Brian Sink thinks kids should have bicycles. In fact, he’s willing to give bikes away to kids who need them.

Mr. Sink is the manager at Red Lantern Bike Shop, a store that lives in an old shipping container next to Braddock’s Free Store 15104. Mr. Sink and a team of volunteers will repair bikes that need some help, charging only when they don’t have a part in the store’s scrounged inventory and have to buy something. But most of the repair work has a different purpose; the shop collects used bicycles, refurbishes them and hand them out families with kids who might not be able to afford a bike otherwise.

The giveaways, held on Saturdays, are for kid-sized bicycles, and the shop will only give them out to children who are accompanied by an adult. “Usually we set up 10 or 15 little kids’ bikes out here in the parking lot,” he said. “We’re talking kids’ bikes, Spider-Man bikes, princess bikes, the smaller ones. We do pretty well.”

First Published: May 16, 2018, 7:48 p.m.