Earlier this week I was listening to The Fredcast podcast. The host, David Bernstein, interviewed Mark Smith about the orgina and purpose of the Bikes for Goodness Sake Foundation. According the Bikes for Goodness Sake website, “BFGS coordinates efforts with local sponsors, media, and bike shops to give that feeling to underprivileged children in your community. If you have a bike shop in your community, then you can easily help give such children in your town that special gift of goodness called a bike.”

On December 20, 2008 Bikes for Goodness Sake is working the 12 Bike Shops around Texas and the Texas National Guard to give 600 brand new bike-shop-quality bikes to the children of deployed or deploying soldiers.  Each bike and helmet will cost $142.

Do you remember your first bike?

Do you remember that feeling you had with your first bike?

Please share that feeling with a child; a child whose parents are in, or going to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Start a ripple that turns into a wave of generosity and goodwill from 50,000 people to these children.  Just $2 from each of us gives a child a memory that will last a lifetime – that memory of a first bike.

BFGS is working with the Texas Military Forces State Family Program to give 50 bikes and helmets to the children of deploying soldiers in Dallas, Fort Worth, Temple, Austin, Tyler, San Antonio, Houston, Lubbock, El Paso, Laredo, Weslaco, and Corpus Christi for a total of 600 bikes and helmets in the state of Texas.