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Article: Needy kids get chance to ride
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- December 22, 2007
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Rich Kragness hoisted a small Spider-Man bike onto an old bicycle
stand and rubbed his hands together, his breath fogging in the
warehouse air as he wiped the handles with an old cloth.
"It just called to me," he said. "It's a cute little bike. It
needs a home."
Thanks to Kragness, 47, and other volunteers who participated in
the 4th annual Free Ride Kids Bike Build-a-Thon in East Liberty,
more than 60 recycled and repaired bicycles will have homes with
needy children.
Free Ride is a nonprofit shop that allows people of all ages to
exchange their skills in maintaining and building bikes in return
for tools and supplies to build and maintain their own, said Eric
Boerer, shop coordinator and ...