Freewheels Houston was recognized on May 17, 2025 with a mayoral proclamation of Freewheels Houston Day presented by Houston City Council Member Edward Pollard. The Houston Chronicle and FOX26’s Isaiah Carey used the event to report on Freewheels activities. Pollard and his staff chose Freewheels for his District J Bike…
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Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist, reformer and leader of the long battle to gain the legal right to vote for women, saw bicycles as a way to give women freedom and self-reliance. “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling,” Anthony told journalist Nellie Bly. “I think it has done…
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Houston Chronicle reporter Ryan Nickerson focused on Freewheels Houston’s opportunities for volunteer bike mechanics in a recent story. “Moving to Houston, I found Freewheels because I was looking for something that I could do with my mechanic experience,” said Adawi. “It’s nice seeing how you spend time working on something and…
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Members of a Rohingya family–refugees resettled in Houston–received bikes from Freewheels Houston on Jan. 25. The oldest son, 14-year-old Abdul, asked a case manager at Catholic Charities about bikes for him and his brother and sister, and then his dad decided he needed one as well. They are pictured with…
