1984 Olympic bicycle owner creates distinctive bicycles for teenagers with disabilities

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Olympic medalist Brent Emery is a die-hard bicycle owner via and thru.

“Each Olympics I carry on pondering, ‘oh, I may come again once more,'” stated Emery.

It might be greater than 30 years since Emery raced within the 1984 Olympics, however he nonetheless remembers it prefer it was yesterday.

“It was simply one of many nice moments of my life,” stated Emery.

Emery was a bicycle owner representing the USA on the Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles. He took residence a silver medal after his workforce got here in second place for the boys’s workforce pursuit.

“Every one in all us on the workforce did simply one thing particular, it was simply actually an important race,” stated Emery.

From then on, Emery raced professionally as a bicycle owner till he was 58 years previous. However now, he has a brand new interest: inventing and constructing bicycles for teenagers with disabilities.

“Proper now, I am constructing three to 5 incapacity bikes per week. Each few years, we carry on studying new issues to do and actually inventing extra issues for the incapacity market,” stated Emery.

Emery says he began making these sorts of bicycles to be able to be sure that everybody may expertise the enjoyment of motorcycle driving.

“Some individuals that may’t pedal with their legs, they pedal with the handcycles. It will get individuals out of the home the place they in any other case could be home-bound,” stated Emery.

And whereas he does not have any extra plans to race professionally in the mean time, Emery says proper now, the very best a part of his life is with the ability to make a optimistic influence on his group.

This story was initially revealed by Taylor Lumpkin at WTMJ.