Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg will be running a bike rodeo in the upper parking lot of Hufnagle Park during the Lewisburg Fall Festival (the one where the Woolly Worm Winter Weather Prognostication will make its stupendous come-back) on Saturday, October 12. The festival will run from noon to 5pm. The bike rodeo will be from 1 to 3pm.

The bike rodeo is a free kids' activity focusing on bike skills and safety education, but also with some opportunities for adults. Helmets are required. Stations will include bike safety check, slalom, quick braking, helmet fitting, road safety trivia, steering skills, and slow race. We will also have a wheelchair skills activity option so that people can get a sense of the types of barriers and challenges wheelchair users frequently face in the public realm.

Local kids (or really anyone) are welcome to come and test their cycling prowess. Kids who may be visiting the area with their families because of the unPAved of the Susqeuhanna River Valley event are also welcome. There will be several childrens' bikes and helmets of different sizes available -- Courtesy of Earl's Bicycle Store -- as loaners if someone doesn't have their wheels with them.

The helmet fitting station will be run by the Evangelical Community Hospital Community Health and Wellness Department. Participants will visit the fitting station to make sure their helmet straps are properly adjusted and the entire assembly is well-fit to their heads. Bring your helmets ready to be checked!

The Bike Rodeo will also be right next to the Lewisburg Children's Museum where there will be kids' activities and a woolly worm petting zoo.

The Bike Rodeo is Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg's way of celebrating National Walk to School Day, which takes place each fall and spring around the country. The other parts of the event will feature a Woolly Worm petting zoo thanks to the Lewisburg Children's Museum, food vendors, crafters, wine and beer, bicycle industry reps on hand for unPAved, and race packet pickup.

Participants in the rodeo will have to wear a helmet and sign a waiver, but there is no entry fee to take part.

This is just one small part of the chock-a-block weekend schedule of unPAved of the Susquehanna River Valley activities.