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Founder, The Bike Gangs of Fort Worth.
In November of 2016, with a vision of "neighboring," I took my kids and a few others from our street on a bike ride and called it a "bike gang." We rode through the neighborhood, stopped to play at a park, and when we were done we had snack and hung out.
The Park Glen Bike Gang, a.k.a. The Peegeebeegeez, grew quickly and we got to know our neighbors and life became richer.
In January 2017 I met a little girl in the neighborhood who had a bike but she kept it at her dad's house. I bought a second hand bike and with her parent's permission gave it to her to keep at her mom's house. This interaction sparked the idea of offering free bike repairs and free bikes.
During the next two years other Fort Worth neighborhoods adopted the family-friendly bike gang model.
In 2019 I formally asked the bike-friendly City of Fort Worth for their supply of discarded or impounded bicycles, promising to rehabilitate them and give them to Fort Worth residents, and was initially told no, the City citing liability and fairness concerns.
During 2020 I founded a non-profit association, The Bike Gangs of Fort Worth, to serve as the umbrella organization over all of the Fort Worth bike gang chapters, and to facilitate changing the City's position to think bigger and give us the bikes.
On August 11th, 2020, the first five chapters of The Bike Gangs of Fort Worth were on hand at city council when a resolution was passed establishing the Community Bike Builder program.
The next part of the vision involves more neighborhood chapters added, more bicycles traded up or repaired, and more bicycles given away, all within our mission of removing barriers, neighboring, and creating miles of smiles.
We will establish free neighborhood bike shops, further removing barriers and creating another "neighboring place."
We will offer or partner to bring more learn to ride safely, learn to ride at a late age, learn to repair, learn to neighbor, and learn to lead opportunities.
... we hope our sister cities in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex will join us and establish chapters or execute similar structure and vision.
... we are eager to see other municipalities replicate our easy, scalable barrier-free neighboring model, establish chapters, or execute similar structure and vision.