Philly-Area Nonprofits Join Together For Community Bike Build
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Riding a bike can give you that feeling of power and freedom, and now four Philadelphia nonprofits that use bikes to share that feeling will have more of the tools they need.
Volunteers crammed a work room at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia on Chestnut Street Sunday morning, and made quick work of the parts for 100 bicycles, donated by Northeast Philadelphia-based Advanced Sports International. Randy LoBasso of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia says the response to the second annual bike build was overwhelming.
"We started out at 10 a.m., and so it's been about an hour and 45 minutes, which is must faster than we expected," he says.
Inspecting the finished products was Performance Bikes mechanic Wanya Cave, who says he was a wild kid until he got involved in Cadence Youth Cycling, a competitive cycling group that will receive several bikes built at the event.
"I'm giving back to the same group of kids that I classified myself as," Cave says, "And to me, that's awesome."
Also in line to get some of the newly built bikes, Neighborhood Bike Works and the Philly Pumptrack, which both work with underserved youth.
