ALL WHEELS VOLUNTEERS ARE BACKYARD HEROES!

Our dedicated volunteers make Wheels for Winners a great organization delivering over 400 bikes annually to other deserving community service volunteers!

A special thank you to Community Shares for their support and to Isthmus, 105.5 Triple M and Budget Signs for sponsoring the awards!

Each month Community Shares of Wisconsin presents the Backyard Hero Award to organizations and people making change happen in our community.

This month’s hero is Neil Lerner, a board member of Wheels for Winners, an organization that provides bicycles to individuals who perform community service, especially to youth and others who could not normally afford a bicycle. Neil’s efforts have helped greatly increase the community presence of Wheels for Winners. Thank you, Neil!

The Backyard Hero Awards are sponsored by Isthmus, 105.5 Triple M, and Budget Signs Specialties.

https://www.communityshares.com/backyard-hero-neil-lerner/

Two New Volunteer Wrenchers Complete 1st Bikes

Welcome Ryland and Andrea, two new volunteer mechanics to our team!

They both are fast becoming experts at refurbishing small child size bikes and will soon be working on larger youth and adult bikes. Our mechanic training program includes a detailed process of cleaning, adjusting or replacing, every part of a bike.

Did you know that the bicycle coaster brake in use today on child bikes was invented in 1898?

We take apart the coaster brake, inspect all of the parts, clean and grease the entire brake. A coaster brake is designed to run with all its internal parts coated in grease for quiet operation and smooth engagement.

Youth Earner Gets a Cool Fat Tire Bike

A lucky bike earner gets a like new, Mongoose Fat Tire bike. We don't get many of these and not usually in such great condition. We hope he enjoys the freedom riding up and down the alleys in his neighborhood, to his friends, parks and other favorite places. And he will be ready for some winter snow riding.

When I was his age, I had a green Schwinn Varsity 3-Speed, hand-me-down from my cousin. Most of my friends had similar 3-speed, state of the art bikes.

I wonder what my friends and I would have thought about a bike like that Fat Tire! Bikes sure have changed!