In-line wheel company aims to get more people rolling

Christopher Allen

11/11/2022

SKATE CREW: Francisco Ramirez, left, is the owner of Junk Wheels, an in-line skate wheel company in Cranston. At right are Kaylyn Fells, who handles the company’s social media, and Edgar Meneses, who works in shipping. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Francisco Ramirez has taken the economic slide in stride. Despite his Cranston-based in-line skating company being slowed by the pandemic, supply chain bottlenecks and inflation, he retains a Confucian philosophy. “I would do it for free,” he said. Raised in Medellin, Colombia, Ramirez immigrated to the United States in 1995. An avid speed skater for

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