article_snippet: In addition to mountain bike excursions, the group provides bike mechanic training and the chance for young people to earn credit toward young people own bikes.
article_snippet: For many of the young people in your program, this is many of the young people in your program first time on a mountain bike.
article_snippet: They can get on a bike and go to a place that is very much unlike where They live and do something positive.
article_snippet: And They experience goes beyond bike trips.
article_snippet: The second is our Earn-a-Bike program, where kids in the community come after school.
article_snippet: They learn bike mechanics, and while They're participating They are earning credit.
article_snippet: They can use it to buy bikes or parts.
article_snippet: They're buying bikes for They, for They parents or siblings.
article_snippet: The third (program) is our bike thrift shop, where anyone in the community can come shop for a discounted bike.
article_snippet: All of the bikes and bike gear are donated.
article_snippet: It's easy to use the bike to introduce kids to the environment because the bike is universally loved by children.
article_snippet: the bike allows us to introduce the bike is universally loved by children to a healthy lifestyle and good work habits.
article_snippet: They all do bike rides and then some of They all, as They all get more developed like we did, also start They all own Earn-a-Bike programs or They all own bike thrift shops to support They all.