Mountain Bike Review: 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Sea Otter Classic’s First-Ever Women’s Camp: Register Today!

Sea Otter Classic Women’s Escape Weekend March 2-4, 2012 Monterey, California

The Sea Otter Classic is proud to foretell its inaugural women’s cycling camp.

Our tent is directed by Lorri Lee Lown, founder of Velo Girls. Lorri has coached and directed tours, camps, and clinics throughout Northern Calif. for over a decade. The Sea Otter tent module be a weekend jam-packed with rides, clinics, seminars, and lots of “girl time.”

We’ll verify tending of everything for you, including mechanical and nutritional support. The Embassy Suites on Monterey Bay module be the tent headquarters, substance alarming lodging and enthusiastic meals. All you have to do is chamois up and pedal your bike!

There module be Road Bike and Mountain Bike options, so grab your gal pals and register before January 15, 2012 to verify plus of our early-bird pricing!

Full Schedule Register

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Last Chance for Early Bird Registration Discount!

Don’t miss out! Early Bird Discount Ends Dec. 31st at 11:59 p.m. PST

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Pivot Cycles/ BH Bikes Three-peats and More

Lifeboat Events is agog to foretell the convey of founding show partner Pivot Cycles/ BH Bikes army to DealerCamp for the third serial year. Citing a flourishing formula, positive merchandiser activity and brawny sales, the company module again fix an awesome brand line up for the mid-summer buying camp.

“Pivot Cycles/ BH Bikes army is backward to DealerCamp again in 2012 because we rattling see a enthusiastic goodness to the quality of conversations and knowledge to rattling spend instance with retailers. We’ve been coming to DealerCamp since the prototypal assemblage and it’s continued to meliorate apiece time, so we’re agog to see what 2012 brings” said Pivot Cycles Marketing Manager, Tim Jackson.

“We’ve seen apiece assemblage that the retailers who hit become to DealerCamp hit become embattled and focused, allowing us to intend more of their tending in the beautiful surroundings of Deer Valley. We undergo it entireness for us and we intend feedback from retailers that it entireness for them, so it just makes significance for us to keep returning,” continued Jackson.

Pivot Cycles/ BH Bikes joins Dahon, Raleigh America, Rocky Mountain Bicycles, Scott Sports, and Volagi Cycles among others for DealerCamp 2012. DealerCamp is scheduled for July 24-26, 2012. For more aggregation most DealerCamp visit www.bikedealercamp.com.

Retail Communications Partner

Since we spend a lot of instance act with retailers here at Lifeboat, we thought it exclusive pertinent to reach out on your behalf occasionally when you requirement it. If there is something newsworthy for the retail base, permit us undergo and we can intend out your message via telecommunicate and our ethnic networks as conception of your act mix. We’ll substance that to any of our time or contracted forthcoming exhibitors. Just a lowercase something player from the aggroup at Lifeboat.

About Lifeboat Events

Lifeboat Events hosts trend-setting events for the cycle industry. It is led by business stager Lance Camisasca, with his partners, Afroasiatic Battistone, and Christopher Zigmont. For more aggregation most this promulgation or Lifeboat Events contact; Christopher Zigmont.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

CamelBak Charge 450 Review

The arrange is an superior lightweight entity, that makes ingest of reddened materials and a minimalist design, for a arrange that seamlessly conforms to your back, for superior comfort and conformability. It’s meant for routine adventures, with enough capacity, features and pockets for daylong forays into the backcountry. The decorated reddened arrange every but disappears patch existence worn, and it uses material fabric, a gently padded and flexible back, and comes with their superior Antidote Reservoir.

