Comments on: A Week of Giving Away Bicycles, Day 1: Bikes for Schoolchildren in Zambia

By: Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Bikes and Business

Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Bikes and Business — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:19:09 +0000

[...] three big ways. The biggest way — the way I’ve focused on in my fundraisers — is bikes for schoolchildren. The second way is by providing bikes to community [...]

By: Donating to the Grand Slam for Zambia 2 | My Green Misadventure

Donating to the Grand Slam for Zambia 2 | My Green Misadventure — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:48:20 +0000

[...] If you want an idea of what this can mean to a community, check out the post where some of the bicycles are distributed. [...]

By: Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Seven New Prizes Today: A Week of Giving Away Bicycles, Day 3

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:31:04 +0000

[...] to day 3 of a Week of Giving Away Bicycles. To recap, on Monday we talked about the whole purpose of this fundraising monster: getting bicycles to kids in Zambia, vastly improving their chances at getting an education, a job, [...]

By: Jodi

Jodi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:59:36 +0000

That video of them singing actually brought tears to my eyes. Seriously beautiful. Lucky you. Lucky them.

By: Jenni

Jenni — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:57:04 +0000

Dumb question, but here goes:

If no one has bikes (or presumably very very few), how do they know how to ride a bike?

That’s a great question, and one I wondered myself as I saw these kids just take off on their new bikes. I wish I would have asked. – FC

By: Davidh-Marin,ca

Davidh-Marin,ca — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:27:32 +0000

Fatty. You failed to mention stature, as another area where you are “picked on”. And by “stature” I don’t mean award winning, race winning(some dispute there) comedic mastermind, I’m suggesting another definition.

@Marc. Read Fatty’s and your response to Wife#1 (yes we do talk to each other in forums other than this blog post) and all is good in the world.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:56:05 +0000

Wife#1, you are right. I immediately regretted posting that. I tried to find a way to delete it but to no avail. That discussion doesn’t belong here.

I think the whole conversation can go. That was totally gracious of you, BTW. – FC

By: Wife#1

Wife#1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:30:25 +0000

Excellent, with annual bonus determined, we just “gave” 4 bikes as Christmas gifts. 2 for the grandparents and 2 for our kids. Not sure I did it correctly to be entered into the contest, but I’m still living the dream of the signed Chris Horner socks anyway from AKChick. :-)

We’ll see if we can wrangle the funds for a couple more before all is said and done. And for my sweet husband’s sake, I’ll make sure I enter those correctly for the contest. I saw his ears perk up when he read “bikes” as giveaways.

Alas we learned last year that no matching gift option from David’s employer because it happens outside the US, bummer!

Thanks for making the Christmas shopping a little easier Fatty. Say, when is the weight loss event going to begin? I’m a ringer for this year!

By: Davidh-Marin,ca

Davidh-Marin,ca — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:07:14 +0000

So wife#1 just woo hooo’d that her bonus was set. Sounds like a few family members are getting new ‘bikes’ this Christmas! When she said she was getting bikes for her father for Christmas, my first thought was he’s not going to ride that in the city (SF). Then she
s’plained it to me.

By: rich

rich — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:20:36 +0000

Wow, what an amazing story and once again…THANK YOU for finding awesome and creative ways that we can do good!