Kids from left to right: Max Holland, Noah Watts-Hull, Paul Coiron, Emily Sciarrone, Terry Cronic, Jude Holmes, Boyd Brim, Brogan Ellis, Jack Bricker and Sienna Elliott

This past Tuesday, cyclists from all over metro Atlanta headed to the Capitol to promote bike awareness.  And while many of the photos and stories I’ve seen thus far about the two-wheeled campaign have focused on area political leaders sporting smart-looking helmets, there was another group from Decatur that was perhaps even more unique.  Kids.

Cathy writes in and sends along a great photo (above)…

10 kids from Glennwood Academy along with several parents, joined the Georgia Rides to the Capitol campaign.  Riding behind a 12-motorcycle police escort, the kids joined Mayor Bill Floyd and hundreds of other cyclists to raise awareness about the need for the development of a regional-scale bicycle network of both on-road facilities and multi-use-trails, and a pedestrian network focused around major transit facilities and activity centers and near schools.

Thousands of cyclists converged on the Capitol to hear legislators speak to this effort.

The only kids there were from Decatur.  Pretty cool.