The Strider Bike giveaway is in its second year of giving away free bicycles like the one Beckham Kilburn took home last year. Kilburn was two years old last December when he won a free Strider Bike.
“He loved it,” Beckham's mother Megan Kilburn told KRQE. “He was riding it all over the house, outside, and he did want to take it to bed, and at that time, he was still in a crib. I really got to see how much it pushed him to go outside, be active.”
The Strider Bike is made for young children to learn balance and hand-eye coordination. The giveaway is sponsored by the Bike Coop near Central and Yale in Albuquerque. Last year, Bike Coop partnered with the non-profit More Butts on Bikes to give a free Strider Bike away to a young child every day in December.
“We started in 2020 after a customer of ours had been laid off from his job from the pandemic, and he was trying to get his kid a bike,” Amanda Batty, the owner of the Bike Coop said. “I was like, ‘how about you don’t worry about paying for it,’ and it started there.”
Batty said the response from parents was strong three years ago during the pandemic. “It’s only gotten bigger and better since,” Batty said. “We’re going to do it as long as we can just because it’s the excitement level is absolutely there I think for us, like when we draw names.”
People with children between the ages of 18 months and 4 years old can enter the giveaway on the Bike Coop’s website.
