Teach on D76: Riders and Shops Can Now Create Ride Training Courses

You Know Something Worth Passing On

Every riding community has them. The rider everybody calls before they buy a first bike. The coach who can fix a sloppy U-turn in one parking lot session. The shop owner who has walked a hundred riders through their first chain adjustment and never once made anybody feel dumb for asking. The ride lead who explains a staggered formation so clearly that new riders show up to their first group ride already knowing where to be.

That knowledge usually lives in parking lots, shop counters and conversations at the gas stop. Starting today, it can live on Ride Training, with your name on it.

District 76 is opening Ride Training to creators. Riders, coaches, instructors and shops can now apply to teach, build their own courses in a creator studio, and put their signature on the certificate every rider earns when they finish. All bikes, all riders, one community, and now, a lot more teachers.

How It Works

It comes down to four steps: apply, build, get reviewed, go live.

1. Apply to teach. Head to Teach on D76 and tell us about yourself: what you ride, how long you've been at it, what you'd teach and who you'd teach it to. Add your credentials if you have them, a YouTube link that shows how you teach, and a paragraph about your first course. Nothing fancy is required. We care more about whether riders will learn something from you than about letters after your name.

2. Build your course in the Creator Studio. Once you're approved, the studio opens up. Start a course with a title and a level, then build it out the way you'd teach it: sections, video lessons from YouTube, written lessons, downloadable PDF guides, a quiz at the end of each section and a final quiz to wrap it up.

3. Send it for review. Every course is reviewed by the D76 team before a single rider sees it. We check it against the creator guidelines, and if something needs work we'll tell you exactly what in your studio, so you can fix it and send it back.

4. Go live. Approved courses go straight onto Ride Training with your name on the card. Want to update a lesson later? Make your changes on a draft copy. Riders keep taking the live version while your changes are reviewed, then the update rolls out.

A live creator course. Your name under the title and your instructor card right beside the lessons.

The course editor: lessons, details, quizzes and co-authors, with a preview of exactly what riders will see.

Your Name on Every Certificate

This is the part we're most excited about. When a rider finishes your course, they earn a Certificate of Completion signed by you and by District 76. You adopt your signature once in the studio: type your name the way you want it to appear and add a line under it, like "MSF RiderCoach" or "Owner, Clarksville Cycle Works". From then on it goes on every certificate from your courses.

Every certificate also carries a link anyone can open to check that it's real, and District 76 digitally signs the details. A rider can hand it to a riding buddy, a club or a group ride lead, and they can see who issued it, who taught it and when.

See What's Working

Good teachers pay attention to their students, so the studio gives you real numbers on every live course:

• Riders and finishes: how many riders have taken your course, how many are active, and how many finished it.
• Where riders drop off: each lesson shows how many riders started and finished it, and the studio points out the biggest drop, so you know which lesson to tighten up.
• How far into each video riders get: see whether riders watch to the end or tap out halfway through.
• Quiz questions that trip riders up: the share of riders who got each question right on the first try. If most riders miss it, the lesson or the question may need another look.
• Ratings: riders taking your course can rate it and leave a few words, and the average shows on your course once three riders have rated it.

You also get a weekly email with how your courses did. The numbers are counts only. You'll never see which rider did what, and anything drawn from a handful of riders stays hidden so nobody can be picked out.

Shops: This Is Built for You Too

If you run a shop, you already teach every day: at the counter, in the service bay, in the parking lot after a gear fitting. Ride Training lets you turn that into courses riders can take anywhere, anytime.

• Teach the things your customers ask about: basic maintenance, chain and tire care, getting a first bike set up, choosing and fitting gear, getting ready for riding season.
• Your name goes on every course card, on the course page and on every certificate.
• You get an instructor page listing all your courses, your bio and links to your shop, website and socials.
• Teaching with your crew? Add co-authors so your mechanics or instructors can build and edit courses with you.

Riders who learn something from you remember where they learned it.

What Makes a Great Ride Training Course

We want every course on Ride Training to be one we'd send our own riding buddies to. That's what the creator guidelines are for, and they're simple:

• Safety first. Nothing that glorifies stunts, street racing or excessive speed on public roads. Track and closed-course riding is labeled as such.
• Proper gear on screen, and lessons that explain why it matters.
• Accurate, current technique. Anything that depends on local law says so.
• No claims that a course replaces a licensing course or a state-approved rider course. Completion is completion.
• Your own videos, images and music, or ones you have the rights to.
• Rider to rider. Respect every bike, brand, style and rider, and leave politics out of it.

Pick one thing you teach well and teach it clearly. A short, focused course that nails slow-speed turns beats a sprawling one that covers everything.

For Riders: More to Learn, From More People

If you're here to learn, all of this means more courses on more topics, taught by riders and shops who actually do the thing they're teaching. You'll see who teaches each course right on the card, you can check out an instructor's page before you start, and you can read what other riders thought. Same as before, you can take courses on the website, track your progress and earn your certificate. The D76 app is on the way, and creators will be able to build and edit courses right in the app too.

Ready to Teach?

You don't need a film crew. A phone, a quiet parking lot and something worth teaching is a great start. Sign in, head to Teach on D76, and tell us what you'd teach. Not a member yet? Join District 76 first. It's free, and it takes a minute.

Ride what you ride. Rep who you rep. Respect everyone. And if you know something that keeps riders safer or makes riding more fun, come teach it.