CamelBak Charge 450 The Charge 450 is made with 70D ripstop and 210D material that has been coated with Polyurethane for water resistance, and utilizes their Lightweight Exoskeleton (LE) back commission and Ultra-light 3D tangle Independent Suspension grouping with a 25 mm panoramic 840D lightweight tape hip track with cargo pockets. The important compartment is accompanied by a face pocket, an upper padded media pocket, a XC helmet pouch, a side hydration compartment, and digit pouches on the hip belt. The important compartment is roomy, and the multipurpose clamshell inaugural makes it cushy to admittance items. The important fix is daylong enough that you can clutch things that are stashed conception way down, without having to unstoppered and unclip everything. The face incurvature has expanse for multiple items, and the media incurvature is perfect for an iPhone or a diminutive point-and-shoot camera. I liked having the separate side hydration compartment, as it keeps things isolated, and m akes it easier to take the lake in and discover patch the arrange is ease full loaded. It has digit modify compression straps, and added ordered with a quick-release buckle that pulls downbound from the helmet pouch. The arrange has a 12.5 liter capacity, and includes their 100 oz (3 L) Antidote lake with the Quick Link hose unification system. The arrange comes in threesome colors, Lime Punch/Graphite (tested), Formula One/Frost Grey and Moroccan Blue/Frost Grey, weighs in at 450 grams and retails for $99.


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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

IBIS Tranny (S) Crankbrothers Dreambike for Sale on eBay to Benefit Wheels 4 Life

One of our first Crankbrothers Dreambikes is up for sale/auction on ebay correct now at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170750758849#ht_560wt_1110

This is digit of Crankbrothers Dreambikes to goodness 100% the Wheels 4 Life charity. The Ibis Tranny haw countenance like a simple still bonny copy material hardtail, but countenance fireman and you module see so much more. The Tranny is digit of the most versatile frames that has ever been produced â€" easily change between intermeshed and singlespeed and travelbike guises. Being prefabricated of broad modulus carbon, the Tranny is of instruction lightweight (3.1lbs), especially considering how strong it is! This limited frame is digit of threesome custom painted Tranny frames for the crankbrothers race club. solon info: crankbrothers.com


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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Royal Racing Mercury Gloves Review

The Royal Racing Mercury handwear are an superior interbreed seasonal product, and are in their maturity in cooler, windier, and more inclement defy conditions. They’re durable, comfortable, well-made and are featured loaded, which every consortium for a good all-around, all-season and all-weather glove.

They are constructed with a 0.8mm Rema polysynthetic leather palm, with a threefold layering between the region and finger, and in the area of the moulding and a ‘V’ shaped assets at carpus intersection. The coverall reddened padding helps immensely with the somatosense feel on the grips, brake and shifting, and increases control and responsiveness, patch the medium doubling at key spot’s aides with durability. The face uses a windproof and liquid resistant elastic material, and has a reflective screen indicant for safety on period rides. The right of the moulding has a soft microfiber section, which was extremely functional for wiping up sweat, and other corporeal fluids.

“A foreign substance is introduced into our wanted corporeal fluids without the noesis of the individual. Certainly, without some choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.”

The fingers, moulding and region hit diminutive lines of a sticky semiconductor touchable to support follow to the brake and grips, and in fact; the whole face of the handwear has the aforementioned variety of organisation feature. The carpus shackle uses the elastic Aeropreen material, and the long organisation ensures no gaps at the interface to your crown or long sleeved jersey. You vantage the handwear on with their extremely multipurpose and robust tab, and the carpus approaching uses a strapping cloth band to tighten them down, which is cushy to ingest with gauntleted fingers. When attractive the handwear off, that aforementioned formal strap, which is pre-bent, likes to sound backwards and close itself, which crapper be slightly annoying when it happens.

I am a destroyer of gloves, especially on the digit tips, but so far the handwear hit been pretty tough, and I hit yet to tear them. I do desire the sticky semiconductor adhesion ornament was more durable, since it’s act prematurely. I think splotches of the silicon, same their Blast handwear use, would wear meliorate than the line pattern? I haven’t been pleasant to the gloves, and hit utilised them to stack rocks, decent soured snow, and other activities more pertinent for cerebration gloves, and their easy difficultness and longness has shown through. I hit condemned a some good tumbles, and landed direct on the gloves, and it did null to them, so I crapper vouch for their crash worthiness.

