Freewheels Houston is a community united by bikes: people who volunteer to repair bikes; refugees, veterans and young people who need transportation to work and school, and Houstonians who support our efforts in other ways–bike donors, case managers and financial contributors. These are some of their stories.
Wrongfully accused and deprived of his freedom, his home and his job, Luis fought back. This U.S. Army veteran got the charges dismissed. Then he got a Freewheels Houston bike that he will ride to a job interview for a job as a welder. Luis heard about Freewheels from a…
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“My day job is mostly ‘pushing paper’ (or the electronic version of it),” says Freewheels Houston volunteer Paul Morris, a regular member of the bike prep crew. “Spending a few hours cleaning up a dirty, rusty bike gives me a visual, tangible result of my work.” “I cannot say it…
