What a great day to enjoy the hot air balloons rising over the skies of Walla Walla to have another wonderful turnout for bicycle safety at Berney School. This is the fourth year that this wonderful event has happened due to a passion for bicycle safety from Mary Ann Duffy of Walla Walla. She was able once again to get volunteers to come together to teach the 100 or so children to ride safer.
Some of the main volunteers would be the Mary Ann Duffy, Dr. Sean Duffy, and the Whitman cycling Team. With my help and Regie from the Bicycle barn we were able to get all the bicycles checked over for loose parts and pieces. We did find that many bicycles had the handle bar stem raised to far over the max height mark as well as seats. We also found loose wheel axle nuts, quick releases, and handle bars. A few bicycles were also found to have non functioning brakes.
After all was said and done we had fixed many bicycles that in time would have got the riders injured.
I want to personally thank Mary Ann for inviting me to help again with this wonderful event. I will look forward to doing it again next year. It is always nice to take part of the day away from my Real estate to help out teaching kids to be safer.
