Kenji Sugahara

Big kudos to Brian Johnson who stepped up and volunteered at the Bike
Safety Fair after I sent the note out to the list!!! Thanks Brian!

Here's his post on his blog- http://liveorridebikes.blogspot.com/2009/04/criminally-poor-kids-bikes.html

Kenji Sugahara
Executive Director
Oregon Bicycle Racing Association
503-302-4935

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brian Johnson
> Date: April 27, 2009 10:21:25 PM PDT
> To: Kenji Sugahara
> Subject: Chehalem Elementary Bike Safety Fair
>
> Hi Kenji,
>
> You had originally posted the message from Michelle at Chehalem
> Elementary seeking volunteers. (see end of this message) I responded
> to Michelle's request for help and took my stand and some tools out
> to the school on the 25th.
>
> I was known as "the OBRA guy". :) I didn't try to pass myself off as
> some official delegate or something, but I did let folks know that I
> was just an OBRA member and that I was there to help fix up kids'
> bikes.
>
> It was a good event. The event directed kids first through a short
> safety video, then a fitting for free helmets, and finally the
> obstacle course under the watchful eyes of the Beaverton bike police.
>
> I didn't get to see any other part of the fair because me and the
> four other wrenches (two mechanics from Hillsboro REI and two other
> "regular" guys) stayed busy from the beginning until the very end. I
> overheard that there were about 400 kids that went through the fair.
> I'm not sure how many bikes we serviced, but we worked on a lot!
>
> The kids I saw were obviously having fun on their bikes and I saw
> lots of them "racing" through the obstacle course.
>
> It was a good time fixing up the bikes so the kids could keep riding
> (safely).
>
> Cheers,
> Brian Johnson
>
>