How to Earn-a-Bike

Complete with a new helmet and lock.

WHEELS FOR WINNERS provides bicycles for those who could not normally afford them based on completed or a commitment to complete 10 hours or more of volunteer community service. We believe everyone deserves a good bike and everyone can help make our neighborhoods and communities better places to live through our collective effort.

HOW TO Earn Your BIKE!!!

  1. Perform 10 or more hours of volunteer community service.

  2. Fill out the Wheels for Winners Bicycle Application (Click here to Download in English or Spanish) to tell us about yourself and your volunteer work in the community. Print your application and bring it to our Wheels for Winners’ shop. You can also fill out an application at the shop.

  3. If you are new to volunteer community service, you can do any activities that you consider of value to family, friends and neighbors in your community. These may include traditional service such as working in food pantries and community gardens, doing mentoring or promoting social justice. Check out our partner organizations for volunteer opportunities.

  4. Stop by the Wheels for Winners shop at 229 South Fair Oaks Avenue in Madison with your completed application and pick out a bike, helmet and lock. Turn into the alley behind Video Game X-Change and we are in the back of the building. Get directions by clicking on Google Map below. Check our hours at the bottom of this page to make sure we are open. We are open to alternative arrangements to claim bikes, just contact us at wheelsforwinners@gmail.com.

WHO CAN DO COMMUNITY SERVICE TO EARN A BIKE?

Anyone in your family can do community service to earn a bike for anyone in your family.

  • A parent might want to encourage their child to do community service to earn their own bike.

  • A parent could do community service to earn a bike for themselves or one of their children.

  • An older sister or brother can do community service for a younger sibling.

YOU MIGHT ALREADY DO COMMUNITY SERVICE. DO YOU VOLUNTEER AT (These suggestions are not intended to limit you.) :

  • Your place of worship?

  • Your local school, after school activity, or school sports?

  • A local non-profit service or neighborhood organization?

  • Scouts or other youth activity?

  • Food pantries?

  • Community gardens?

  • Cleaning and trash pickup?

  • Tutoring?

  • Social justice or community activism?

 

Happy bike earners at the Wheels for Winners shop.