M.A.D. Dads

This is my first post on my new blog! Although this blog is supposed to be about cycling on Nebraska's trails and roads, the weather is a little too cold right now for doing much cycling. Since cycling is pretty much limited because of the cold and lack of daylight, what other cycling related things can we do?

The Nov. 22 issue of the Lincoln Journal Star's Neighborhood Extra mentioned that the M.A.D. Dad's bike give-away was in jeopardy this year. They needed both help and money to finish repairing about 250 bikes to give to kids on the Winnebago Indian reservation. This sounded like a perfect project for our group! After asking group members for their thoughts on this, and getting 9 immediate volunteers, I called Matt at the M.A.D. Dads shop to see if we could help. He said "Sure!". We set up 5 time slots between Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 and filled them all with volunteers from our group. Over this week-long period, we were able to finish repairing the bikes for the Winnebago kids, help load the bikes into a horse trailer for transport and repair many more bikes on the shop floor. Matt commented that he could actually see the shop floor now! Congratulations to John, Cindy, Yvonne, Brad, Steve, Steve, Linda, Christie, Kevin, Brian, Dallas, Quentin and their families for a job well done! Matt says that he might give us a call after the first of the year for another project.