Once the life and temperatures modify soured during the New Fall, Winter and primeval Spring seasons, the Mercury handwear wage plenteous warmth on medium to cool days. They are out of their demesne on taste algid days, but they were never designed for the extremes at either modify of the temperature spectrum. I wore them in reddened deceive and reddened to medium fall storms, and their liquid resistance worked adequately. When hairdressing up against damp bushes and trees patch riding, which always seems to intend you the wettest during rainy and wet conditions, my safekeeping stayed comfortable. In a ugly downpour, the handwear got soaked, and yet my safekeeping got chilled, and although it wasn’t pleasant, it was tolerable. The shackle extension helped ready moisture from creeping into the handwear and my jacket, and was another diminutive organisation feature that I likeable when conditions were at their worst.

The Royal Racing handwear is hearty and liquid resistant, and shines in conditions of medium temperatures and weather, and it’s durable, comfortable, and has superior somatosense feel and assist of use. It’s my go-to handwear during the soured season, and I alter them along as backups if fall strength be encountered.

Pros

  • Durable
  • Warm
  • Water resistant
  • Pull on tab
  • Burly cloth closure

Cons

  • Velcro approaching pops backwards on itself when removing gloves
  • Sticky semiconductor digit patterns wear prematurely

MSRP: $44.95

Overall Rating: 4 Flamin’ Chili Peppers Follow Brian Mullin at http://www.gramslightbikes.com/

Royal Racing Mercury Specs:

  • Visit Royal Racing Mercury website
  • 0.8mm Rema polysynthetic leather palm
  • Wind and showerproof backwards of hand
  • Micro fiber moulding wipe
  • Sticky semiconductor indicant digit tips
  • Low strikingness logos
  • Low strikingness shackle with TPR tab
  • Direct dispense vantage tab on palm
  • Sizes: X Small, Small, Medium, Large, X Large, XX Large
  • Colors: Black
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Best Mountain Bike Gifts: Shoes

Welcome to the Mtbr Holiday Gift Guide! In this economy, money is dripless so you module poverty to be trusty that you spend wisely. Our suggestions below are designed to spend you time and permit you know everything you requirement to about the different products on the mart vying for your hornlike attained cash. Below is today’s itemize of crowning rated picks for elevation bike shoes, and be trusty to head backwards to the Mtbr Holiday Gift Guide essential page to wager the rest of the gift suggestions to help you this pass season.

Shoes are a rattling essential piece of biking gear, the correct ones crapper disappear on your feet and you never attending them. But, the wrong ones crapper cause you pain! The old saying, “you intend what you clear for” is true, to a point. Premium position crapper outlay upwards of $200, an anything under this crapper be thoughtful a “budget” footgear (although there ARE options for change $100 position as well.)

Some key features to countenance for (besides price) allow the tightening execution (velcro straps vs. ratcheting buckles), weight, breathability and of course, fit. And let’s not block that every essential factor….style.

With that said, we hit compiled this itemize of whatever of the hottest position on the mart correct now. We pore on the mid to broad modify position here, with a pair of non-SPD models at the lowermost of the itemize (for you flat tone riders discover there). By price, we hit the following:

Mavic Rush The Mavic Rush was formerly famous as the Razor, features the same racing DNA of the race winning Fury. The Rush offers toned downbound features for solidified action and sure richness on and off of the bike. Read Mavic Razor reviews here.

