BikeVON is a 501c3 tax-exempt not-for-profit organization created in January 2014. The objective is to teach Metro Detroit youth ages 9 – 16, competitive velodrome and road cycling, rules and laws of cycling in Michigan, nutritional for a health body and provide bike share facilities for community centers.Mission Statement:To increase cycling awareness, accessibility and affordability for youth in Metro Detroit ages 11 – 18, while teaching them the core values of diversity, inclusion, a healthy lifestyle and community service to support their health and emotional issues facing under-active children of today.Educate, Advocate, and Motivate Through CyclingVision:BikeVON envisions competitive cycling teams (velodrome, rode and BMX) comprised of youth of color and bike share facilities at Metro Detroit community centers. Core Philosophies:• BikeVON- teaching the laws and rules of smart cycling while showing communities how to support cycling.-EDUCATE• BikeVON – to represent the League of The program title is The Velodrome Program. It offers Metro Detroit youth from under-resourced communities experiences for:• Learn the discipline associated with being an athlete. • To set goals and train to become part of a competitive cycling team.• Experiences to benefit from mentoring by our experienced coaches.• To learn and practice how to eat and exercise for a healthy life.• To learn how to become active citizens in their community.The major challenges for BikeVON is transportation; transportation of the youths and bikes and food. The effect limits the number of participants. Due to the ages of the youth, hours of practice and location of the facility is the program requires the organization to pick up and return the kids home. The facilities are not on a major bus route. Parents are either at work or do not have transportation to assist transporting youth. The uniqueness of the year 11 month program is the time a youth is immerse in the environment to support a change in behavior. Research shows, That some of the habits take around 254 days to form — the better part of a year! What this research suggests is that 21 days to form a habit is probably right, as long as all you want to do is drink a glass of water after breakfast. Anything harder is likely to take longer to become a really strong habit, and, in the case of some activities, much longer. BikeVON is a supportive environment where the youth and adults are practicing exercising and healthy eating together. This is extremely important because many families do not model that behavior.• As a yearly program, a returning youth has the opportunity to develop the athletic prowess and earn a college scholarship. • Youth learn how to set goals, evaluate results, and take steps to achieve the goals.• Teach youth the principles of bicycle riding and racing, as well as teach him/her teamwork and enhance his/her physical and psychological development.