To say Doug Charlton is passionate about fixing bikes is an understatement.

The retired builder lives in Invermere, B.C., and regularly rummages through dumpsters, salvaging abandoned bikes from the scrap metal pile.

Since the spring, he’s fixed up at least 250 bikes to send to children in remote communities in northern Canada.

Most of the bikes came from the landfill, Charlton said, but he also receives donations and occasionally picks a few up from thrift shops that he then fixes.

“I still remember