Yes, it’s the name of a fundraising day in the community but it rings true as a statement on its own.

Just ask the nearly 120 first graders that are set to receive a new bike on Monday.

It’s the culmination of a joint fundraising effort between Eric Webber and the Warren County Chamber of Business & Industry in partnership with the Can’d Aid Foundation.

Webber isn’t new to the fundraising needed to pull off this kind of initiative. He said it started with raising the funding for 30 bikes in Franklin a couple years ago and then 65 last year donated to the Boys & Girls Club in Erie.

Eric Webber has partnered with the WCCBI and the Can’d Aid Foundation on a fundraising effort that will bring 120 bikes to first graders in Warren County. “This is my opportunity to show a kid at that age what it took me 30-plus years to find,” he said.

Webber, an avid-cyclist who recently moved to the county, was asked to do it again.

He was put in contact with Jim Decker, the WCCBI’s president/CEO.

$30,000 later, the bikes are set to be built at Kinzua Beach on Saturday before the give away on Monday at Warren Area High School.

The funding was raised locally. Decker spearheaded a sponsorship opportunity with the local business community. Funds are then turned over to Can’d Aid, who will purchase the bikes and administer the giveaway, which will include demonstrations by pro mountain-biker Jeff Lenosky.

“Jim was all over it,” Webber said. “He was like a pitbull.”

The initial plan was for 65 bikes. Webber had handled that before.

“I was happy with that,” he said. “Jim says ‘well, why don’t we try to get more bikes?’ We gotta raise more money with that. He’s like ‘I don’t see a problem with that.'”

Contact was made with the WCSD and Tidioute Community Charter School to identify students that had need.

“Next thing I know, the money is coming in,” Webber said. “The stress of raising $30,000 wasn’t so big anymore. Jim was like the spearhead for the fundraiser. He just really ran with it. I’m really appreciative of him.”

It’s probably not a surprise that bikes have turned into an important part of Webber’s life.

He said he got into the sport about 13 years ago.

“I wasn’t really doing much,” he said, when a friend told Webber he was starting to ride. “I just kind of needed something in my life that was different other than mowing the grass and going to work every day.”

He jumped in kinda blindly — he immediately wanted to tackle a 100-mile ‘century’ ride before he knew what a century was. “My immediate trough was ‘you are out of your mind.’ The next thought? I want to do it.” His wife told him if anyone could ride 100 miles he could so he bought a cheap road bike and got started.

She saved up for a nicer road bike to encourage his efforts.

He got plugged into a riding community, shifted to the trails after some close run-ins on the road and the rest is history.

The bikes that are part of this giveaway arrived on Wednesday and a ‘build day’ party is set for Saturday morning at Kinzua Beach starting at 9:30 a.m.

That’s open to anyone willing to help build bikes.

Webber said one guy — that he has never met — is coming from Buffalo after having learned what it’s all about on social media.

“It’s just a really cool thing that people can see that staff… and want to come and help,” Webber said.

It’s not going to be all work and no play, though. The build is happening at Kinzua Beach so that a group ride on the Trails at Jakes Rocks can happen after.

That will then set the stage for the giveaway on Monday.

The sheer number of bikes set to be provided gives some sense into the need that’s out there.

“People are so stuck in their own lives,” Webber said, “they don’t look around to see what’s going on around them. We’re all guilty of it to a certain extent. I never realized” the extent of the need.

Not only will the bikes get these kids outside, he also sees it as a chance to light a cycling spark.

“Nothing frustrates me more than to see a kid sitting on the couch neck deep in a tablet” when the weather is nice, he said, “or just sitting on the couch doing nothing.

“This is my opportunity to show a kid at that age what it took me 30-plus years to find.”