Summer Camps Seattle l Pedalheads Bike Camps

★Tyler Cook

Well where to start? How about I got a call to have to come and remove training wheels on my daughters bike... This should tell you the experience level of the kids running the camp (really you can't take the training wheels off)... It gets worse (for many reasons) but one day we show up and my daughter is crying with a bloody nose and the instructors (yes more than one within a couple feet) standing next to her were not paying attention or even comforting her. I had to run out to help her. Just a terrible experience. Oh yeah and she still doesn't know how to ride a bike. So nice job there too. The staff is a bunch of teenagers with what seems like a huge lack of care or training.

★★★★★Brandi Martinez

My 5 year old daughter just wrapped up a full week of bike camp at South Seattle Community College in West Seattle. Her coach was Alba and I can’t tell you how fantastic our experience was! First callout, the class was 9-4 M-F and it has been scorching HOT this week. The staff is young, but everyone I observed was so patient and caring with all of the kiddos. Our daughter was riding by day 2, and doing tricks by day 5. She came in scared with 0 confidence, and now is cruising all over the place w/o training wheels. Even on the 90 degree days she didn’t want to stop riding when we picked her up. Needless to say, we were thoroughly impressed by Alba, the rest of the staff, and more importantly our girl! She had an amazing time and we would sign her up for another level!

★★★★Celine Schointuch

We had a wonderful experience at their west Seattle location. Julia was our main teacher, we also got help from Eden and Emily were all very patient and made biking fun for our toddler’s first time on a bike. Thanks!

★★★★★Martha Seneta

My 6-year-old son did one week of full-day Pedalheads camp this summer at the Crown Hill location (Whitman Middle School in Ballard). This was his second year doing the camp, and he loved it this year as much as last year! Last year, he learned to ride without training wheels. This year, he rode all over Ballard with the camp, learned to do hand signals, and gained enough confidence to do a little trick (jumping while riding). The camp was organized and professional and the counselors were friendly. We are definitely planning to do this camp again next year.

★★★★Simon

I have both good and bad news, which is why I've rated it 4 stars. The good news: My kid learned to ride without training wheels, made friends, and isn’t scared to bike anymore. The bad news: Almost all the instructors are very young, around 15 to 17 years old. This isn't ideal because they lack the experience older instructors might have with kids. At the camp I attended, there was one manager—I believe his name was Pat—who connected well with the kids, including my son. However, he was overly lenient, and I noticed some kids took advantage of his kindness by pretending to be injured to get out of riding. Which isn’t really necessary they had about 2 breaks every hour and also had a 30 minute lunch. I found it concerning that he allowed kids to sit out even when they showed no signs of actual psychical injury, like bruising, swelling or cuts. This is a concern because I caught my own child doing this, and if I'm paying $600 a week, I expect them to be actively participating in activities, not pretending to be hurt by saying there stomach hurts really bad or using the skinned knee they got two days ago as an excuse of being in pain. Other than this issue, I don’t have any major complaints. My son really enjoyed the camp, made great friends, and learned how to ride his bike confidently. I would definitely consider sending him there again.