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Donate Bikes and Mr. Kraynik will fix them for Kids

November 6, 2008 Lindsay 1 Comment

Kraynick's on Penn AveImage by lemonad via FlickrI have been fascinated by this bike shop ever since I read about this project last year in the Post-Gazette (click here to see the 2007 article). I wasn’t even sure that shop was still in business but ever since I read the article I keep seeing people wearing Kraynick’s Bike T-shirts (Where can I get one?).

Well Bike Pgh just posted an article from the Post-Gazette – the Bike Before Christmas project is back for another holiday season. This is a project that is coordinated by the City of Pittsburgh Police and Jerry Kraynick. This is the 4th year of the program – last year Mr. Kraynick with the help of some volunteers tuned up 230 bikes which were distributed to kids for Christmas.

You can help by donating bikes to:

Kraynick’s Bikes, 5300 Penn Ave or any of the City’s Police Stations

  • Zone 1, 1501 Brighton Road, North Side
  • Zone 2, 2000 Centre Ave., Hill District
  • Zone 3, 18th and Mary Streets,
  • South Side
  • Zone 4, 5858 Northumberland St., Squirrel Hill
  • Zone 5, Penn Circle West at Broad Street, East Liberty.

Check out this awesome panorama photo of the bike shop that the Post-Gazette put together. Here is a write up on the shop in Dirt Rag magazine.

I enjoyed reading more about this bike shop – here is what some other bloggers that wrote about Kraynick’s:

  • Maintain – compares a NYC shop to Kraynick’s
  • Breathing Dirt – Mr. Kraynick helped him build a bike to ride in the MS150
  • Null Space – Chris Briem cites this article as “What Makes Pittsburgh Pittsburgh”
  • SF Cyclotouring – “my all-time favorite shop in the whole wide world”
  • Everything Nathan – Mr. Kraynick helped build Nathan’s bike

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Filed Under: Community Resources, Kids 'burgh, Non-Profits, Outdoors Tagged With: bikes, bikes for kids, Christmas, donate, Kids, kraynick's bikes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, what makes pittsburgh pittsburgh

About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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