In March 2005, I was plagued with complaints from my kids about having
to ride their bikes to school. In December 2007, that problem has been
solved. And many, many more kids are riding their bikes to school in
Boulder, too. These children are healthier, more attentive, and more
independent. What more could a parent ask for?

The frequent biker program called Freiker that I started in March 2005
is operating at five Boulder Valley schools, and could grow to more,
many more. Unfortunately, we have four idle Freikometers sitting in
my basement, waiting to be installed, because we can't afford the
prizes for the kids.

A Freikometer is a fully automatic counting device. It uses solar
power so it can be deployed at a school's bike racks. The kids have
RFID tags on their helmets. When they ride by the Freikometer, they
hear a ring, letting them know they have been counted. The
Freikometer uploads their rides anonymously to freiker.org where
parents and kids can check their rides and (real soon now) order
prizes. The Freikometer differentiates Freiker from all other bike
encouragement programs. In techobabble, it's what makes Freiker
scalable.

Freiker could be doubling the ridership at four more schools in 2008,
like we did for Crest View Elementary. We just need to install
Freikometers and find a way to pay for the prizes. Many schools have
inquired about Freiker. All we need is a small amount of money per
school to make a significant change in children's health and
everybody's environment.

Crest View Elementary will have over 20,000 bike trips this year at a
cost of 33 cents per trip ($6,000/year). Before Freiker, kids were
riding their bikes only half that many times. What's more is that the
more kids ride, the cheaper the per trip cost to Freiker. No other
bike encouragement program we know of can claim this type of success.
The environmental benefits alone are worth it.

Freiker is a 501(c)3 charity (EIN 56-2539016). Its primary sponsor is
bivio Software, Inc. bivio has spent $45K on Freiker in the last two
years. We have also contributed another $200K in labor, and we will
continue to do so. But we need your help.

For every dollar you send in by December 31, 2007, bivio will donate a
dollar's worth of labor. We worked out the kinks in the Freikometer's
design last summer, but we need to improve the freiker.org user
experience. We can't afford to write that software, to purchase the
hardware and RFID tags, to host the website, AND to fund the prizes
for the kids.

Please send your matching donation to:

  Freiker, Inc.
  2369 Spotswood Place
  Boulder, CO 80304-0994

Or, donate online at freiker.org:

  http://www.freiker.org/site/donate

Or, sponsor our Cause on Facebook:

  http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/41355?recruiter_id=10455783

And, please forward this email to all your friends.

Thank you for helping society this holiday season.

Cheers,
Rob Nagler
Chairman, Freiker, Inc.
Chairman & CEO, bivio Inc.