{"id":165537,"date":"2018-06-27T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=165537"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:46:36","slug":"a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the point in visiting your LBS?<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>It\u2019s more than the parts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Your LBS may have greater overheads, meaning that the price of the components and bikes is steeper, but they have an ace up their sleeve \u2013 knowledge. Visiting your LBS is much about getting a second opinion from a qualified mechanic who\u2019s experienced enough to give you the answer you need.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=5Xf6RNael_g params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/5Xf6RNael_g\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p><em>Em\u2019s group ride is cancelled, so she visits her LBS for a chat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unlike online forums, which either seem to assume you\u2019re a Tour de France mechanic or an 8-year-old child, your LBS staff will get to know you \u2013 and your bikes. This means that for a little extra money for your hardware, you\u2019ll get timely, nuanced, and personalised advice from someone who cares.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Surprises everywhere<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing like visiting a city, in another country, and finding an unusual LBS offering a speciality range of bikes and components you can\u2019t get at home, or online. In Florence, there\u2019s the excellent Eroica that offers vintage Italian bikes from the 60s to the 80s.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=n-tgSXswgRs params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/n-tgSXswgRs\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p><em>Try walking out of this shop without buying a bike. Impossible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I also love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zeJLGEtgIJ8\">this video<\/a> from 2002 &#8211; a bike shop in Rome that offered a Colnago-Ferrari collaborative roadie. What makes the video so magical is that the shop wasn\u2019t the reason for the journey \u2013 it\u2019s just something that was stumbled upon. A friend of mine visited Indonesia and told me of the excellent Velodome in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Velodome Bike Shop - Jakarta, Indonesia\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23155188?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Support the community and it will support you<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Epic BMX in Westminster, Southern California know that they\u2019ve got to stay ahead of the curve to keep their customers coming back. They have a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_epicbmx\/?hl=en\">social media<\/a> presence, but Epic BMX know that the most important presence is physical. They\u2019ve just announced a mobile workshop.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=pWjVBkcRv2M params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/pWjVBkcRv2M\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p><em>\u201chomies\u201d hanging at the shop, chatting plans and bikes\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, Epic BMX plan to bring the LBS to you. Snap a chain at the park? This LBS will sling you another.\u00a0 Blow a tube? They\u2019ll patch you up. All they ask in return is you visit their shop. Maybe Amazon will eventually send a drone with the part, but they won\u2019t be able to true your wheel quickly when dropping off a new tyre.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Personal relationships<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Most importantly, your LBS offers you a relationship with other like-minded people. I could geek out about changing bottom bracket conventions till the cows come home, but sadly my wife isn\u2019t quite as passionate.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=I56m7KF7Erc params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/I56m7KF7Erc\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p><em>smile<\/em> <em>and relax\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll leave you with this final video of Bob Warner\u2019s bike shop from Leicester, England. \u201cBob\u201d will happily chat about bottom brackets, while you wonder at the treasure trove of bike parts stacked around his shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":165542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[2077,2076],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-165537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-bike-shop","tag-local-bike-shope"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-27T12:46:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Christopher Ashley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/\",\"name\":\"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop - \u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-27T12:46:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"description\":\"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp\",\"width\":900,\"height\":600},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\",\"name\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"description\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine\",\"alternateName\":\"\u0160koda WLC\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop","og_description":"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the","og_url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/","og_site_name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","article_published_time":"2018-06-27T12:46:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Christopher Ashley","Est. reading time":"6"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/","name":"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp","datePublished":"2018-06-27T12:46:36+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"description":"You can buy everything cheaper online, and while you wait for it to arrive, you don\u2019t have to wait for your Local Bike Shop (LBS) to open. So what\u2019s the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/06\/profimedia-0142961436-1.webp","width":900,"height":600},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/06\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-local-bike-shop\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Love Letter to the Local Bike Shop"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/","name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine","alternateName":"\u0160koda WLC","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165541,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165537\/revisions\/165541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165537"},{"taxonomy":"global-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global-categories?post=165537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}