Plum High School buys bikes for physical education classes, cycling club

Plum Large College pupils have new bicycles to journey in actual physical instruction lessons that will also be utilized for a new cycling club.

The district recently purchased 38 Giant Talon 2 mountain bikes from The Bike Lab, a bicycle shop in Plum. The complete price was $20,345, dollars for which was involved in the district’s price range, assistant Principal Adam Szarmach explained.

Jim Yurek, owner of The Bike Lab, said he turned a seller by means of Costars, the state’s cooperative purchasing plan, in purchase to offer the bikes to the school district “at a major price cut.”

The bikes Plum acquired incorporate 4 measurements, from further-modest by way of large.

“I preferred to do this for the kids,” reported Yurek, a mentor with the Nationwide Interscholastic Biking Affiliation and an assistant director and head coach with the Pittsburgh East Composite Mountain Bicycle Staff.

Szarmach reported directors want to deliver extra life time fitness chances for students.

“With biking turning out to be much more well-liked, competitive and available all through the location, we wished to provide our students the chance to find out whilst also partaking in activities they could love later on in life,” he mentioned.

All superior school learners will have a possibility to use the bikes, Szarmach mentioned. College students in ninth and 10th grades will use them by way of the bodily education curriculum.

A study course is getting produced on campus. Szarmach reported school officers hope to have tools in the future for college students to use the bikes in the constructing during wintertime months.

The district will supply helmets, 38 of which had been obtained from The Bike Lab for $1,900.

“Throughout the faculty year, pupils will have various alternatives to make use of the bikes,” Szarmach claimed. “We are discovering other alternatives to engage in extracurricular competitions versus other schools, as well.”

He stated teachers have created a biking unit for learners, which they want to introduce as early as probable.

“The target is to generate a life span health exercise that our pupils delight in and continue on through their adulthood,” he stated. “The district is also in the method of commencing a biking club for our students. This will let any college students who want to be a lot more concerned with biking the possibility.

“It is the hope that some students will also proceed to interact in cycling outside the house of faculty and proceed to problem them selves by biking if they drive to do so.”

Szarmach said the school will get the job done with The Bike Lab to keep the machines. Customers of the biking club will master how to maintain the bikes less than the advice of The Bicycle Lab and teachers.