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Turning Wheels for Kids–Big Bike Build pre-registration

  • Fri, October 17, 2014
  • 8:00 AM
  • Sat, October 25, 2014
  • 11:30 PM
  • online
Turning Wheels for Kids (TWFK) is a charitable organization, staffed by volunteers, whose mission is to provide bicycles and helmets to kids whose parents can't afford to buy them. Each year in December hundreds of volunteers from local clubs and corporations gather together at the McEnery Convention Center in downtown San Jose in a joyous, festive atmosphere to assemble a few thousand of these bikes at the Big Bike Build (BBB).

TWFK provides breakfast, lunch and validated parking (limited spaces available, carpooling encouraged) to volunteers. Volunteers spend from 8 am to about 1 pm at the event. While most will assemble bikes—from kids' coaster-brake bikes with training wheels to low-end mountain-bikes or road-bikes with derailleurs, volunteers are also needed to perform quality control (inspect assembled bikes for correct assembly and setup), help at event check-in, clear cartons and debris from the work areas to recycling bins, and/or help unload boxed bikes from and load assembled bikes into transport trucks.

Last year (2013) was the first time the Western Wheelers sent a team. The 5 team members all had a great time building bikes at the event. This year the Western Wheelers will subsidize $50 of each member's $100 pre-registration fee, for up to 10 member-volunteers.

The BBB itself is on Saturday December 6, 2014 from 8 am until about 1 pm. Pre-registration opens Friday October 17, 2014 at 8 am Pacific Time, and ends Saturday October 25, 2014 at 11:30 pm Pacific Time.

Contact Michael Khaw first to find out whether you’re among the first 10, i.e., to qualify for the club subsidy. Then, go to the pre-registration web page, click “Participate as an individual” and pay the full amount of $100 (plus $6.24 fee) with your credit card. Email a copy of your pre-registration confirmation to Michael Khaw, who will compile a list of members who volunteered and submit it to the club for your $50 reimbursement.

Please join the Western Wheelers team!

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