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The Forward

F.K. Day

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

Lancearmstrong, Theforward, Sports, Arts, Wedu, Forward

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

FK Day is a co-founder of the SRAM Corporation, a bicycle component manufacturer based in Chicago. After a trip to Sri Lanka following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami FK and his wife Leah were inspired to help via a bicycle distribution system. They founded World Bicycle Relief. WBR is a comprehensive bicycle distribution program to aid poverty relief in developing countries around the world. To date WBR has donated over 300,000 bicycles. FK was in Aspen with Lance to discuss their old history together at SRAM, World Bicycle Relief and how people can help.

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0:00.0

Oh say can you see

0:06.4

I'm just kidding happy birthday America happy belated birthday America

0:18.0

America coming to you from Aspen, Colorado. Happy fourth. Actually you're listening to this on the fifth, but you know what I mean.

0:21.6

Been a fun week. Started the stages

0:26.7

podcast. A daily recap show of this year's Tour to France, myself, and my good friend J.B. Hager in the

0:35.6

Air Stream Studio right here in the hood. It's been fun to watch the race.

0:41.2

Watch the race, you know get up early, watch everything, watch

0:44.8

try to predict what's happening, seeing if it comes true or not, and just

0:49.2

watching the dynamic. It's been years since I've paid this much attention to the

0:52.3

tour and I'm loving it and if you're listening to it

0:56.3

Thank you for tuning in much appreciate it if you're trying to figure out where to find it

1:00.9

Whether you want to find it on iTunes or Google Play or SoundCloud,

1:05.8

go to Stages Podcast.com. Stages Podcast.com, that's where all the information is so you can know where to go.

1:15.0

For the fourth, I had, I was asked by a local charity here called the Buddy Program.

1:22.0

They partner with a run every 4th of July every morning

1:24.3

called the Boogies Five Mileer.

1:26.6

And they asked me to be the lead bike.

1:28.6

So I was the lead vehicle for the run, which was super cool.

1:31.8

I actually ran the race last year and got fourth or fifth I think

1:35.6

But it's kind of a traditional not kind of it's a traditional fun kickoff to the 4th of July here in our small little town before

1:47.3

people head on over to downtown for the parade which is sort of this classic Americana parade, you know, hot rods, Har my both my kids are in the parade max rides its dirt bike with the dirt bike club

1:59.2

Olivia sits on the art museum float if you're ever in the area or in these parts come on over on the

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