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Ten years ago, aback he absolved into the Wheels for Winners bike shop, Fred Appleton said that, like abounding people, he had an abstraction of how to fix a annoy and put a alternation aback on.
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Soon he was rehabbing old bicycles and seeing that they went to admirable children.
"We don’t accept to accept volunteers who apperceive how to fix bikes. We charge volunteers who appetite to apprentice how to fix bikes," said Appleton, 75, who not alone serves as a bike artisan for the organization, but has been on the Wheels for Winners lath the accomplished four years.
Wheels for Winners acclaimed its 20th ceremony Sunday at Glass Nickel Pizza Co. on Atwood Avenue, aloof accomplish abroad from the cramped, hidden boutique it leases beyond from Lowell Elementary School.
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The non-profit organization, founded by above Dane County Lath affiliate Ruth Ann Schoer, is run absolutely by volunteers and is accurate through grants and donations.
Wheels for Winners takes donated acclimated bicycles, refurbishes them, and gives abroad amid 150 and 175 of them a year, mostly to low-income children. To qualify, accouchement charge complete 15 hours of association account or apprehend and address on bristles books.
"I never anticipation that it would be actuality 20 years aback I started," said the organization’s longest-serving volunteer, Charlotte Marshall, 83, who aftermost ages apparent 19 years as appointment manager.
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When it started, Wheels for Winners was amid in the Nakoma adjacency on the West Side, but was affected out aback Home Depot was built. It again spent abounding years on Pennsylvania Avenue, abreast Oscar Mayer, but larboard that area due to flooding. It has been on Fair Oaks Avenue for the aftermost four years.
Customers and donors admission the characterless architecture from a aback alley. "It’s not much, but it serves our purposes," said Marshall, who will never balloon the faculty of comfort she got one day aback she adapted 29 accouchement for helmets and locks.
"There’s absolute achievement to see their eyes ablaze up," Appleton agreed. "They’ve becoming the bike. It’s article they did on their own."
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Getting the accouchement adapted on their bikes and helmeted, is a collaborative effort, he said. "No one leaves after a helmet, lock and burghal bike license."
Everyone remembers the activity of accepting their aboriginal bike, said lath affiliate Richard Castelnuovo, who volunteers one night a anniversary acclimation bikes and giving them away.
Castelnuovo talks about one adolescent who angry up after alive how to ride, and spending 20 account accepting him adequate on the two-wheeler.
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"It was like the ancestor blame you off. The aboriginal advance area you let a kid go, aback they alpha pedaling on their own," he said. "That was great. That’s why I anticipate we all do it."
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