Well,.

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Thank you for you.

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Yeah our helmets here too.

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Just trying to get back into racing shape and he has this female trainer who's awesome and who wants to be a racer, but all the male cars are dicks. Oh okay, I think that turns out she's, actually really good, and then what happened.

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I'm not watch some trip.

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So what are you going to do when you get to that sign? Wonderful.

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So as we go through.

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Stop sign besides.

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And then we're gonna do a bakery.

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And we're going to come back so I'm gonna. Do it real, quick and then actually I'm just gonna? Have you follow me all right? Let's go.

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Good job, all right, we're gonna, come in some tight turns it might be hard on those bikes.

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Then we're gonna come to another. Stop good job, everybody all right! This next section, we're gonna, do a figure. Eight, so I need you to really pay attention to. Where everybody is. You don't run anybody over right test your ability to pay attention.

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I'd like to introduce everyone to Sarah Gay Jackson who's, director of the Chelsea Public Library and she's, been a big part of putting this all together and just some thoughts that you have about the day and also this event. Yeah.

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We love supporting this event at the library. We have a lot of kids that ride their bikes to the library we want to teach them how to ride safely, teach them that they have a place to lock their bikes around. The library would love to see people walking and biking to the library, so we'd like to support these kind of things, and you know, provide crafts, provide books on bicycle safety and just getting out walking and being healthy in general. So love to be here.

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And as we were saying, we really are excited that this will become an annual event, and this is our first time and so we're learning to how to be able to do this and how to do this. You know effectively and we couldn't have asked for a better day yeah and we're a better kickoff to Summer. Yes, thank you. Thank you.

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Right, no, no, no.

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I don't need it.

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