I have been back in North Carolina visiting my 91 year old father and recuperating from having 3 stents inserted in my heart. They wanted to use titanium but I insisted on Reynolds 531! I had though that a 600 mile bike tour over to Big Bend would be the ultimate stress test. Boy, was I wrong. Finished with flying colors only to have the heart issue crop up a few months later.
I have read with interest the comments about the shop name. I have enormous respect for Harvey (and Dale) and never intended to offend. Several of you have pointed out the uniqueness of Bisbee and the Old West. For a bit of history, my first shop was in a building that formerly housed a brothel upstairs, but the space I was in had been the Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall (probably not a good basis for a name). Out west, the line between the sacred and profane is not always a bright line. My new location is in the oldest hotel in the county in a space occupied from 1920-1941 by the Old French Kitchen. And I can assure you that sex has also been sold in this building as well.
Being a college English major and fond of alliteration, and in light of my location on Brewery Gulch, the most notorius street in the history of Arizona, the name seemed right. Plus, I had many lovely ladies to be visited. And the name lent itself to some good slogans: "Pedal Your Ass at Our Place" and "The Best Little Wheelhouse in Arizona." Our logo is an 1885 photo of a naked woman on a high wheeler, but I discretely covered her dainty bits with the shop name. I'm no cad.
As a side note, remember that many of the houses of ill repute were owned and operated by women who were frequently leading citizens in these Old West towns. In Bisbee, Madame Mabel was famous for her operation on Brewery Gulch.
If any of you would like a T shirt, I have them in black or white with the shop logo on the back. I also have T shirts that have a heart, a peace sign, the letter N and the words bicycle grease (Love, Peace and Bicycle Grease) on the back. Either one for $20 delivered by USPS Priority Mail. Let me now and I will send them out, and when you receive it, you can send me a check.
I also have caps in black or charcoal with a Rene Herse porteur on the front and "Best Little Wheelhouse in AZ on the rear ($22 Priority Mail).
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season. Come visit the shop if you get a chance. We are open on weekends but will be glad to open other times if you call. Where else will you find a complete bar with the finest bourbon on top of a Campy tool kit, as well a great British ales and stouts (and for free to CR'ers). You can enjoy your drink out back in the Zen garden in front of the fountain created by the famous Concrete Dick (or, as the vicar's wife called him, Cement Richard).
Ken
Ken Wallace, Proprietor
Bisbee Bicycle Brothel
43 Brewery Ave.
in the Silver King Hotel
PO Box 1194
Bisbee, AZ 85603
USA
(520) 236-4855 (cell)
http://www.bisbeebicyclebrothel.com