LINC Gladstone students, left to right, Garry, Alcario and Zkyha talk about their new bicycles from BikeWalkKC. It’s not the sparkling green paint job that Garry mentions first when listing favorite things about his new bike.
Not the smooth glide. Not the speed.
The Gladstone Elementary student in LINC’s Caring Communities program was in love with the brakes. He stood astride his bike, squeezing the levers on each handlebar, watching the pads flex against the rims of the wheels.
“It’s really easy to, like, stop it,” he said, “and get it slower in case you’re going too fast and you think you might fall off.”
He and a dozen classmates on this late fall Friday afternoon had just taken their first spin around the block on bikes gifted to them by BikeWalkKC, culminating a week of after-school safety lessons at LINC. LINC students at Gladstone learn how gears work with BikeWalkKC. “I love how you can switch gears,” student Alcario said about the red-and-black bike he’d picked out. “And I love how there’s nothing wrong with it.”
These were some of the testimonies from LINC’s latest collaboration with BikeWalkKC to join BikeWalk’s vision of a healthy, safe city for all.
The students had held up their end of the bargain. They’d watched and listened as a team from BikeWalkKC came to Gladstone with a collection of bikes and led the students in a week of after-school lessons on bike safety, operation and maintenance. The students had studied and passed the written test.Now the students, many […]
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