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>> Find a bicycle to fit your needs no matter what
your challenges might be.
Then head off on some of Iowa's more than twelve
hundred miles of trails.
>> On the trails, I see pedestrians,
rollerbladers, and a variety of bicycles.
And if you're concerned that a physical condition may
stand in the way of bicycling some of Iowa's
great trail systems, there are places that can help.
>> I have, I have very limited movement in my legs,
very, very limited.
I can barely, I can barely move my legs as it is.
I'm here to test out a new hand cycle for myself.
I ride a hand cycle, try to ride it every weekend,
but I need something with a little more,
a little more gears, a little more cranking,
so I can do hills easier.
>> I ride about ten miles per ride now.
And we try to do that every weekend,
but this summer we'll do it a lot more.
>> I would be able to get into something like this
alone and take off.
Have a cell phone, you can hit the trail,
and I put like 3,000 miles on last year.
And took mostly trails.
>> Allen, Suzanne, and Nick are seasoned cyclists.
Thanks to the availability of many,
many varieties of bicycles, tricycles,
and tandems that can be customized to fit their
physical abilities.
On this day, they're at an Expo of Specialty Bikes held
at All Ability Cycles in Jefferson.
The shop is owned by John Bruno and his wife.
>> Doing the adaptive type of work,
we're serving all types of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
and Lou Gehrig's Disease and autism.
It's a broad spectrum of special needs that people
have, and sometimes it's just somebody my size who
doesn't have good balance, and they want exercise,
and so they're looking for something that's comfortable
and stable, and allows them to get out and enjoy and
exercise and be healthier.
>> John says the shop's work can include removing all the
controls, like the shifting and brakes,
to one handlebar, if the cyclist has one hand,
or an arm weak or paralyzed.
There are also many options for anchoring feet
to the pedals.
There's even one bike that will grow with the child.
>> And twist this and pull it out,
and that'll extend the bike as the kid gets bigger.
>> No, I had polio when I was two,
so I'd never ridden a bike.
So, I thought it would be fun if I could get my own
bike and start getting out.
>> We try to work very closely with someone's
medical professional, so if there are physical
therapists involved, make sure that they see the
equipment, that they're in agreement of what we're
trying to do is in the best interest of the cyclist.
>> On the medical side, John tries to educate health care
workers about the various bikes available.
>> And truly, to get people out on cycles, bicycles,
tricycles, there's got to be that element of fun to
motivate them and to get them to go back.
>> We followed him to one presentation where the staff
of Child Serve in Johnston were able to test out the
cycles themselves.
>> It was a very smooth ride.
Um, I liked the fact that I can,
could power it with my hands or my feet.
>> When we see the children on the bikes,
there's always a smile.
They enjoy the bikes, all the different adaptive
equipment they have with the hands, the feet.
That's really going to help them and assist them with
their therapies.
>> Whether it's for therapy or just plain fun,
there's also an element of freedom,
at least for the few pedallers we talked to
in Jefferson.
>> That I don't need anybody else to help me,
I can do it all on my own and just get up and go when
I want to.
>> The beauty of, the beauty of being outside.
I, sometimes I'll be riding along,
I'll be riding along the trail and I'll just look up.
I'm like, gosh dang - >> It's just being free like a
bird because you're just free and you get to do
whatever you want to be, and it's a little bit of
exercise, but it's a lot of fun.
>> She tries to be just like every other kid and we've
got to do, sometimes we have to do things a little
special ways, but you know, we do what we can to get her
to do everything everybody else can.
>> I say to people sometimes that I am not necessarily
prosperous in the money that comes in the door,