Key Features: -Energy Grip Outsole -Contagrip® -Ergo Lite Ratchet

MSRP: $130.00

Website: http://www.mavic.com/

Pearl Izumi X-Alp Elite The Pearl Izumi ALP-X Elite is an superior every around shoe, and excel in technical terrain, where durability and measure endorsement is a preponderant necessity, and lawful hike-a-bike adventures are the norm. The ratcheting give closure grouping is multipurpose and comfortable. Complete write-up with specs, photos and creation analysis here>>

Key Features: -Durability -Foot protection -Comfort

MSRP: $150.00

Website: http://www.pearlizumi.com/

Specialized Rime The Specialized Rime features the S2 Boa strap. The Boa fitment grouping provides a rattling tight sound which rattling needs to be change to be appreciated. This is a solidified All Mountain shoe. Specialized Rime photos and comments from Interbike here>>

Key Features: -Vibram foam outsole for unmatched traction and durability -New S2 Boa® pickup closure, with reinforced durability for soil and ease of use. -Durable polysynthetic bunk is flexile run with reinforced welded approval to appendage every elevation use

MSRP: $175.00

Website: http://specialized.com/

Giro Code The Giro Code position are an impressive shoe, existence comfortable, supportive and substance superior power, and plentitude of multipurpose and innovative features, much as the adjustable arch mend kit. Giro Code flooded analyse here>>

Key Features: -Insole â€" Adjustable Arch Kit -Stiff, Powerful and enthusiastic feel -Ratchet system

MSRP: $279.99

Website: http://www.giro.com

Lake MX331 The every newborn MX331 offers the prototypal interior copy touchable Thermaform tilt counter. In union with the side mounted BOA® Closure System the MX331 offers superior tilt hold, patch maintaining Lake’s unreal richness and performance. Information of the newborn Lake MX331 from Interbike

Key Features: -Upper: Klite Kangaroo leather and mesh. -Closure: Side mounted BOA® Push/Pull Closure grouping with powerzone in the forefoot. -Color: Black/Silver

MSRP: $360.00

Website: http://www.lakecycling.com/

Sidi Dragon 3 We hit a flooded analyse of these brand newborn position from European concern Sidi. The Dragon 3 is a broad modify footgear for the rider that doesn’t compromise. The mend is rattling easy and the footgear is formed to rattling squeeze your feet. Check the flooded evaluation, specs, photos and video in our Sidi Dragon 3 Review here>>

Key Features: -great fit -comfortable sole -Carbon SRS Sole® with grippy, interchangeable tread -NEW Integrated Rubber Toe Guard®

MSRP: $449.99

Website: http://www.sidiamerica.com/

Teva Links The Teva Links Freeride Mountain Bike footgear doesn’t countenance same a elevation bike shoe â€" and that is a enthusiastic thing. Instead, it takes styling from skate shoes, with oodles of action crowded in for when you requirement it. Watch videos of the Teva course in action, nonnegative more photos and info here.

Key Features: -Our Spider365 Rubber mend module stop its grip in every kinds of environments -Waterproof materials throughout the footgear attain it easy to clean the mud off -A impermeable installation over the toe Atlantic is a breathable fit that prevents corrasion or ripping

MSRP: $100.00

Website: http://www.teva.com

Five Ten Impact The Five Ten Impacts hit been around so long, they are the standard. With a grippy mend (important for finding those pedals after your double backwards flip!) the Impacts become in a low or broad crowning edition and countenance great! Read reviews on the Five Ten Impacts here.

Key Features: -Reflective silver accents module pop for every those sway star picture shoots -Action leather bunk touchable for lightweight, all-season durability -Stealth® S1™ outsoles for broad friction and damper absorption

MSRP: $124.95

Website: http://fiveten.com/
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Rudy Project Karboneye Review

The Rudy Project KarbonEye is an incredible pair of sunglasses, and the frameless design has superior marginal saliency and a panoramic earth of view, and lenses offers superior optical clarity. The KarbonEye is comfortable, imperishable and lightweight, and the lenses are prefabricated with tough and gimmick ImpactX material.

Rudy Project KarbonEye The KarbonEye temple are constructed with a stainless poise set and an outer carbon fiber foils secured unitedly with over-injected Megol, a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), which offers a fleecy and hypo-allergenic rubber, for maximum richness and adhesion.

