Meet some of our LCI-certified bicycle education instructors who teach our free, adult bike classes! Check out our upcoming bicycle education classes here.
Frances Barbour
Frances started bike commuting during her college years, which began her love affair with active transportation, cycling, and staying fit. She then started road riding for recreation in her native Washington, DC. Mountain biking followed when she moved to San Francisco in 1992. Her career in International Relations led to a passion for linking transportation and the environment in the United States, and inspired her to teach cycling to enable others.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Anthony DiSalvo
Anthony has been a lifelong cyclist – he was a founding member of his high school’s bike club, took his bike onboard his ship while in the Navy, and has rode his bike in many countries. He has been teaching as a League Certified Instructor since 2009 for all levels and ages of bicycle education in the classroom, on the road, and consulting local cycling clubs safety programs. When people ask him why he rides a bicycle, Anthony says, “because it’s fun!”.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Christie Galitsky
I grew up in Pennsylvania, where my dad, who passed away in early 2025, taught me to ride a bike. I often think of him now when I’m riding on a long ride, and I feel like his memory lives with me through these rides. Cycling is so special that way. I love exploring my world via bikes, and it’s been a gift to share that with others through teaching, since 2024. My experience is that if you enjoy it and are patient with the process, you will get there when you’re supposed to get there. We all have different life stories, athletic abilities, body shapes, talents, head spaces, and histories. Let it come to you. We (LCIs) will get you there.
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Chester Hartsough
Chester has been teaching people of all ages for almost 5 years. He loves witnessing people finding joy in learning to ride a bike for the first time and feels that the pride and immediate self-confidence boost students have is contagious. To Chester, he’s helping create everyday solutions to our climate crisis, one student at a time. He also gets great satisfaction in going from point A to point B on a bike – be that from home to the grocery store or from Seattle to San Francisco. For Chester, biking is good for his health, good for the planet, and good for his soul!
Pronouns: he/him/his
Sarah Katz-Hyman (SKH)
Sarah has been teaching bike education to adults and kids for over a decade. They got their start teaching in Washington, D.C. where they helped pilot a youth bike camp and implement a first-in-the-nation program where every 2nd grader in D.C. Public Schools learn to ride a bike. They love seeing the joy on people’s faces when they learn to ride and helping folks feel more confident to ride in the city. They’ve met all their best friends because of biking and love riding around SF with their dog, (Whoofi) Goldberg, as their ultimate co-pilot!
pronouns: they/them/theirs
Raul Maldonado
Raul is originally from Modesto, CA where he used a bike to get to school, work, and run errands. He has experience teaching a variety of topics, and is excited to combine those skills and his biking lifestyle, stories, and advocacy to help students have an amazing journey biking around San Francisco!
Pronouns: he/him/el
José Vargas
José has been obsessed with biking since middle school. For him, bikes allow one to explore their environment at a slow pace and see things more closely while engaged with their body. Other reasons he loves biking: you avoid sitting in traffic or looking for parking, you don’t enrich oil companies, bikes reduce your carbon footprint, riding nourishes your mental and physical health. José has been a teacher since his college years, and decided to be part of SFBike as a bicycle education instructor in 2019.
pronouns: he/him/his