Freiker's mission is to help build sustainable communities by making walking and biking to school a way of life.

Freiker promotes healthier families, communities, and environments by providing a fun alternative to driving to school. As kids are rewarded for walking or biking each day, they reduce school traffic, develop a lifelong awareness of making responsible transportation choices, and become empowered to make a positive impact in their lives and the world.

Every day, when kids walk under the Freikometer at their school (a solar powered RFID reader), a cool buzzer sounds and their biking or walking trip is recorded on an internet database. This information is then used for various incentive programs that recognize kids' personal impact on their health and the environment.

Here is a link to a TV news story that shows a prototype Freiker system in action.

Kids love it - and it works!

Milestones

2004

• Freiker begins with a punch card system at Crest View Elementary.

2005

• The program switched to a bar code system where children's bikes were scanned with a hand scanner each day.

2006

• Freiker installs the first-ever Freikometer at Crest View.

• In December, two more schools (Foothill Elementary and Horizons K-8) joined our program.

• Freiker received its first grant from the Boulder Valley School District Safe Routes to School program.

2007

• Two additional schools joined the program (Casey Middle School in Boulder, CO and Eldorado K-8 in Superior, CO).

• Freiker receives its 501(c)(3) status.

2008

• Freiker launches its first walking and biking program at Burlington Elementary in Longmont, CO.

• 1 World, 2 Wheels (a Trek Bicycles commitment) becomes Freiker's first National Sponsor.

• Freiker begins national rollout.

2009

• Freiker launches at Almond Elementary in Los Altos, CA.

2010

• Freiker launches at Munroe Elementary in Denver, CO, Seward Montessori in Minneapolis, MN, and Plattville Middle School in Plattville, WI.