Build Something REAL, and Make a Real Difference!

This year's Bike Build will be held on Dec. 12th, 2009. We will gather at the Kiwanis Club of South Orlando at 9:00 in the morning and build 1,000 bikes. And we won't stop till they're all done. Food, fun and a lot of good work will be done, helping the kids of our community have the Christmas that so many of us had.


This years goal is 1,000 bikes and trikes and ride-ons for kids in our community. We need your help, with building of course, but also in raising the funds to buy the bikes. We buy directly from Huffy and also from local partner stores that give us great discounts on unassembled bikes. Then, on build day, we bust them out of their boxes and start building. In 2007, the year shown in the video above, we built 546 bikes in just over 4 1/2 hours. And that's with 95 % of the folks never having done it before. And they all worked great. In 2008, we built 600 bikes in just as much time, with over 130 great volunteers.


We gave 300 of those bikes to "Toys for Tots" last year, but we also gave 300 to local charities, schools, and churches that had lists of kids that were going to have little or no Christmas. We can't tell you the feeling, the feeling of knowing that kids, local kids, got something that we built, and put our heart and sweat in to. We made a difference in a child's life. You can too!

Here's how:

The average cost of a bike we buy is $30; that's still in the box. All the money we collect goes to pay just for the bikes. The facility, the tools, and the fun and food ( oh, did I mention the SOK famous BBQ) are donated. Again, all the money donated goes to buying the bikes. We'll need $30,000 to buy all 1,000 of the bikes we'll want to build.


You can donate to:
Bikes and Trikes for Tikes, Inc.
P.O. Box 622284
Orlando, FL 32862-2284

OR

Call: Thomas Kirk at 321-297-9024
for more information.





"Build something real, and make a difference in a child's life."

And here's how it all started.