Almost 75 local teens participated in a bicycle skills and safety event on Wednesday (May 12, 2021) in the Ocean City Civic Center parking lot at Fifth Street and Boardwalk.
The event was open to Ocean City youth and included a safety presentation from the Community Policing Unit along with a skills competition will include wheelies and freestyle with prizes provided by local merchants. In a random drawing, Jane Heng won a $1,000 SE Monster Ripper 29” bicycle donated by the Tuckahoe Bike Shop. She donated the prize to her older brother, Joseph Heng.
Skills contest winners included:
- Calvin Gaddy for longest wheelie
- Travis Bickley for best swerve
Mayor Jay Gillian, Police Chief Jay Prettyman, the Ocean City Community Services Department and a group of parents worked together to plan the event and promote safe riding.
Local sponsors included:
- Tuckahoe Bike Shop (grand prize)
- 6th Street Pizza and Grill (pizza and soda for participants)
- 7th Street Surf Shop ($50 gift cards)
- Jilly’s Stores (arcade play cards)
- City Councilmen Keith Hartzell and Jody Levchuk (T-shirts for participants)
- Fractured Prune (gift cards)
- Ocean City Police Benevolent Association (Wawa gift cards for safety quiz winners)
