A full service, community oriented bike shop Featuring Specialized, Cannondale, Seven, Electra, Pivot. RBSC offering shop rides and clinics.
Sean and Jacqui Dowd started Ridgefield Bicycle Company in January of 2011. By combining the existing bike shop in Ridgefield (Ridgefield Cyclesport) and Doctor Mike's Mobile Service, the shop was created. Sean and Jacqui live in Ridgefield with their three kids and wanted the shop to represent their family's passion for cycling and commitment to community. We want all cyclists to feel comfortable and welcome in our store. If you are looking for a kids bike, mountain bike, road bike or anything in between, you will find it with us. We started the Ridgefield Bicycle Sport Club in 2012. The community has rallied together in a very short time to create one of the largest shop organized cycling clubs in the country. With over 220 members in year one, we focus on offering great rides for all levels, enhancing the cycling and multi-sport experience and enjoying social events often sponsored by local businesses. Ridgefield Bicycle Company is a full repair service, sales and accessories retail store servicing Fairfield County and Northern Westchester. Our biggest resource at the shop is our people. Jacqui, Sean, Mike, Adam, Tony, Nik, Paul, Lucas, Ben and Jack each bring something special to the character of the shop. Come in and see for yourself. Keep an eye our for our DEMO days (road, TRI and mountain), ride clinics, service clinics and Mountain Bike stunt shows - all events are FREE. Hope to see you at the shop! Sean & Jacqui Dowd
Okay, okay, now I'm going to play the role of the rider. We've got a rider down. Would you go up the road and stop the traffic from coming from the east? And you go up the road and stop the traffic from coming from the west. Start flagging your arms or whatever you have to do. He's going to evaluate him because he happens to be a nurse. You're doing great. How do you feel? Okay. Mike, just try to keep him still. Yes. Okay, now I'm going to call 911. No. Because that's one of the first things you want to do. If there's an indication that the helmet is cracked, the ride is over for that rider. There's no question about it. That's an absolute stop. Okay. We're all big advocates of road ID. You can get it in various forms, whether it's a wristband, you can get the necklace, you can get things to clip onto your shoe. I personally like the web version so that it's more than just an emergency contact and phone n You pay the $9. 99 a year and now you've got four pages of medical history that can be accessed through the internet or by an $800. A lot of helpful features, one of which is if you use a screen lock, which I do, you can create a screen that even though your phone is locked, I know you can't see it out there, but this is actually, it has my three emergency contacts. It says I'm allergic to yellow jackets. My insurance company is Aetna and that's right on my screen before having a punch in the code to open up the phone. Is the preservation and the collection of evidence. And this is where I'm really begging I can often figure out exactly the speed that you're going, going into the slide if you lay the bike down. If you hit a vehicle, whether it's head on or at the side, I can figure out the speed of the vehicle, the speed of the bike, who was at fault, where it happened, all of that. Unless Leave the debris where it is if there is any. I know the bike is expensive and it's awesome and you want to check it out. If it's a bad accident or serious injury, I'm taking the bike with me I hate to say you'll get it back eventually, but that becomes part of the investigation and everything. And just kind of help us out. I understand you saw what happened, you saw him go down, you want to tell me what happened. I will get to you, I promise we'll interview you, you can give us a written statement and everything. But just kind of let us do our evidence doc Try and create a little safe barrier until some emergency vehicles get on scene and then that's what we do with the emergency vehicles. So once we get some flashing lights and stuff going, that usually slows people down enough that they want to stop and eyeball what's going on. So if a person falls down and hits their head and they're a little bit disoriented, the information we get from them may not be 100% reliable. And whenever you ask somebody, are they okay, what do you suppose the n Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. There could be a lead time is the point. So the sooner you call, the better it is. If we cancel afterwards, that's fine. We can all go back. If we come check everything out and you say everybody's fine, no need, we can go ahead and go back in service. Find the accurate with your location. As a writer, you probably want to be aware of where you are at any given time anyway, but if you could relate it to a street name and a street n Forgive me for being stern with it sometimes, but it'so true that we really do have to bottom line as cyclists, as members of the club, of as just h Please obey the laws that are, it's our right to use the law, to use the roads, but it's also our obligation to follow the law when we're there. Going around cars, Those are just things that not only give us a bad name, but cause accidents. So just, I mean, I'm looking at people who are obviously, When you're riding with other people, going by example, if you do see it on a ride that you're on, it's okay to say, hey, Mike, I don't really But please don't do that. It's just, it's a major part of our mission as a club, fun, competition, camaraderie, community, but education and safety, without those two things, the rest of it is impossible.