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On Race Day, Bring Your Extra Set of Wheels to DreamBikes

Underprivileged kids need bikes and they need job skills. DreamBikes puts that together, and asks that you drop off that underused bicycle at the East Tosa Gran Prix on Sunday.

Have you got a bike or two that the kids outgrew?

A serviceable second set of wheels you seldom ride anymore?

Even that beloved bike that, well, you're just getting a little too creaky yourself to be jumping onto very often?

Almost everybody has a dusty velocipede sitting in the garage or the basement, and there's no better reason to finally send it on its way than to donate it to DreamBikes.

Wauwatosa City Attorney Alan Kesner is a strong supporter of the non-profit business that hires and trains kids from low-income families to repair donated bicycles to sell at affordable prices to other low-income kids who need a bike.

DreamBikes has stores in Madison and Milwaukee, where employees as young as 14 can learn mechanical and marketing skills fixing up and selling gently used bikes. The Milwaukee store is at 2021 Martin Luther King Drive.

Through the Wauwatosa Wellness Program, DreamBikes has been invited to set up a donation site at the East Tosa Gran Prix on Sunday, and Kesner has been urging city employees to participate.

But he wants every Wauwatosa resident and visitor to the race to know that they are encouraged to donate, too.

"Clean out that Garage! Do good for your Community! How could it get better than that?" Kesner wrote in a press release.

The city is devoting the public parking lot at 72nd Street and North Avenue to the effort, and Kesner hopes to see lots of excess bicycles line up there between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. 

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"Let’s make this a good one for DreamBikes!" Kesner concluded. And how. Bring 'em on down.

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The East Tosa Gran Prix is the last day of the 11-day Tour of America's Dairyland criterium bike races, for the first time in Wauwatosa, all day Sunday with races for all ages and skills.

The race course is from 69th Street west to Lefeber Avenue, north to Meinecke Avenue, back east to 69th and then south to the starting point


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