Thanks To Kryptonite Locks

Often when Roll It Forward donates bicycles to folks in the Boston area, those bicycles are accompanied by safety training and U-Locks. And thanks to a really good deal from our buddy Daryl at Kryptonite, we now have some high quality Kryptonite Keeper Locks to donate.

Did you know that Kryptonite is a Massachusetts-based company? Just another reason why they're awesome. 

Thanks Kryptonite!

We'll Get By With A Lot of Help From Our Friends (At Cantabrigian Mechanics)

 At Roll It Forward we get some real, uh...gems sometimes bike-wise. We spend a lot of time playing the role of alchemists, attempting to turn lead (or something else) into gold. The other day we were working on a Free Spirit "OUTRAGE" and the cable stops for the rear derailleur broke off during "pre-stretching." Pre-stretching is where you kind of tug on the cables lightly to settle the ferrules (housing end-caps) so that they don't do it themselves during use, causing the derailleur adjustment to go all out of whack. The cables don't really "stretch" at all.

The lifespan of a Free Spirit with a busted cable stop is about that of horse in the old west with a broken leg...

usually.

Except for when you have friends like Ricky DeFrancisco from Cantabrigian Mechanics to help you out. Ricky offered to braze a new cable stop onto our otherwise doomed OUTRAGE so that it could get fixed up and donated to a deserving Boston resident. Cantabrigian generally does very high end, high quality work, but they took time out of their busy schedule to get awesome on a maybe-not-so-awesome-bike for the Roll It Forward program and we appreciate it greatly. Thanks guys!

Thanks To Eastern Mountain Sports

 

Roll It Forward relies on various partners in the Boston area to provide the program with bikes, Eastern Mountain Sports is one of those awesome partners. EMS encourages their customers to donate their old bikes to RIF and thus far they have have been incredibly successful — collecting countless bikes, many of them in phenomenal condition!

 

Big, HUGE thanks to EMS for their support of the Roll It Forward program.