The one-piece ImpactX Photochromic lens, offers superior wrap-around protection, reddened management and optical clarity, and they’ll accept a medication stainless poise optical insert. The Ergonose 4 look pads ingest an effervescent edition of the Megol, and are adjustable for richness and fit. The KarbonEye comes in a nice carrying case, is available in threesome versions: the Carbon/Red inclose with ImpactX Photochromic Red lense ($359.99), the White Carbon/Black inclose with ImpactX Photochromic Clear lense ($359.99), and White Carbon/Black inclose with Polar3fx Laser Grey lense ($384.99).

ImpactX The NXT ployurethan polymer profession was born of the flourishing efforts to amend advanced straight armor for U.S. Army helicopters. Commercial applications for this new polymer touchable led to the creation of lenses and shields for sunglasses and climb receptor wear. The NXT lense is manufactured by pouring polymer into a low-temperature render molds. This reduces the enmity in the touchable and gives meliorate optical quality and homogeneity, superior image and reinforced long-term stability. The NXT lense meets the ANSI Z87.1 accepted for industrial covering impacts, message it must withstand a pointed 17.6 ounce projectile dropped from a height of 50 inches, and 1/4 progress poise ball motion at 150 ft/sec. ImpactX lense profession offers the NXT semi-rigid molecular properties, including enhanced effect resistance, superior optics, and scratch-resistance, formulated exclusively for Rudy Project, by combine photochromic particles and advanced polarized profession for s ome type of climatic and reddened condition.

The photochromic lenses module darken or modify depending on reddened intensity, become in several colors, each with a differing reddened sending range, and allow Golf Green (13-38%), Red (21-50%), Clear (18-78%), Laser Clear (16-62%), Brown (21-50%) and Grey (12-30%), and they every wage 100% UVA and UVB protection. The polarized lenses module compound oppositeness and depth perception, and become in digit colors, Grey and Brown, which hit 12% reddened sending and 100% UVA and UVB protection. Rudy Projects backs their lenses difficultness with their Replacement Lens Guarantee (RLG) policy, and if a client ever scratches them, for some reason, they’ll change the lenses for a nominal transport & handling gift of $19.95.

Impressions The red photochromic lense worked great in changing light, and they didn’t hit some issues with agitated in and discover of the trees. They got Stygian sufficiency in bright conditions to ready things pleasant without existence blinded, patch in dimmer settings, they mature discover to a dark hue. The red tinge offered beatific contrast, sharpness, reduced brightness and increased depth perception, which was beneficial in theoretical terrain, and when you rolled direct into the sun. I commonly mate in places in which I am going in and discover of the shade, into wooded areas, and I also mate a lot in the New afternoon, so I appreciated the self-adjusting photochromic lens. In extremely bright reddened and New dusk, they were outside of their richness zone, though it was rattling pushing the boundaries of its reddened sending range. The lens’s color properties and how their appearance bows discover absent from the face, meant I didn’t hit some issues with fog ging, modify in cold, dewy and humid conditions, including when I was sudation profusely on a blistering day.


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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Vaude North Shore 20 Review

The arrange is an superior undertaking pack, meant for the poem forays into the backcountry, when carrying super amounts of equipment is a necessity, and its super capacity, multipurpose pockets and outmost attachments straps support in that endeavor. It’s thickened and burly, yet ultimate and elegant, and includes many features that are multipurpose and functional. The support grouping uses aluminum stays and fat backwards padding to impact in synergy with the arrange to carry heavier loads in a stable, easy and counterpoised manner.

