Creativity runs in Ally Kirkpatrick’s blood, flowing into her ice cream business “Fabled Ice Cream,” and into an ice cream bicycle she rides around events selling pints out of the ice box contraption that’s part of the bike.
Ally’s bike is an “Icicle Tricycle,” model they make in Portland, OR but she managed to find a used one at a good price and put some work into it. “I thought it would be cool, I found one for $800 on Facebook Marketplace,” she said. Her particular bike had some mileage on it so she had a mechanic come over and work some magic, and now it’s a part of the whole show at Fabled. “It’s like a promotion for the brick and mortar,” she said.
The brick and mortar she’s talking about for Fabled Ice Cream is a store space she’s working on at 7940 Fort Hunt Road in the Hollin Hall Shopping Center. She is currently gutting it and setting up the inside to have ready for their opening in 2027. The bike will be part of it.
Fabled ice cream is small batch ice cream Kirkpatrick makes at St. Aidens, a nearby church where she rents the kitchen a few times a month. The ice cream bike gets noticed though, mostly from her presence at the local Sherwood Hall Farmer’s Market. She is scheduled to be there on Sept. 23, Oct. 21 and Nov. 18.
“This is the cutest little ice cream bicycle I have ever seen,” said one customer on social media.
At the bike manufacturer in Portland, a brand new “Icicle Tricycle,” starts at $3,400. Their selling points include a reinforced folding frame, gloss white cargo box designed to keep the products frozen, chilled, or warm, seven speeds with an external Shimano Derailleur, and front and rear lights. Ice cream bikes are not their only type, they also sell custom vending bikes; coffee bikes, cold brew bikes, advertising bikes, and custom hand-built cargo bikes.
https://www.fabledicecream.com/