ByK Bikes for NZ Schoolkids

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:00

A gift of Byk Kids Bikes was recently given to a New Zealand school in an effort to coax kids back into riding.  It coincides with the Prime Minister John Key's 'Bikes in the School' initiative.

62 Byk Kids Bikes were given to a local school, a gift totalling about $75,000 which includes helmets, bike tracks, a bike shed and an elite cyclist to coach the youngets.  The gift was given by Paul McArdle, a Hastings man, who had lived and worked in Amsterdam and was astonished to see so few children riding bicycles in New Zealand.

You can read the full article in the Wellington Newspaper, The Dominion Post, online at: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/3347120/Gift-coaxes-schoolkids-back-to-bikes.

Also check out the news release video here at http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/lifestyle/32843.html

and the fantastic video showing the new St Mary's bike track in motion - http://vimeo.com/9512419