Tandem bikes notwithstanding, a bicycle in and of itself is a solidary mode of transportation—you, a couple of wheels, pedal power, a chain and steering. But use a Red Bike, and your velocipede all of a sudden has a whole peloton of bike mechanics, managers and aficionados riding along.

Meet the team that keeps Cincy Red Bike rolling along throughout the streets of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Launching in 2014 with 29 stations and 260 bikes, Red Bike now has 56 stations and 442 bikes making their way around town. This spring Red Bike hit 250,000 rides in less than a thousand days of operation.

All those wheels don’t keep turning without some help, from logistics to maintenance, and that’s where the Red Bike team comes in.

Jason Barron has been the executive director since day one; Ben Westfall is a field technician; Joe Koehl is a senior technician and long-time cyclist; Randy Evans handles customer service and internal ops; Doug McClintoch is ops manager and is also president of CORA, Cincinnati Off Road Alliance, the local international mountain biking chapter; Taylor Sayles is an assistant technician and Elese Daniels is education and outreach manager.

Barron admits he wasn’t a biker until he became involved in Red Bike after his role ended in Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory’s office. “At the end of that tenure I was looking for something to do,” he said. “The first person I talked with recommended I take a look at the new bike share program they were about to start.