The Flying Pistons event during Daytona Bike week marked the continuing “All Kids Bike” outreach program as the world’s leading custom builders put their spin on Strider balance bikes. But it goes back before that. The Strider Education Foundation was formed as a 501c3 a few years ago. About two years ago Strider started a campaign called “All Kids Bike” — Its mission is to teach every child in America how to ride a bike in kindergarten PE class. The progress made in those two years has 248 schools in 37 states running the program.
In fact, 41,000 kids are known to be learning to ride this past year alone. The 5 year impact from those programs will result in nearly a quarter of a million more kids having learned to ride. That is a great start, but there is still a long way to go.
“Money makes the world go ‘round, and in this instance, money makes the wheels go ‘round for these kids,” says Buffalo Chip impresario Rod Woodruff. “The school program is delivering results in short order by equipping kids with a lifetime skill and increasing those kids’ health and happiness on a daily basis. The All Kids Bike program is so dialed in that it is being accomplished for just under $10/kid… tax-deductible!”
Woody called upon the industry to join him in getting kids on two wheels. “To give you a sense of what this program is all about and how it is impacting lives… even beyond learning to ride, I encourage you to check out this short and glorious video of the program running in schools in South Dakota. We believed in this program so much that we put our money where our mouth is.”
