At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
by Anna Gustafson
Senior Editor
Soldiers who once fought in Iraq and Afghanistan toured the
Worksman Cycles factory in Ozone Park last week, getting a glimpse
of how workers are crafting the bikes being sold to benefit
individuals wounded while serving in the military.
Worksman Cycles, the last remaining bicycle manufacturer in the
country, announced last Thursday that it is making a new series of
bicycles and will donate at least 10 percent of revenue from each
one sold to the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit founded soon
after the start of the Iraq War in 2003 to help returning soldiers
with everything from receiving benefits to mentoring.
As the soldiers, as well as others affiliated with Wounded Warrior,
met workers like Errol Barrett, who has been a welder for more than
four decades, they learned about the bicycles that will be sold for
the project, which are being painted “haze grey” and “hell on
wheels khaki.” The bicycles range in price from $419 to the mid
$600s and are being sold at worksmancycles.com.
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At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Wayne Sosin, left, president of Worksman Cycles, explains how his company’s bikes are manufactured to retired Army Sgt. Stephen Siwulec, center, who served in Afghanistan, and retired Cpl. Timothy Strobel, who served in Iraq.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Rajdai Ramhulas works on a tire rim.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Roberto Combe stands by his work station, which is splashed with many of the bright colors he paints the bicycles.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
The Worksman Cycles factory is a maze of boxes of various bike parts, waiting to be shipped to places across the country.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
The Worksman Cycles factory is a maze of boxes of various bike parts, waiting to be shipped to places across the country.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Rodgers Stephenson brazes a bicycle at Worksman Cycles, the country’s last bike manufacturer. The factory has been in Ozone Park since 1979, but has been in existence since 1898.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Errol Barrett, who has been building bicycles for more than 40 years, brazes a bike frame at Worksman Cycles, which is housed in a building that once held a candle factory and is now solar powered.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Bruce Weinreb, director of Worksman Cycles’ custom programs and special markets, shows off some of the bikes the company is selling to benefit the Wounded Warrior nonprofit.
At Worksman Cycles, bikes for vets
Worksman Cycles employees concentrate on their work at the Ozone Park factory.
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