Outride can help show you the way to bring a full bike program to your middle school or earn matching grant funds to build trails, support youth cycling education, and youth rider development.
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Wy’east Middle School in Odell, Oregon in Hood River County is planning to fund the construction of a pump track for its new mountain biking class inspired by the success of a local track built a year ago. The proposed track would run around the perimeter of the school yard. Bikes and Bytes, the mountain biking course, was launched in the spring with help from Outride
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There is no one left behind on the ride to full participation at Oklahoma School for the Deaf in Sulphur, Oklahoma. The school was one of the 41 schools awarded a Riding for Focus grant this past spring.
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2018-2019 WAS A BIG YEAR FOR US. We trained 50 new teachers. We ran programs in 30 states across the United States. We implemented a new phase of our curriculum involving STEM concepts and bike riding.
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Our Season’s Greetings To You.
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Our 2020 Riding for Focus Grant Applications are now open! Bring a cycling program to your local middle school. Let us show you the way.
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Three-time world champion Peter Sagan hosted the three-day Sagan Roadie-Oh! in San Diego for an extended weekend in early November to ride, have fun and raise funds for both Outride and the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Ďakujem Peter—that’s “Thank You” in Slovak, is a toast to his history and heritage!
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‘Tis the season of giving back! Ned Overend, a one-of-a-kind mountain bike legend just signed on to serve as one of Outride’s Athlete Ambassadors this fall. Ned joins over two dozen racers now on-board dedicating time and talent to mentor our Riding for Focus students.
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Hoback Sports has been working with Outride to introduce cycling education in their local schools with a goal of improving social, emotional, and cognitive health. Hoback delivered a dozen donated bikes to the Red Top Meadows School last year to be used for their program and just delivered 30 more bikes to Jackson Hole Middle School this fall.
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Dedham School is a small PK-8 school in rural Maine where the staff strives to find ways to reach every student who walks through the door. Tim Pearson works as a physical education and health teacher at the school and helped secure the Riding for Focus grant from Outride this fall. The school was the only one in Maine to receive the grant this year. Students are more than just along for the ride of a new bike program brought to their town.
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President and Founder Mike Sinyard welcomed the champions and guests and delivered the news first hand of Outride—the new name and rebrand of the Specialized Foundation and the new Outride Fund—a dollar for dollar match fund to empower local communities to launch a variety of youth cycling programs.
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There were 67 Riding for Focus School Champions greeted with gusto at Specialized Bicycle corporate headquarters this past month to attend the official training for Riding for Focus program that kicks off this fall at each of their schools..
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What happens when a local non-profit works non-stop with their local community to get more kids on bikes, raises funds for the purchase and has the support of the local retailer to build and maintain them? Score!—Riding for Focus is launched at Naperville North.
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There’s a lot of new kids on the block—of course riding bikes! The Specialized Foundation announced 41 new middle school grant recipients for the 2019-2020 Riding for Focus school program. With the addition of these new schools, The Specialized Foundation will now support more than 33,000 new students next year, across 130 schools, in 45 states and Canada.
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Last summer, the first shipment of Riding for Focus Bikes landed at Lookout Valley Middle School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. School Champion Dan Basler gave a major shout-out to Eric Wagner, Managing Partner and the entire team at Cycle Sport Concepts Chattanooga for the bike builds.
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From the source! Spoken words directly to you from a few of our Riding for Focus Students and Teachers of Everitt Middle School in Wheat Ridge, CO who wrote letters to The Specialized Foundation about their experience with the Riding for Focus Program.
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Do you remember your first-ever bike ride? Did someone help you balance on two wheels or did you fly solo and learn on your own? Our new Athlete Ambassadors are each special in their own unique way and give beyond 100% to make their dreams come true.
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Yes! Giving some Love to our Riding for Focus Schools and Champion Retailers this Valentine’s Day!
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High Fives to our friends at BikeRadar for the great story about The Specialized Foundation and how it all got started by the vision of Specialized President and Founder Mike Sinyard. Get inspired to learn how the current Under 23 XCO World Champion Alan Hatherly will be racing alongside the former champion Sam Gaze for the 2019 Absa Cape Epic.
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What happens when XTERRA pro riders visit Maui Prep Academy, a local Riding for Focus middle school after racing the XTERRA World Champions in Kapalua, Hawaii? The athletes share abundant tips on riding, bike skills and how they use cycling to stay focused when training and racing. Sound familiar? Race—Ride—Focus!
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