Bike to School Resources
Bike To School Resources
Bentonville Schools is happy to share resources from Arkansas Moves which includes more than 300 stakeholders from various sectors of our community with the goal of improving safety for active transportation.
Share or Join a Bike Train
Map it. Share it. Ride it. 🚲 Use this form to share your Bike Train route or click here to see the routes set to roll!
April 27 thru May 1
Bike to School Week
Pedal Pals are proud to support Bike to School Week, encouraging students and families to ride safely, confidently, and together. Through fun characters, engaging videos, and simple safety tips, we help kids build lifelong biking skills while strengthening our community. Let’s roll into school with helmets on, lights shining, and big smiles leading the way! 🚲
Bike to School Week
Pedal Pals is an animated bike safety series created to help kids build confidence and smart riding habits in a way that actually sticks. Through engaging stories and memorable characters, students learn important skills like signaling, helmet safety, trail etiquette, and sharing the road.
Perfect for Bike to School Week and beyond, Pedal Pals turns safety education into something kids look forward to watching and talking about. It supports schools, families, and communities by making safe riding simple, relatable, and fun all year long.
Quick and Easy Bike Train Planning
The Quick and Easy Bike Train Planning document outlines a simple framework for organizing a neighborhood bike train for students riding to school together. It covers selecting safe routes, identifying meeting points and pickup times, recruiting parent ride leaders, and communicating clearly with families about safety expectations and helmet use. The goal is to make participation easy, reduce traffic congestion around schools, and build community while helping kids ride safely and confidently.
Bicycling to School Together: A Bike Train Planning Guide
Bike trains enable students to get to school while enjoying the outdoors and the company of other bicyclists. Best suited for children in upper elementary and middle school grades, bike trains are led by adults - one at the front and one at the rear of the train - that accompany students as they bike to and from school. From one or two neighbors biking together, to a route with multiple “stations” where more riders join in, bike trains can be a great way to instill a love of bicycling while developing life-long safety skills.
Safe Routes to School: How to Get a Bike Train Going at Your School
A bike train is a simple and exciting way for kids to get active while traveling safely to and from school. Students ride together as a group, guided by adults who help keep everyone safe and make the journey enjoyable. As biking continues to grow across the country, bike trains play an important role in Safe Routes to School programs, helping students arrive on time, improving safety, reducing traffic and pollution near schools, and encouraging more families to choose walking and biking, all while making the trip a highlight of the day.
More Bike to School Resources
Riding a bicycle is a healthy, fun, and fast way to get around town and to school. Prepare for a fun trip by following these easy tips!
A bicycle train is an organized or ad hoc group of students with adult leaders that travels to and from school together.
With a bike train, a group of students bike to school together, with adults who make sure students stay safe and have fun.
This teacher started a 'bike bus' so kids could cycle to school together, and it's more than doubled in size in just a few months