I wasn't like a hardcore cyclist before I started at SRAM.
I actually embarassingly didn't even own a bike at the time.
I wanted to be an engineer for a while actually.
Even before then I always liked building stuff and making stuff.
I got power tools for Hanukkah, in third grade.
I mean bikes are just really cool mechanical systems — one.
And then two, bikes are just awesome. They're good
for the environment. Like they're the best way to get around the city. It just
seemed like a really cool product to work on from all angles.
I love to ride bikes now — four years later.
I love exploring Chicago. Chicago's an amazing
city and it's great to just kind of explore all the different neighborhoods
and all the different restaurants, you could literally eat at a different place
every day for the rest of your life.
I've taken some different paths, I didn't know
exactly what I wanted to do after I got out of college and I wasn't into cycling
really until right after college I had this opportunity to go to Australia.
I met a person who worked in a bike shop — I don't even remember having an interview.
They were just excited to have have a woman in the shop,
and from there I fell in love with bicycles.
SRAM provides a really good work-life balance. I love that I have that
flexibility it helps me enjoy my job and at the same time go home and be with my
family because they make me happy, and so does my job so I guess I'm just happy!
I fell in love with someone who lived in Chicago of all places.
Before I even moved here, I was hounding the SRAM careers pages,
you know cuz I knew that oh my gosh wouldn't that be amazing.
Everybody here at the end of the day just wants people on bikes, you know, and
to share that passion with people, it's infectious.
I'm an artist first and foremost. I mean I leave work to go home and work on
projects. I'm always going, I'm always thinking about what can I make next.
Since working for SRAM I have absolutely felt that family vibe.
I didn't think that I had the chops to live in Chicago and I've definitely
found a safety net here.
I don't necessarily consider myself an athlete.
I worked in non-profit consulting, we sold to a non-profit a two-day 200 mile bike ride.
That made a big transition in my life and my husband's life and we moved
from being the type of people that maybe rode our bikes down to Navy Pier to now
people that spend most of our weekends out on our bikes exploring areas here in
Illinois, around the country and even around the world.
My role within World Bicycle Relief is really to serve for myself
and with our team as storytellers.
I'm Ruth-Anne Renuad and I'm the Director of Global Marketing at World Bicycle Relief.
My name is Rachel Baber and I am a Visual Production Coordinator.
My name is Amy Ginn. I'm a Senior Graphic Designer
for the marketing department here at SRAM.
My name is Rachel Cahan and I'm a Design Engineer here at SRAM.
We should want to have more talented players in the mix.
If we only spend time with people who are just like ourselves
then we have the potential of living in a smaller world not a bigger world.