Re: [CR]Coffee shop bicycle stores

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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:29:18 -0800
From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@gmail.com>
To: "Classic Rendevous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Coffee shop bicycle stores
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For whatever it is worth, Minneapolis has an interesting bicycle-coffee-sandwich shop in the downtown area, called One on One. If you enter via the front door, not being a backdoor man myself, you are immediately in the coffee-sandwich section, though hung on the walls around that section are bicycles of various vintage, including new Surlys, but lots of interesting bikes. In the middle section is a display of vintage bicycles, which often display Scott Davis' bikes. Over the past, I have seen a couple of beautiful early Masi's. The back area is for repair but has a display case of vintage parts that they are selling. The real treat is the basement, filled with bikes for sale, perhaps a couple hundred. Among them I have seen a couple of Chris Kvale's bikes. I assume the bikes in the basement are on consignment.

Going there around lunch time, parked outside you will find a number of spray-painted messenger bikes that belie their heritage.

Minneapolis does love its bicycle stuff, although the weather there makes for hearty winter riding.

Cheers.

Tom Hayes
Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA