'Jack the Bike Man' making a difference in the community

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Jack Hairston, known as Jack The Bike Man, has been helping area kids fix their bicycles for many years.

"I fixed the first bike for a kid in 1998 and the next day a couple of his friends knocked on the door and I fixed their bikes."

He also takes bikes that kids no longer want, refurbishes them, then gives them to a needy child. "In the last twelve months, we have probably given away more than two thousand bikes.

Jack The Bike Man says about 50 percent of the bikes that are donated to him have rust on them. but he has a plan in mind to make sure when people donate the bicycles they are in beautiful condition.

"At Christmas time and at birthdays and sometimes at the end of the school year kids get new bicycles. And the old bike gets put out into the yard behind the house. It gets rained on and the sprinklers get it. When they think, oh we've got to get those to Jack the Bike Man they are starting to get rust on them. And some of them end up sitting outside for close to a year."

Jack is hoping people will donate their used bicycles now, instead of waiting. "Jack the Bike Man has made an incredible difference in hundreds of children."
 
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