At a recent Rolling Rodeo session, nearly 40 kids from BAAM’s summer program ran the course on the pavement outside the organization’s Jowite Street location. Denise Yarbough-Smith, BAAM’s academic program manager, said the goal goes beyond just handing a kid a bike. It’s teaching them to use it safely once they have it. Ninety percent of BAAM’s students are eligible to receive a free bicycle and helmet through Talbot Thrive if they don’t already own one, and the need is real. Of the first group of seven elementary school girls who ran the course, only two had bikes of their own.