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Archive for Adaptive cycling

BORP Youth Rider Passes It Forward!

By Greg Milano on April 10, 2019 No Comments

Sam Wilson-Kutchko first came to BORP’s Cyclng Center when she was was 7 years old.  She couldn’t balance on a two wheel bike at the time but soon got riding on one of BORP’s adaptive trikes. No kid wants to only ride when BORP is open so her family bought a trike. But it turned out that the exercise and coordination she developed triking helped her learn to ride a two wheeler! So Sam, now 12, donated her trike to BORP so more kids like her can get on wheels! Thank you Sam! We love to see our riders getting independent on their own wheels and are so grateful for your donation to BORP!

Sam donates her Adaptive Youth Trike.
Sam on her mountain bike
Categories : Uncategorized
Tags : Adaptive cycling

Oakland’s Cole School gets moving at BORP!

By Betsy Dorsett on April 23, 2018 No Comments

Thanks to the efforts of their teacher Laurin Kennedy a group of students from Oakland’s Cole School came on their first field trip to BORP in March. All of the students from Cole are nonverbal and wheelchair users and none of them had ever cycled before. Everyone got on a bike for at least one lap around Aquatic Park, and everyone had a great time. We asked Laurin what she thought of their first BORP experience:

Group photo of the kids from Oakland’s Cole School at the BORP Cycling center

Group photo of the kids from Oakland’s Cole School at the BORP Cycling center

BORP had a wonderful and meaningful impact on the lives of each of my students. Adaptive cycling opened a whole new world to them that they’d never had the opportunity to explore before.  Each of my students has moderate/severe physical and intellectual disabilities, so they each require specialized equipment to access physical activity. BORP provided that equipment for us, helped us select the most appropriate adaptive cycle for each student, and then organized and facilitated a ride. My students had a blast!

If I had to pick one student who enjoyed his time most, I would choose Darius.  Darius suffers from a neurodegenerative illness that has steadily robbed him of his physical and cognitive abilities over time. In the past, he was a typically developing child who had control over his mind and body.  As an adult, Darius is often frustrated because he cannot do the things he used to do as a young boy. When he was on the adaptive cycle, he seemed to be more happy and free that I’ve ever seen him. The cycle allowed him to move his legs in ways that he is unable to when he is confined to his wheelchair. He seemed to really enjoy the wind in his hair, moving his legs, and spending time with his mother, classmates, and teachers in a fun environment.

The best part of BORP’s cycling program is how invested the staff are to help our students.  BORP transported our classroom to and from school using the Borp bus, took the time and energy to help us pick out the most appropriate equipment, helped lift/transfer our adult students using their in-house lift, and then supported us on an adaptive cycling ride.  For 10 adult students, this is not an easy task. Everyone at Borp was so supportive and had a great attitude throughout our whole experience. That’s what really made our whole trip even more meaningful.

Categories : Adaptive Cycling, BORP Cycling, BORP General Interest
Tags : Adaptive cycling, borp, Cycling, Disability

A Perfect Partnership – BORP Cycling and The Centre for Neuro Skills

By Greg Milano on April 19, 2018 No Comments

Over the last three years, BORP Cycling and the Centre for Neuro Skills in Emeryville (CNS) have developed a great partnership serving both our missions. CNS is a residential rehabilitation program for people with traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and strokes.  Every Tuesday, a group of CNS clients and their therapists visit the BORP Cycling Center for a group ride.  Most riders come for several months while they are enrolled in CNS programs and some continue to come independently afterward.

CNS  Therapist Albert Santa Cruz has this to say about our programs:

“BORP provides additional recreation therapy for our patients and provides a physical activity in community-based areas. There are plenty of articles and studies showing the benefits of outdoor activities including motivation to exercise, enhancing a positive attitude and emotion, and reducing mental fatigue. BORP allows a break for patients who undergo intense therapy in a clinical setting for hours a day while still getting a different type of rehabilitation. Bicycling outdoors allows patients to feel a sense of community involvement through social reintegration and inducing a mindset of belonging and being able to see their progress in a practical setting. Another aspect of bicycling outdoors is the exposure to sensory experiences by seeing the bright grassy areas, the sunny skies, and vast bay area water. Participation has given our patients a sense of a “reset” that allows them to continue their formal therapies refreshed.

The staff and volunteers have been phenomenal and accommodate for our sometimes large groups. They assist with all fitting for all of our patients and make sure our patients are safe with appropriate equipment. They adapt their equipment for our varying impairments and body types. We appreciate the open dialogue that is available at BORP and hope to keep the BORP and CNS relationship for a very long time.”

CNS Rider Spotlight:

CNS “graduate” Ray Ydoyaga on a recumbent trike near the BORP Cycling Center

Ray Ydoyaga

We interviewed CNS “graduate” Ray Ydoyaga about his personal experiences at BORP.  Ray started out riding recumbent cycles with the CNS group, has become a regular independent rider, and just this month successfully got back on a two-wheel cycle.

BORP: What do you enjoy about BORP?

Ray Ydoyaga: It’s great to be able to have a regular and fun outdoor athletic workout after a major physical injury.  This wouldn’t be possible for me without BORP’s special adaptive bikes.  BORP is also ideally located at the juncture of multiple bike trails ranging from the very easy loop around Aquatic Park Lake, to hidden paths around Berkeley marina, and to challenging and serious rides up to either the Bay Bridge bike path or, going the other direction, Richmond, and all offering stupendous views.   Pre-accident, I was a daily cyclist, so now post-accident, being able to do something physical again that i love has given me a lot of hope and improved my mental well-being.

BORP: Have you noticed a specific impact on your physical rehabilitation?

Ray: The repetitive cycling motions have definitely increased my strength, endurance, balance  and overall mobility.  My right side is still substantially weaker than left, but the regular cycling has given the right side a big boost.

BORP: What brought you to BORP?

Ray: In July 2016, I had a high-speed bicycle wipeout that caused a concussion and a spinal cord injury at neck level (C3).  That level of injury almost always means being (required to use a wheelchair), but through luck, years-long rehab work and the care AND INGENUITY of a great physical therapist, SEAN REYNOLDS OF CNS, I am able to walk — with a pronounced limp and sometimes looks a bit like a drunken sailor, but still, it’s a self-propelled walk nonetheless.  I have improved to the point where I will be taking my first solo ride on a regular two-wheeled bike very soon, and perhaps graduating from BORP’s fast three-wheeled trikes.

Categories : Adaptive Cycling, BORP Fitness, BORP General Interest
Tags : Adaptive cycling, Adaptive Sports, borp, Cycling

How to Raise Over $700 for Your Revolution Ride in a Day

By Betsy Dorsett on August 23, 2017 No Comments

You can win this hate: picture of black and blue baseball cap with BORP logo embroidered on frontWe’ve been happily giving away these nifty BORP hats every Tuesday to the Revolution rider who raises the most money that week, but recently something unexpected happened.

Annie Kaferle registered for the Revolution on Monday afternoon. And by the time we were calculating the winner of the week’s hat giveaway, she was squarely in the lead. When the contest officially ended at noon on Tuesday, Annie had raised over $700. In less than 24 hours.

 

Here’s Annie’s secret to raising over $700 in under 24 hours

“I sent an e-mail to my friends and family with the link in it – riffing on what BORP provided with a little personal blurb about why I chose to support BORP and then I also posted a similar link on Facebook for people to donate directly. I have to say, I think the more you facilitate donating (i.e. adding a hyperlink) the easier it is for people to donate – and quickly! I’m pretty lucky to have such generous friends and family that are willing to donate to a cause that I am interested in!”

Image of hand cyclist and standard cyclist riding in the Rev. Text over image reads "Why I Ride the REV ... because 84% of all BORP participants report an increased ability to lead an active lifestyle."

Click here to download images like this one to share on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Give it a try. (You, too, could win a hat and help support BORP at the same time!)

If you haven’t registered for the 15th Annual BORP Revolution Ride & Festival yet or haven’t started fundraising, don’t worry. There’s still time to meet and exceed the $400 minimum fundraising requirement.

Try personalizing the templates we provide, like Annie did, with your own reasons for supporting BORP and sending it to your friends, family, and coworkers. Be sure to include the link to your personal or team page.

You can also post something similar, including the link to your fundraising page and your reasons for getting involved with BORP and riding in the Revolution, to your Facebook page.

Give it a try! You may be surprised by how much your friends and family want to support you and care about the causes that you’re committed to! Plus, we’re giving a BORP hat to this week’s top TWO fundraisers, and you could win! (All donations made between Tuesday, August 22 and Tuesday, August 29 at noon will count toward the contest. Winners will be notified on Tuesday, August 29.)

More Fundraising Resources:

  • 2017 Revolution Fundraising Toolkit
  • BORP’s 2016 Annual Report
  • Sharable Revolution Images for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

 

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Categories : Adaptive Cycling, adult-wheelchair-basketball, BORP Adult Sports, BORP Cycling, BORP Fitness, BORP General Interest, BORP Youth Sports, power-soccer, revolution
Tags : Adaptive cycling, Adaptive Sports, borp, BORP basketball, BORP Jr. Road Warriors, BORP Power Soccer, BORP Revolution, Cycling, Disability, goalball, handcycling, Jr. Road Warriors, Power Soccer, Rev, Revolution, wheelchair basketball

BORP Power Soccer (VIDEO)

By Betsy Dorsett on November 3, 2016 No Comments

“The greatest thing about power soccer is that you’re able to play a game, have fun, and become an athlete, just like anybody else.” -Chris Finn, BORP Power Soccer Coach

Andreas Floistrup, a journalism student at San Francisco State University, recently joined Coach Finn and BORP’s power soccer players for a practice. Check it out:

Categories : BORP Adult Sports, BORP General Interest, BORP Youth Sports, power-soccer
Tags : Adaptive cycling, Adaptive Sports, borp, BORP Power Soccer, Disability, Power Soccer

Going Fast: Getting to know Katherine Sherwood

By Betsy Dorsett on October 11, 2016 No Comments

In this new blog series, we talk with Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program (BORP) participants and athletes about their lives, interests and experience with BORP.

Katherine Sherwood on the ICE bike in Berkeley

Katherine Sherwood riding the ICE bike, a blue recumbent bike, on the pedestrian bridge above 580 in Berkeley with the BORP cycling center visible behind her.

On most Thursday and Saturday afternoons, Katherine Sherwood can be found cycling along the Berkeley waterfront with her partner. “He’s always been an avid cyclist. He found out about BORP about three years ago and told me about it.” On their first visit to BORP’s cycling center, Greg Milano set them up with a side-by-side tandem. Katherine loved it right away. “I really liked to go fast.”

In 1997 Katherine was a teacher and promising painter when she lost the use of the right side of her body as the result a major cerebral hemorrhage. But, she says, she never lost sight of the fact that she wanted to get back to teaching and making art. Katherine’s love of going fast seemingly also applied to learning to paint with her left hand. And soon her career began to reach new heights. Just three years after her stroke, Katherine’s artwork was featured in the prestigious Whitney Museum’s Biennial Exhibition in New York.

Much like her quick return to art, it didn’t take Katherine long to graduate from the side-by-side to an inline tandem bike. Riding at BORP regularly, Katherine was getting stronger, more independent… and faster than ever. Then one day she got to the cycling center to find that the tandem bikes were being used. “Greg just looked at me said, ‘I think you’re ready to go solo.’ And I’m so glad he did!”

Recently retired from long and illustrious career of teaching painting and disability studies at UC Berkeley, Katherine spends her time focusing on her involvement with disability advocacy at UC Berkeley, working with a few graduate students, and cycling.

Katherine says that cycling at BORP has made her life better, allowing her get aerobic exercise and to spend time with her partner doing something that they both love. “Everyone at the cycling center is exceedingly kind and helpful. They’ve become my BORP family.”

“They’ve become my BORP family.”

Today Katherine’s bike of choice is the ICE Bike. “They call it the sports car of bikes,” she says with a smile. Katherine still likes to go fast.


Katherine Sherwood: A Retrospective Exhibition

Katherine Sherwood, “Olympia – Venuses of the Yelling Clinic”, Acrylic and collaged digital print on linen found art historical posters, 2014.

Katherine Sherwood, “Olympia – Venuses of the Yelling Clinic”, Acrylic and collaged digital print on linen found art historical posters, 2014. Image used with permission from Katherine Sherwood.

Katherine Sherwood’s artwork will be on exhibit at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery (116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley Campus) from October 19 through November 4, along with a special exhibition of several of her former students. Katherine’s most recent series, Venuses of the Yelling Clinic, feature iconic, proud disabled female figures rendered on the reverse of antique prints of art historically significant paintings. Click here to learn more

 

Categories : Adaptive Cycling, BORP Cycling, BORP General Interest, Uncategorized
Tags : Adaptive cycling, Art, Berkeley, borp, Cycling, Disability, Katheirne Sherwood

BORP Adaptive Cycling Center re-opens March 7

By Josh Thelin on February 4, 2015 1 Comments

At long last, Winter is over for the BORP Adaptive Cycling Center!  Open hours resume on Saturday, March 7.  For more information, contact Greg Milano at the bikehouse: 510-848-2930 or email cycling @borp.org.

 

 

Categories : Adaptive Cycling, BORP Adult Sports, BORP Cycling, BORP General Interest
Tags : Adaptive cycling, Adaptive Sports, borp

2014 Rev Photos are up!

By Josh Thelin on October 28, 2014 No Comments

Scot Goodman’s awesome 2014 Rev photos are up! Scot volunteers his time and talent to provide these amazing, professional photographs of the Rev and participants who make it happen. Thank you, Scot!

A grid of images from the 2014 BORP Revolution Ride

Click here to see all of Scot’s 2014 Rev photos.

Categories : BORP Cycling, BORP General Interest, revolution
Tags : Adaptive cycling, borp, Rev, Revolution

June 9th Adaptive Cycling Event in San Francisco

By Josh Thelin on June 1, 2013 1 Comments

On Sunday, June 9, BORP along with the San Francisco MTA, Mayor’s Office of Disability, Department of Aging and Adult Services, and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will host an Adaptive Cycling event where youth and adults with physical disabilities will be able to test ride adaptive bicycles at the Sunday Streets event in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

BORP has the country’s largest and most diverse collection of adaptive bicycles for use by people with physical disabilities and will offer orientation and training to new riders at the Sunday Streets event.  Handcycles, tandems, recumbent tricycles, and therapeutic trikes will be available for adults and youth to test ride.

The June 9th Adaptive Cycling Event will open up bicycling to even more people in San Francisco during the car-free Sunday Streets event. Drop by Indiana and 19th Street between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to take a test ride!

For more information visit: http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/adaptive-cycling-at-sunday-streets/

Cyclists at the starting line of the Revolution Ride

Categories : Adaptive Cycling, BORP Cycling, BORP General Interest
Tags : Adaptive cycling, handcycling

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