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If your child has a bike but no helmet, the Biscari Brothers bicycle shop in Liberty is waiting for you.

According to Ed Chasteen, a local bike riding enthusiast, members of the Greater Liberty Riders club donated money to buy 100 helmets. Chasteen is also a member of the bike-riders’ organization.

“We have free helmets to give away for boys and girls 3 or 4 years old to 18 or 19 years old,” Chasteen said. “We were able to buy them for $465. It was a really good deal.”

Chasteen said the helmets are available at Biscari Brothers, 884 S. 291 Highway in the Price Chopper shopping center at the corner of Liberty Drive and Missouri Highway 291.

“They’ll help fit them if they just go in there,” Chasteen said.

Chasteen said the club’s goal was to make sure all children wear a helmet when they ride their bikes. He said once all the helmets were claimed, the club would buy more helmets.

Chasteen said the project started when the Northland Optimist Club, which was collecting bicycles at Christmas time to give to children who otherwise might not be able to afford one, contacted him.

“We had an anonymous donor who gave $1,000 to buy the bikes, and we thought we shouldn’t be giving bikes out without helmets,” Chasteen said.

Chasteen said about 16 of the helmets were to be given to the Optimists to go along with the bikes the club had purchased or acquired.

A spokesman for the bike shop said they were open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Chasteen said anyone interested in biking is invited to join the Greater Liberty Riders group.

He said during the winter they meet at Biscari Brothers at 8 a.m. on Saturday mornings, depending on the weather and go for a bike ride. Starting in April, he said they would meet at 7:30 a.m.

“We then ride to a nearby town and have breakfast,” Chasteen said.

According to Chasteen, over the years about 315 people had participated in the rides at one time or another but not all at the same time.

“In the winter sometimes only one or two will show up, but in good weather, we might get 40 or 50,” he said.

Liberty Editor Angie Anaya Borgedalen can be reached at 781-4941 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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