26 | SEPTEMBER 15 • 2022 

faces&places

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JARC

JARC Adaptive Biking 
Event with MoGo

TOP: Several residents from two JARC homes enjoyed their day biking.
ABOVE LEFT: Nussbaum home manager Melissa steers a bike while Shirley gets a ride.
ABOVE RIGHT: Lori rides a bike alongside a MoGo employee.

J

ARC, a nonprofit orga-
nization serving adults 
with developmental 
disabilities, partnered with 
Adaptive MoGo in Detroit 
on Aug. 3, to give the people 
they serve the opportunity to 
participate in accessible bike 
riding. 
Ten people JARC serves 
attended the event and were 
excited about this new expe-
rience. Some of those indi-
viduals hadn’t ridden a bike 
for years and, for others, this 
unique experience provided 
them the ability to ride a bike 
for the very first time. 
Adaptive MoGo accommo-
dates a wide range of rider 
needs with 16 different cycle 
offerings, including recum-
bent tricycles, upright cargo 
tricycles, hand tricycles, tan-
dem bicycles, tandem tricy-
cles, side-by-side quadricycles 
and a box-bike. The different 
riding options allowed indi-
viduals who use wheelchairs 
to bike ride and provided spe-
cial accommodations to assist 
the riders and keep them safe 
during their experience. 
The event was a great 
opportunity for the people 
JARC serves to experience 
something new and to get out 
in the fresh air for some exer-
cise. 

ABOVE: Abbey and Brooke enjoy 
a ride on a modified bicycle built 
for two.

