Cycling industry pivots to COVID-19 protective equipment production

Kitsbow is one of a handful of cycling industry players who have halted normal production to address the worldwide shortage of personal protective equipment.  The company has gone from designing baggies and jerseys to making face shields, and prototyping face masks.

Kitsbow’s CEO David Billstrom said “I just happened to have been a first responder for the last 38 years, so I contacted a couple buddies and we thought it would be kinda a sideline project…But they said send as many as you can, as fast as you can.”

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By Betsy Welch

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