Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tricycle Dreams


This is the pedi-truck cradling the mini flat-bed trike as it develops to a young work-horse for the shop. Angel meticulously removed the paint with the grinder and a hot new stripping disk that was clean and fast and precise. Notice the park stand bolted to the flatbed mothership. The mover-trike sat in El Barrio on Pleasant Ave. for the winter under a tarp. We were too crammed to fit her in the shop. It pained Angel that his first trike workhorse love was rusting away in the salty winter air. He braved the snow of January on the pedi-truck to resurrect the work-horse that got him where he is today atop New York's finest journeymen and craftsmen.


The red trike in the foreground came from our loving benefactor Steph at Red Hill Farm, a CSA in Aston PA, where it suffered weathering, but Sean from Recycle a bike, Times-up, our old bike shop, and A-Bicycle fame has brought it through here for us to rehabilitate and test. We believe in a strict testing regimen in order to assure the vehicle we repair is safe and sturdy.

Angel is developing an emergency bicycle transoprt bolt-on attatchment system to tow broken-down bicycles and even a rider back to the shop.

Like flowers after the winter, our business has blossomed over the last few sunny days. We have muchos jobs waiting but we are keeping up.
Hopefully we will be able to keep this up with our new resoursecful ideas. We seek to validate cycling as a legitimate form of transportation and elevate it past the internal combustion engine. Cycling is a healthy affordable way of getting around. This is a great alternative to the rising cost of public transportation combined saving on a gym membership.

1 comment:

  1. Little red rooster
    Little red trike
    I ain't no junkie
    But I know what I like!

    Lookin' good fellas!

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