Subject of the article and the focus of the article are only loosely related. Introduces us to the mobile repair service but talks mostly about dwindling bike shop sales. ( on a second reading it looks like the mobile service deals with sales too) The mobile repair service is clever but I don't think there would be a lot of profit in it unless customers would be willing to pay a serious premium for it. A bike shop could tune 5 bikes in the time it takes a truck to drive out to someones house and tune one. No comment on the guy who races triathlon but has to get a bike shop to tune his bike for him.
We have two shops in my town and the one I see regularly is doing well, expanded recently under a new owner and has latched onto a resurgence of our downtown. When I lived in Richmond about 15 years back, one of two bike shops in my neighborhood closed, but I see it has recently re-opened, so maybe all is not lost.
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