No gas? No problem: Bicycle sales, interest on the rise locally
By Amy F. Reiter
Sunday July 6, 2008
Amy F. Reiter
Max Schnuer fixes a tire in the workspace of The Bike Project, a bicycle cooperative in downtown Urbana.
The Bike Project's warehouse may look like the place where bicycles come to die, but really, it's just the opposite: This is where bicycles are reborn.
And, as gas prices rise and word of mouth gets out about the warehouselike space in the basement of Urbana's Independent Media Center, more and more bicycles are coming and going as more people join the cooperative or just pedal by to work on an off-kilter wheel or get a replacement part.
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