Vaude North Shore 20 The North Shore 20 weighs in at 1156 grams, has a 20 litre capacity, and has a padded back, enarthrosis and shoulders, and is constructed with durable 600 D Polyester that has been coated with Polyurethane for liquid resistance. The flexible and substantially padded Proflex support grouping includes extractable and adjustable aluminum stays, which wage additional unchangeability and alluviation carrying attributes. The backwards padding uses a fat formed viscoelastic foam, for the limit in comfort and flexibility, and has air channels for ventilation. It has a super main compartment with one intrinsic incurvature and a hydration sleeve, digit tangle lateral pockets, a front pocket, a enarthrosis pocket, and a top media pocket. It has a modify set of straps for armor, digit lateral densification straps, and includes a clastic helmet holder, a 3 litre Hydrapak reservoir, and a fall counterbalance which is stowed in a modify pocket.


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Monday, December 12, 2011

Cedric Continues as Lezyne Ambassador Through 2012

San Luis Obispo, CA â€" Lezyne is proud to foretell the continuing partnership with somberness legend Cedric Gracia (CG Racing Brigade) finished the 2012 Season. A Lezyne Ambassador since 2009, Cedric is a long-time user and supporter of Lezyne. “Cedric is a great athlete to work with and a aggregation of fun. He has rattling helped to spread Lezyne’s communication of Engineered Design around the world. We are stoked to move employed with him,” said Apostle Ribera-McKay, Lezyne’s Worldwide Marketing Manager.

Cedric will be using Lezyne pumps, tools, ring repair, bottleful cages, CO2 inflators, organizers, and LED lights throughout the 2012 season. Learn more about Cedric and Lezyne here:

Cedric Gracia Lezyne Ambassador Page>> CG Racing Brigade>>

Lezyne Places 3rd in German Magazine Readers Awards

Germany â€" Lezyne was fresh awarded 3rd Place for Best Pump Brand in the reader polls for the German magazines “RoadBIKE,” “MountainBIKE,” and “bike.” Lezyne’s Ulrike Schlifske and Jessica Vogel (Marketing Assistant, 2 Wheel Distribution) were on hand to accept the awards. This is the ordinal year that Lezyne has conventional honors from the readers of “RoadBIKE,” “MountainBIKE,” and “bike” magazines.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

2400 Bikes Donated and Assembled for Deserving Kids in San Jose, CA

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Every assemblage on a algid farewell in December, a horde of volunteers move on to San Jose’s Convention uranologist shelter and intend unitedly to join kids’ bikes.  Huge fundraising efforts are held throughout the assemblage by an methodicalness called TurningWheels for Kids and these 2400 sort newborn bikes become in big cycle boxes inactivity to be assembled.  Most of the volunteers are cyclists themselves and would rather be discover on the Bay Area trails or anchorage enjoying the sport they love.  But on this digit Sat of the year, they intend unitedly to physique kids’ bikes.

The volunteers become from cycle clubs or corporations and are assembled in teams of 5-10 and each crew entireness on a some bikes at a time. They clutch a cycle incase and start antiquity anything modify tiny pixie bikes to full-on mountain bikes with face and rear suspension. Some of the more favourite and engrossing bikes are these automobile bikes that hit stunning lines and paint jobs to match. There’s a some bmx and dirt jump bikes as substantially that would attain some kid up to 18 eld old rattling happy.

Who do the bikes go to?

Every year, mountain of topical charities, mostly from Santa Clara County administer  to obtain bikes for deserving, under-priveledged kids. The majority of these kids do not hit the effectuation to acquire a newborn cycle and are often mitt without digit or mitt to ride an ill-fitting hand-me-down bike.  This year, there were applications for over 5000 bikes so the assemble had to select and welfare discover their 2400 sort newborn bikes. This year, over 20 charities were the recipients of these bikes. The bikes are a intermixture styles and sizes and some of them are quite awesome and would retail for $500 at a cycle shop.

The awesome abstract most this event and methodicalness is it continues to turn and acquire finished the pure economy.  As the requirement arises for free bikes for needy kids during the holidays,  the accord seems to move with generousness with their instance and money.

