Inner City Cycling Connection (IC3) Goals and Objectives:
1) Promote the healthy and natural sport of cycling in the inner city starting with schools (children age 10 and up).
2) Be a conduit for inner city youths to focus on education, self discipline, and spiritual awareness.
3) Develop inner city schools bicycle racing teams by 2020.
4) Enlist help from public, business, and community organizations (police/fire/school district, etc).
5) Reintroduce safe, healthy, bicycling to the community.
6) Incorporate cycling in inner city schools through intra-mural participation and after school programs.
7) Increase the number of children participating in cycling athletic programs.
By accomplishing these goals and objectives, Inner City Cycling Connection (IC3) offers a healthy alternative sport activity that encourages physical fitness and safety. In addition, it teaches the youths of today integrity, moral commitment, and a sense of value to the overall community.
PLEASE NOTE: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC SLOWED DOWN MANY OF THE INITIATIVES OF IC3. WE ARE FINALLY NOW GETTING EVERYTHING BACK ON TRACK.
ABOUT US
Inner City Cycling Connection (IC3) Organization grew out of a request by the community leaders organizing the Martin Luther King, Jr. parade and celebration. Inner City Cycling Connection has been active in Los Angeles for over 10 years thanks to Don Harris. Don loved the sport so much that he joined a cycling club and competed in many races.
He wanted to share his love of cycling with others so he formed the Inner City Cycling Connection, a non-profit organization, which focuses on developing cycling in the inner city schools and educating our youths in the inner city on maintaining healthy lifestyles.
Don, a devoted Christian and a Vietnam combat veteran, has been a member of Wilshire United Methodist Church since 1979. He is presently the president of the Wilshire United Methodist Men’s Fellowship congregation. The social agenda for this group includes developing programs that address aggression and domestic violence, teen pregnancy, juvenile mentorship, STD’s, HIV/AIDS, other serious health and wellness issues, physical fitness, high unemployment, and life stress related issues.
Don Harris has been very interested in the life and works of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. From this passion, in 2001, Don formed the Martin Luther King, Jr. Classic Bike Races which was held on Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday before the parade in Los Angeles, California. Highlights from the classic are captured by local TV stations in L.A. Each year, the classic was presented as the centerpiece to a Cycling Bike Festival held in the South Los Angeles community of Leimert Park. The all day affair includes various class category competitions - males, females, and pros; a street festival with emphasis on the bicycle industry and its advocates; and a community recreational cycling challenge. Visit the upcoming events portion of this website for the exact time and date of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Classic Bike Races and Cycling Bike Festival. Don is in the process of moving the race to Culver City, California.
Don has many goals. He has long been a strong advocate of promoting cycling in our inner city communities and schools. He plans on fulfilling this objective by providing our inner city schools with financial grants and equipment to promote cycling.
Secondly, with help from the business community leaders, Don intends to open a cycling club where youths can be trained for events such as the Watts summer programs, the Amgen Tour of California, the Olympics, the Tour de France, and other cycling events. Don is presently employed and is in management at the Los Angeles Water Reclamation Department. He has been there for the past nine years.
Below is a video introduction to Inner City Cycling Connection, Inc. by its founder Mr. Don Harris
. Video created on January 17, 2020.
