Individuals who fix up used bicycles and give them away are getting some well-deserved recognition in Wisconsin and North Carolina.
The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin bestowed its annual advocate/educator award to Larry Frostman and Jim Traenkenschuh. The pair have restored and given away more than 500 bicycles in the past two years through their Stanley Project.
How'd they get started? “I just like working on bikes,” Traenkenshuh told the Stevens Point Journal. They have plenty to do; the garage they use as a bike shop houses 600 used bicycles.
Meanwhile, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is honoring Moses Mathis — aka The Bicycle Man — at a banquet on Nov. 10.
Mathis has fixed up and given away some 8,000 bicycles to area kids over the years, but the MLK Committee sold the property where Mathis repairs bikes (Tiffany Pines Community Outreach Center) to an Atlanta-based apartment developer. After weeks of controversy, the new owners agreed to let Mathis stay through the Christmas season, then to vacate.
Fayetteville Online reports that half of the proceeds from this year's annual banquet will go toward helping Mathis find a new location for his bike center.
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