Bicycling

We’ve lot a few good bike shops in Roanoke over the past few years. It’s a tough business and the pandemic didn’t help. One of them (Starlight) stopped selling bikes for a very good reason: the owner found a better business. Two of them found new homes with bigger stores in the area. I’d bought bikes or various services from each of them and it was nice to have the variety of stores each with their own feel and focus.

I was pretty excited to order a couple of State Bicycle 6061 Black Label All-Road bicycles from a LBS in April. At the time, they said it would be the end of June for delivery. That seemed OK to me. I’ve got plenty of other bikes and that leaves plenty of time for summer riding. Then the date slipped to July…then to late August. It’s a First World sort of problem, but still annoying.