Tweet, tweet and we were off for the 11th Annual Three-Boro Bike Ride for Health.
On Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 8:00am 107 kids in oversized helmets and adults wearing spandex rode their bikes eighteen miles through the streets of New York at a slow meditative pace, escorted by a line of loud, burly, motorcycles. About a third of the participants came through Recycle-a-Bicycle; 14 kids from the Bedford Stuyvesant Urban Assembly, 7 kids from the Long Island Ride club, 10 kids from IS 318, and 3 RAB workers.
The free ride was organized by the Woodhull Medical Center and like many of the glorious rides of the past, Recycle- a-Bicycle had a generous offering of used bikes and helmets for bicyclists who didn't own a bike or a helmet. Everyone was clad in free cotton T-shirts from the hospital, promoting the bike ride; so, as we rode through the sunny streets of people cheerfully waving, they could read our shirts and understand that we were riding for "Health."
Additionally, the hospital provided a copious breakfast and lunch, so no one was riding on an empty stomach. With all the necessities of an awesome bike-ride fulfilled (all free of charge), nothing would have been better on a Saturday morning.