High School Bike Ed Builds Lasting Skills

Learning how to ride a bike, learning how to navigate your neighborhood, and learning how to fix a bike are helpful at any age. But especially valuable during the teen years, when traveling by bike can be a great solution for transportation, socializing, and being active at school and in the community. Introducing students to how infrastructure impacts travel is another meaningful way to learn how we can work together to keep all road users safe.

The Fall 2025 semester welcomed the second year of bike clubs and programming organized by the Bike Fed for select schools in Milwaukee and Dane counties. We know that there are more awesome high school bike clubs and programs in school districts around the state, and hope these updates will inspire more!

Milwaukee County

Milwaukee Area High School Bike Clubs

Milwaukee High School Education Manager, Alora Correa, has led the high school bike clubs for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years. Mobile Bike Repair Manager Anthony Casagrande runs the Valid bike shop within North Division High School. Together, they are providing students with a variety of opportunities and enjoy the energy of every group!

• 2 High School Bike Clubs: North Division, Escuela Verde
• Meeting weekly after school. 10-15 students on average attending.
• Highlights:
  • Students working through Mechanic Modules in order to Earn a Bike.
  • Weekly group rides in each community.
  • Winter riding and night riding with all of the proper gear! 
  • Rode to the local library to attend a Public Information Meeting and also to a nearby park to pick up trash

Dane County

Madison High School Bike Clubs

Wisconsin Bike Fed’s Dane County Program Manager, Shawn Koval, joined the Bike Fed staff in Summer 2025 and hit the ground running with enthusiasm. Shawn reflects that this year’s bike clubs all have their own culture/feel, but share a common excitement for bikes!

• 3 HS clubs: Memorial, East, LaFollette
• Meeting weekly – – two during lunch time, and one after school.
• Highlights:
  • Guiding students to fix up their school’s Physical Education bike fleet and hosting an after school bike repair clinic for fellow students (Memorial).
  • Supporting student-led activities and contests for the school’s first Bike Week (East).
  • Going on group rides, including to the Wisconsin Bicycle Film Festival @ Barrymore Theater (LaFollette).
  • Leading workshops, such as how to fix a flat and how to bike in the winter.

Shabazz High School Programming

In Fall 2025, the Bike Fed’s Madison education team spent five days with Shabazz High School’s Environmental Science class teaching a Biking and Transportation Planning unit. 

The group learned and practiced bike handling skills outside, learned about key topics related to active transportation, built environment, and urban planning in the classroom, completed neighborhood walk and bike infrastructure observations, and hosted guest speakers from the Transportation Commission (Robbie Webber) and city traffic engineer’s office (Jose Navarro) to learn about the transportation project planning process and advocacy opportunities with the City of Madison. 

Students are now planning their advocacy next steps to share their recommendations for the design features to be included in a recently-approved Safe Streets project to improve bikeability on Aberg Avenue, a busy corridor near their school.

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The Wisconsin Bike Fed extends a big “thank you” to all of the kind individuals, municipalities, and organizations that have donated materials and funds to make such programming possible. The food, bicycles, and gear we are able to provide these students have helped create memories and lasting impacts that will resonate for years to come!