Acme Bicycle Company featured in Pitch Weekly

This week's issue of Pitch Weekly features the ACME Bicycle Company, which is in Kansas City's Crossroads District. (Incidentally, ACME is a MoBikeFed Bicycle Business Member.)

The Pitch article talks about the bicycling philosophy of ACME owners Sarah Gibson and Christi Lynne:

"First off, we have more highway miles per capita than any other city in North America -- we don't have to deal with traffic congestion," Gibson says. "Second -- our cost of living, our cost of housing, is such that we have more disposable income to spend on gasoline." But this Acme realism is easily countered by Acme optimism.

"If one person took one [bicycle] trip a week," Gibson says, "to the library, the grocery store, coffee, whatever -- "

"The whole power structure would change," Lynne finishes.

Using gas prices as a timely example, the women lay down a perfectly sensible vision of a more sustainable, more bicycle-friendly Kansas City. One in which, for example, the Plaza has a bike rack and Main Street is painted with a commuter lane for two-wheelers. This vision stems not so much from liberal sentiment, though that's definitely present. (Acme's logo is a peace symbol.) For Lynne and Gibson, bikes are the purest, simplest way to fix a lot of our problems, from pollution to obesity.

Read the complete article here.