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Cadence Cycling Foundation in USA Triathlon magazine
USA Triathlon Summer 2011
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USA Triathlon Summer 2011
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Central Bucks Bicycle Club donates $5,000 to Cadence Cycling Foundation
Central Bucks Bicycle Club - July 17, 2011
Ed Hein (right), Chairperson of the Central Bucks Bicycle Club’s (CBBC) Grant Committee, presents a check in the amount of $5,000 to Ryan Oelkers, co-founder of the Cadence Cycling Foundation. Pictured behind are youths participating in the Arsenal Criterium Race at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Read the full article
Central Bucks Bicycle Club - July 17, 2011
Ed Hein (right), Chairperson of the Central Bucks Bicycle Club’s (CBBC) Grant Committee, presents a check in the amount of $5,000 to Ryan Oelkers, co-founder of the Cadence Cycling Foundation. Pictured behind are youths participating in the Arsenal Criterium Race at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Read the full article
Cycling comes to the inner city
Philadelphia Inquirer - May 19, 2011
As a 15-year-old, Sam Cowans knew that cycling through the hardscrabble streets of West Philadelphia in high-tech tights would invite plenty of hoots and hollers.
Now, three years later, some of the same kids who wondered why Cowans had become enamored of such a strange sport rather than basketball or football go to his races to watch the Mastery Charter School senior compete... Read the full article
Philadelphia Inquirer - May 19, 2011
As a 15-year-old, Sam Cowans knew that cycling through the hardscrabble streets of West Philadelphia in high-tech tights would invite plenty of hoots and hollers.
Now, three years later, some of the same kids who wondered why Cowans had become enamored of such a strange sport rather than basketball or football go to his races to watch the Mastery Charter School senior compete... Read the full article
Urban Legend
Bicycling Magazine - Bike Advocacy
If the idea Ryan Oelkers had was unlikely-to introduce the sport of bike racing to kids living in the toughest inner-city neighborhoods of Philadelphia-the outcome was absolutely unforeseeable.
After the jumping jacks, Leroy leads the team through a hard series of core-building exercises, including planks, crunches, push-ups, and leg lifts. All the kids hang in, including Josh, although he barely lifts an inch during the push-ups and, during the planks, plops wearily on the floor. Leroy and the other kids gently encourage him. Then comes 10 more minutes of stair running, followed by more crunches and push-ups. There's no complaining or malingering, and when Oelkers asks if they want to call it quits, go home a little early today, the kids unanimously say no. Even Josh nods, signaling that he wants more... Read the full article
Bicycling Magazine - Bike Advocacy
If the idea Ryan Oelkers had was unlikely-to introduce the sport of bike racing to kids living in the toughest inner-city neighborhoods of Philadelphia-the outcome was absolutely unforeseeable.
After the jumping jacks, Leroy leads the team through a hard series of core-building exercises, including planks, crunches, push-ups, and leg lifts. All the kids hang in, including Josh, although he barely lifts an inch during the push-ups and, during the planks, plops wearily on the floor. Leroy and the other kids gently encourage him. Then comes 10 more minutes of stair running, followed by more crunches and push-ups. There's no complaining or malingering, and when Oelkers asks if they want to call it quits, go home a little early today, the kids unanimously say no. Even Josh nods, signaling that he wants more... Read the full article
For these students, success comes on two wheels
The Philly Inquirer - Mon, Feb. 7, 2011
Three years ago, LeRoy Hayes was overweight and shy. "I used to walk around with my head down. I didn't talk to anybody." At 5-6 and 283 pounds, the 10th grader was obese and pre-diabetic. Climbing the stairs left him panting. He was an unlikely recruit for the new bike team at his charter school in West Philadelphia.
The first few times he rode a bike, he was so wobbly that he needed a steadying hand. On the modest hill near the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, he would dismount halfway up and walk to the top... Read the full article
The Philly Inquirer - Mon, Feb. 7, 2011
Three years ago, LeRoy Hayes was overweight and shy. "I used to walk around with my head down. I didn't talk to anybody." At 5-6 and 283 pounds, the 10th grader was obese and pre-diabetic. Climbing the stairs left him panting. He was an unlikely recruit for the new bike team at his charter school in West Philadelphia.
The first few times he rode a bike, he was so wobbly that he needed a steadying hand. On the modest hill near the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, he would dismount halfway up and walk to the top... Read the full article
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