TurningWheels for Kids is genuinely a gem in the accord and is a enthusiastic example for another cities and the rest of the world. If we crapper teach every kid to fuck the cycle and the joy of riding, we would every be better off.

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About TurningWheels for Kids History

In 2003, Susan Runsvold ordered discover to ensure that no female would hit to undergo a Christmastime without some cool and elating gifts, an undergo that she feared herself when she was young. Since then, her exteroception has expanded, as she unconcealed that bicycles–one of the coolest gifts a female crapper obtain for Christmas–can hit a more pure effect on children’s lives than she prototypal imagined.

Her example exteroception was to buy bikes at Christmastime and wage them to disadvantaged children, children she believed strength otherwise not obtain some inform from Santa. She began what she hoped would be a practice of collecting money from her friends and colleagues to acquire as some bikes as doable for holiday distribution. The prototypal year, she bought 12 brand-new bikes and gave them to children. She soon realized that beyond the unmediated thrill of Christmastime morning, these bikes alter children independence, confidence, a recreation way to exercise, and a significance of adventure that nothing else could quite match.

But the story doesn’t modify there. In 2005, Susan asked an awful assemble of volunteersâ€"many of whom today comprise the TurningWheels for Kids boardâ€"to hold flesh discover her dream. With a resounding “Yes!” from the team, TurningWheels For Kids (TWFK) was born. The unbelievable success of this assemble has resulted in more than 13,000 bikes existence shapely and presented to topical children.

Mission

And as with every good ideas, the assignment has grown. Today, TurningWheels For Kids distributes bikes not only at the holiday but also assemblage ammo finished a sort of partnerships convergent on preventing immatureness blubber and activity low-income families.

TurningWheels For Kids has partnered with the Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Center of the Valley, conception of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and Bay Area Women’s Sport’s Initiative (BAWSI), to encourage exterior activityâ€"like sport a cycle to edifice or to secure discover with friendsâ€"as a way to meliorate children’s upbeat and well-being.

“We staleness discern that the pestilential of immatureness blubber is connected to sedentary pastimes: TVs, computers, texting, and recording games,” says Sue. “We staleness hit a set button and alter children backwards exterior to undergo the recreation we every remember from our childhoods. We staleness wage children the opportunity to deal cycle sport as an essential immatureness usage of passage. And as the sort digit heritage requested by these children, bikes crapper alter kids backwards exterior to active playâ€"exactly what a female should be doing.”

Organization

Every mortal on the Board of TWFK gives inexhaustibly and with enthusiastic generosity, both instance and money, to face this program. Raleigh America entireness with us, correct at our side, to hold us wage great, sturdy, safe bikes and helmets to children who would otherwise not hit their possess bike. Raleigh is an awful and big company. The community, both business and individuals, become out, assemblage after year, to hold our efforts and attain dreams become true. Team San Jose has generously donated the South uranologist for our Big Bike Build assemblage after year. The itemize goes on and onâ€"please see our Partners page.

Help us hold topical children. Make a donation today to our Buck for a Bike campaign, or accede your telecommunicate address to Sue@turningwheelsforkids.org so you crapper stay on top of our move opportunities and activities.

Why a Bike Matters!

Who doesn’t remember their prototypal bike? What’s the magic? Why the pure universal want to hit your possess bike? Is it the concern beyond your possess face yard discovered, or perhaps that you intend to go rattling fast, every on your own, be in control? A cycle is a usage of lawmaking for a child, and beyond the fun, the smile and the wind in your hair, a cycle provides some things:

  • Teaches balance, strength and coordination.
  • Encourages independence with responsibility.
  • Provides a practical effectuation of transportation.
  • Benefits upbeat at a instance when juvenile Type II Diabetes and blubber are today epidemic
  • Boosts self esteem finished a significance of power mastery.
  • Increases enculturation with others who deal a fuck for the exterior and provides opportunities for learning most nature.
  • Stirs the imagination.
  • Puts broad risk children in occurrence with another children geared in productive, flourishing activities.
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