Wheels 4 Life News

Sho-Air Cyclery raising money for Wheels 4 Life

Sho-Air Cyclery, the newly opened GT stockist, bicycle shop at 8530 E. Chapman, Orange, California chose to support Wheels 4 Life through a race event on Saturday 6th September. Adding to the support were members of our “Team Wheels 4 L”, that race so that...

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7-year old Adam Pettifer fundraiser

7-year old Adam Pettifer fundraiser

My 7 year old son, Adam and I rode out out for a weekend of riding in the Peak District, UK. Aside from the challenge and adventure, he took the opportunity to raise money for wheels4life after receiving a new bike for his birthday. He carried all of his...

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Cape Epic ’14 Team Rothorn-Brien

Cape Epic ’14 Team Rothorn-Brien

A big thank you goes to Christoph Fuchs and Urs Schild from Switzerland. They raced this year in the 7 day Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race in South Africa on behalf of Wheels 4 Life as “Team Rothorn-Brienz”. They completed the 730km and 15350 vertical...

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Climb 24 fundraiser

David Roberts is putting a on special event/ fundraiser on April 13th in Southern California. He will try to break the Guinness World Record by riding the most vertical feet on a bike within a 24hour period. Their goal is to raise enough money to buy at...

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Tortour Fundraiser by Kjell Andersen and Stefan Huber

Tortour Fundraiser in Switzerland by Kjell Andersen and Stefan Huber The Tortour Race (www.tortour.com) is a non-stop bicycle road race around Switzerland. Participants have to ride a course of 1050km/650miles and 15000m/49000ft. vertical. The course has...

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Tretlager fundraiser #2

Tretlager fundraiser #2

Winterthur, Switzerland April ‘09 Our partners and supporters from the Tretlager Bike Shop in Winterthur Switzerland have organized another fundraiser for Wheels 4 Life. They organized a riding clinic at their shop by Thomas Lenherr as coach. Thanks to the...

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Rock n Road Bike Shop used bike fundraiser

Orange County, California Rock n Road Bike Shops and Team Sho-Air/VeloSport are hosting a bicycle donation day for the Hans Rey Wheels4Life Charity.  The donation day will take place on Saturday April 11th.  If you wish to donate a bicycle to the...

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Michael & Matt fundraiser

Michael & Matt fundraiser

Matt and Micheal, two 12 year old boys from the Los Angeles area, have organized a used bike collection for Wheels 4 Life. ( we usually don’t deal with used bikes, but in this case we will bring them straight to Mexico and make sure they will find owners...

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Tanzania Trip #3 Feb.’09

Tanzania Trip #3 Feb.’09

I just returned from Africa, we concluded the filming for our Wheels 4 Villages Film project. We have now been there three times over the past year to document the impact bikes have on this area around Ugweno in the Northern Pare Mountains. The film will...

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Nun in India receives bike from Ride Earth

Nun in India receives bike from Ride Earth

Andrew Welch is one of our Wheels 4 Life ambassadors who rides his bike around the world on his Ride Earth journey, we asked him to distribute bikes on our behalf to people along his journey who are in need of a bike. Please read is short report about the...

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total bikes delivered

TOTAL BIKES DELIVERED:

18,252

(As of Nov 9 2023)

Videos

Mexico Project 2022
Kilimanjaro: Mountain of Greatness

Hans Rey, Danny MacAskill and Gerhard Czerner head out on the mountain bike journey of a lifetime. Facing intense altitude challenges and health risks, this team sets out to be the first to conquer the two highest mountains in Africa back to back on a bike, Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro

Other Ways You Can Help

Buy The Wheels 4 Life DVD

Wheels 4 Life - The Film - A Story About Giving is now available for $10 (plus S & H). The documentary film, narrated by John McEnroe, chronicles our Wheels4Villages projects in Tanzania, over the period of 14 month.
Watch the TrailerBuy the DVD 

Featured Project

EFTC Foundation

Education for the Children (EFTC) is an international NGO based in Guatemala. Wheels4Life has worked with EFTC on several projects, including the delivery of over 100 bikes.
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