It’s Just A Bike Ride

It was supposed to be a guy riding a bike.

Dreams don’t work like that, not if you listen to them. A dream is a story waiting to be written, and a story worth sharing is about much more than one bike ride.

Next Saturday the story takes us to Harvest Farm, where a group of men work and live and find a new life in recovery from addiction. A bunch of these guys will join us for the 58-mile leg of our journey from Cheyenne to Fort Collins. On Saturday, some bike mechanics with varying degrees of expertise will visit the farm and work beside these men to get their bikes in shape.

I’m not exactly sure how this fun project began. I teach a workshop at the farm and we do this bike tour, and someone suggested it would be cool if we joined the ideas together and got some of the guys from the farm involved.

Home State Bank caught the vision and agreed to join as a community sponsor. With their generous support we can purchase helmets, jerseys, bike parts, tubes, tires, and used bikes (from the Fort Collins bike co-op) for men who don’t have them. Then we work with them to show how to repair, tune, and maintain their bikes as they train.

On June 20 they’ll join the FREEDOM TOUR team as we ride the first day of our 500-mile ride. These guys get to be part of a bigger cause, knowing they’re riding to support kids in a HOME OF HOPE on the other side of the world.

This all happens because the leaders at Home State Bank choose to invest in community by supporting this project for two years in a row. Their leadership expands our circle to include Harvest Farm, Fort Collins Bike Co-Op, and several new bike mechanics. The buzz at the farm is growing as some of last year’s riders become this year’s leaders.

A dream is a story waiting to be written. The chapter of the community connection between Home State Bank and Harvest Farm is pretty cool.

I wonder what’s next?

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