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riding to work and class occasionally,” said Biggs. “After I was accepted as a rider, I began training last December [2009]. Riders commit themselves to ride at least 500 miles before the Brandon Biggs is pedaling non-stop on a statrip leaves and at least one ride of 65 miles or tionary bike, preparing to bike across the United longer. States to help build homes for the poor and less “I am now completely hooked on cycling fortunate. and I ride as often as I possibly can, even if it Biggs, 23, a Louisiana native and a Cocoa, means on a stationary bike in my living room Fla., resident is a first-year law student at Roger through this New England winter,” he said. Williams University in Bristol, R.I. He is train“Some [riders] are absolutely head over ing for 80-mi.-per-day rides in order to do “sweat equity” with a local affordable housing Brandon Biggs will heels for affordable housing and that is the drivgroup, so that in spring he can help contractors spend 10 weeks ing force of biking. For me, and many others, it and construction work crews put up homes for traveling the coun- was the adventure of riding that really made me try by bicycle and want to do this. The fact that it was for a great the homeless in a half dozen states. building houses. cause was an added bonus.” Away from studying the law, Biggs has Bike, Then Build Biggs is one of dozens of young people, aged 18 to 25, learned all about “sweat equity.” “I think one of the main reasons that B&B has riders do who have joined Bike & Build, a national organization that has raised $2.78 million over eight years to help various sweat equity is not only to gain experience in building, but it housing groups build homes. Its expansive national footprint causes you to fall in love with the cause. I will never forget allows it to promote the need of affordable housing in 47 the satisfaction and pride I shared with the young lady I was states, one province and hundreds of communities nation- working with in St. Augustine, Fla., last year as we wrapped her shed in weatherproofing, and she was called into what wide. Biggs first heard about B&B from a friend during his would soon be her kitchen to pick out the color for her countertops. It was such a simple thing as color, but she glowed undergrad years at Flagler College. “I fell in love with the idea of seeing the country at the knowing that she and her kids would soon have a home and pace of a bicycle. At that time, my experience with bikes was I was elated to be able to share in the last day of her sweat limited to owning a mountain bike I bought at Wal-Mart, and see BUILDING page 6