Another Update

It was almost a year and half ago that we rented a minivan to move ourselves, four bicycles, and whatever else fit... traveling a third of the way across the country to start afresh in Detroit. New home, new jobs, new appreciation for winter, and new business venture - Freighty Cat.
Over the past year, the start of production has remained out of grasp, while we have continued to learn more about the city, ourselves, and how we want to shape our company. We've certainly stayed busy in the meantime.
After the new year, we headed out to Oregon to visit the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon. We returned with a jig we helped assemble, some tubes we helped bend, a waxed canvas rain cape we helped fabricate, and a vision of our place within the Human Powered Network which we helped refine. We've found a number of options for shared work space. All that's left is to find our own alignment table, settle into a shop, and start making bikes. In the meantime, we've been doing a lot of mechanic work around town, with Kyle presently working full time at the Hub and Leslie working upstairs part time at Back Alley Bikes. She has also been gradually building up her bicycle-powered micro-distribution and promotion service, Bike-ro Distro, as well as riding for Greencycle. Meanwhile, during our search for bike building equipment, we've thriftily acquired some sturdy sewing machines and an entire silk screening rig, so there are some side projects looming in our future.
Thanks for embarking on this lurching journey with us. We still plan for our production to be happening here in Detroit in the near future, but if you just can't wait, similar products continue to be immediately available via Human Powered Machines (including an ever-expanding variety of rain capes in a number of colors and fabrics).
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xo
Leslie and Kyle