Gentle Giant Puts 4th & 5th Graders to Work... But Without Pay?

It's probably best you hear this from me before the story gets blown out of proportion and the facts get skewed. Brace yourself.

Earlier this week, Gentle Giant teamed up with local charity organization CYCLE Kids to help 4th & 5th graders get out and active on brand new bicycles. For our part in this great event, 2 of our Giants went Monday to the Wheelworks of Somerville and Belmont warehouse to pick up 70 brand new, disassembled bikes that after the magic of community service got through with them, would wind up in the hands of excited youngsters throughout Cambridge.

On Tuesday morning, the Giants brought the still in box bikes to the Kennedy-Longfellow School in Cambridge, who have previously been the recipients of CYCLE Kids' generosity. Before long, the kids and community volunteers were tearing through the boxes and putting together the bikes. Wheelworks mechanics would then go through the bikes to ensure their safety while the Cambridge Police Bike Patrol Unit talked to the kids about safe riding and responsibility.

After all the bikes were assembled properly and the kids celebrated their success by running around thanking everyone, we loaded the bikes back into our big purple trucks for the final step of the process.

Wednesday morning started nice and early as our Giants set out to deliver the bikes to seven different Cambridge schools. I know by the looks the kids faces at the Amigos School, Baldwin School, Cambridgeport School, Fletcher-Maynard School, Grahamand Parks School, Peabody School, and Tobin School that they can't wait to ride.

We are proud to support organizations like CYCLE Kids and if you know of any other causes that could benefit from Gentle Giant's services, don't hesitate to let me know.