PRMS Collects 70 Bikes for Free Ride Charity

Students at Pine-Richland Middle School collected 70 bicycles and assorted spare parts to donate to a non-profit group called Free Ride.

The bike drive resulted in one of the largest donations of bicycles that Free Ride has received. The organization recycles used bikes for children and adults. It also provides bikes to support a variety of youth programs.

PRMS Community Outreach Committee members placed signs throughout the middle school and broadcast announcements to get the word out.  

“We were hoping for 20 bikes for Free Ride, but they just kept coming,” said Brandon Singer, a seventh-grader who helped initiate the project.  “I don’t think we could have fit another bike in the truck.”

As volunteers unloaded the bikes at Free Ride's facility in Point Breeze, a man stopped by to see if there were bikes at Free Ride for his children.  

He quickly found the perfect ones for his children and his neighbor’s children.  

“We then drove the bikes to his house in the truck,” Singer reported. “That was the best part.  We actually got to see how excited his kids were when he gave them the bikes.”