Photos: Bikes For Tikes gives more than forty bikes to area kids
Bikes For Tikes, an organization with a core of retired Tucson Police personnel, employees and community supporters, plays Santa in giving out more than forty bicycles to area kids, age 3-5, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021. The charity allied with Child Parent Centers Head Start to find kids in need of a new ride and TMC, which provided the helmets.
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John McCall fine tunes the angle of the handle bars on one of the more than 40 bikes lined up and ready to go as Bikes For Tikes distributes them to children, Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021. Bikes For Tikes, with a core of retired Tucson Police Department personnel, employees and community supporters, distributes the bikes to kids three to five years old, through an affiliation with Child Parent Centers Head Start. TMC also provided the helmets for the kids.
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Elijah Voltares gets a hand from his dad, Carlos, steering his new bike down the ramp at the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center and out to the car, one of more than forty kids to get a new ride from Bikes For Tikes, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Bikes For Tikes founder Marty Moreno gets the air pressure just right in the tires, one of the final touches on the forty-one bikes ready to be given to dozens of children, at the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Charlotte Bilang rolls a bike out to get some last minute adjustments at the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, where Bikes For Tikes is getting ready to distribute them to dozens of kids, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Fernanda Martinez takes her brand new bike for a spin in the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, one of more than forty kids age 3-5 to get a new bike from Bikes For Tikes , Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Serenity Sanchez looks over her new bike as the Bikes For Tikes crew makes the final adjustments at the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Bikes For Tikes' Charlotte Bilang helps steer Vanellope Martinez from a collision with a table on her first ride on her new bike at the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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Sebastian Zamora eyes his new bike as it's rolled out during Bikes For Tikes distribution of more than forty bicycle to area children, Santa Rosa Neighborhood Center, Tucson, Ariz., December 22, 2021.
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