meet the makers

Born from a love of ice cream & bikes, Sweet Ride Ice Cream Sandwiches was created by Elliot Rappleye & Cathy Cleary in the winter of 2023 and launched in Traverse City, Michigan Spring of ‘25.

Elliot’s background as a professional chef and huge passion for restoring vintage mountain bikes combined with Cathy’s 14 years in the wedding industry sparked an exciting conversation one fine Winter day and over the next year, Sweet Ride was born.

Rather than buy a new cart, we chose to restore a well loved 1992 Worksman Vending tricycle we came across nearby, in the middle of the mitten. We gave it a glow up and we’re in love with how it turned out!

we then sought out the highest quality ice cream Michigan has to offer (Moovile & the Farmer’s creamery - both Grassfed, a2 herds), paired them with the perfect made from scratch cookies and created an exclusive line of ice cream sandwiches & bespoke ice Pops!

We source ingredients locally & seasonally , whenever possible, and focus on non-plastic, biodegradable packaging.