Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SOMERVILLE, Mass., June 30 (UPI) -- A Somerville, Mass., woman says enrollment in her adult bicycle riding class has nearly doubled since 2006. Susan McLucas, 59, said the Bicycle Riding School she has operated since 1985 in a barn behind her home is aimed at turning adults who never learned to pedal the two-wheeled vehicles into full-fledged bike riders, the Boston Globe reported Monday. Advertisement "It's part of getting rid of cars," she said, "and making bikes rule the world." McLucas said she has taught nearly 2,000 people ranging in age from 5 to 82 to ride bicycles, and recently enrollment in her four-class programs and requests for one-on-one lessons have been rising sharply. "I used to consider it kind of a sideline, but it's almost a full-time job now," said McLucas, an activist who in 1997 founded the Healthy Tomorrow non-profit to combat female genital mutilation. McLucas said students of her class, which is offered through the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, pay $25 for a single 90 minute lesson or $92 for the full set of four lessons.
