I am biking to honor my mom, Rose Spielman, who was a huge supporter of Bikes Not Bombs. Biking has always been a huge passion for her - when she was younger she biked across the entire country and up until the point where she could not walk unassisted she was biking 60 miles a week. She loved sharing her passion of biking with other, from teaching my brother and I how to bike to working with Bikes Not Bombs to make the world a better place through bikes :)

Bikes Not Bombs is an incredible organization that works with both within the US with the greater Boston community and internationally to improve economic inequalities through bikes. In the Boston area, they have a bike shop and community programs that teach bike mechanics, giving youth the opportunity to develop these skills and then get to keep the bike they worked on. Internationally, the distribute bikes to areas experiencing resource insecurity to foster sustainable projects for economic development.

My mom's passion for Bikes Not Bombs was shown in her excitement for their bike-a-thons, as well as collecting hundreds of bikes for the organization through hosting bike drives in our local community. I believe she hosted the largest bike drive they had! 

To honor my mom, I decided that I would try to go for the challenge and bike 100 kilometers. However, I just started biking this August, so this will be quite the challenge for me! I appreciate any support you can provide, whether that is donations to Bikes Not Bombs, encouraging words, or even biking with me! Thank you for your support!