Bicycles can be more than good exercise, or basic transportation. In Tucsons Sunnyside neighborhood, a middle school is finding bikes help move students to better performance in school and life.

At Apollo Middle School they have a program that puts students on bikes. Its for more than fun, more than exercise. The program is called riding for focus.

Students at Apollo Middle School are learning safe cycling but more than that. Riding close together, scanning ahead for hazards, signaling carefully, and sharing the road with courtesy builds focus, responsibility and courage.

Alejandro Grijalva knows hes learning more than the basics of riding a bike.

Some people think it's scary to do this, but it helps you learn. Helps you get out of the scary things you think the world has for you, and

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