Doylestown Shop Donates Bike to Police

When Brian Boger read that the Doylestown Township police department was thinking about creating a bike patrol, he knew just the people who could help - the owners of the Doylestown Bike Works.

Thankfully for the police, Boger didn't have much trouble convincing the owners to donate a bicycle to the new patrol. It was an easy sell, given that he is one of the owners.

"When we learned what (the police) needed, we knew we could help." Boger told Doylestown Patch on Thursday.

Boger and Fran Taloricco co-own the newest bicycle speciality shop to come to Doylestown. They opened on North Main Street on Black Friday, 2011, and have been doing so well, "it almost looks like we know what we're doing," Boger joked.

Dan Turner runs the shop while Taloricco and Boger are at their day jobs. Boger works in Bucks County's juvenile court division, which helps explain the donation to the cops.

"I work in the courts, so I’m sympathetic to law enforcement, generally," he said. "Police charities are something we're involved in at the shop."

After reading about the proposed bike patrol, Boger called Doylestown Township Police Chief Dean Logan and told him the shop would like to donate a bike to get the patrol going.

Logan gave that good news to the township supervisors earlier this week.

"Doylestown Bike Works has generously donated a bike to us," Logan said during Tuesday's supervisors' meeting, adding that the department will start training on the bike patrol next week.

Supervisors' chair Barbara Lyons asked township manager Stephanie Mason to send the bike shop "some kind of thank you."

Boger said he worked with a sales representative from bicycle manufacturer Jamis Bicycles. The company produces a model used by police departments, Boger said. The bike the shop donated to the township is a Jamis Exile model with a black finish and "police" decals.

Officer Justin Notarfrancesco will be the first officer on the designated bike patrol. Logan said earlier that Notarfrancesco has expressed an interest in bicycle policing for the past few years.

Township officials hope the new bike patrol will help curb incidents of graffiti and vandalism in the township's parks and along the bike and hike trails, among other things.

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