Event wrap-up We had a good turn-out for some of our Bike to Work Week events last week! Glad to see so many people out and supporting the biking community! Did you find events in your area? Tell me about them in the comments field. -Elise Go By Bike is a daily video series that talks about how to be green by riding more and using your car less, including electric bikes, electric kits, cargo bikes, bike safety, and

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Join us for our first monthly Carrboro Cruiser Ride, a family-friendly bike ride around Carrboro.

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It is campaign season again, and there are a number of candidates running for the Board of Aldermen in our sleepy little town of Carrboro, NC (right next to Chapel Hill, NC). Just a few days ago, Sierra Club held a candidates forum. One question they asked the candidates was how they might improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians. While we found all of the responses to be lacking (perhaps in part due to the reporting in the

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In June, Cycle 9, along with the other bike shops in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, won an award for working together to promote bicycle transportation as an alternative to cars. The award reads: Go Chapel Hill Commute Challenger Award Chapel Hill & Carrboro Bike Shops The Town of Chapel Hill recognizes all of the Chapel Hill & Carrboro Bicycle Shops for outstanding participation in Bike to Work Week events. Rarely do competing businesses put aside their own bottom lines for

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We had the pleasure of making it out to the Shakori Hill Festival today to let the kids participate in various events such as the Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and to listen to a bit of good music. The organizers had a booth there, asking for contributions towards a solar electic system that would power the event in the future. The card indicates that 10,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity are used to put on the event. I applaud

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We’re getting closer on the new retail store, but we’re still finishing some renovations on the building, waiting for the power company to turn the power on, and will be moving in this weekend. So, we anticipate being able to open the doors on Tuesday, December 9. We’ll still be getting organized, but you can see and ride our bikes and check out what we’ve got on special for your holiday shopping. See you then! share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

After a long wait, it looks like our new retail store will be open the weekend of Dec 6-7 or at latest early the following week. It will be a bit of a work in progress for the next couple weeks, but we hope to at least have the doors open on the 6th, so come on down and check us out! We’re located at 601 W. Main Street in Carrboro. For those of you who know Carrboro, this building

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Thanks to everyone who braved the rain today to try out the electric and sports utility bicycles. Johnny’s is a fun place to spend a bit of time, sipping some coffee, chatting with the owner Ben, and enjoying a Guglhupf pastry. We have one of our bikes located at Johnny’s for the next few weeks. This is a standard mountain bike, with the eZee kit and an Xtracycle Freeradical installed. Feel free to

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Demand on the electric bikes and kits has been beyond our expectations, so our stock has gotten very low. There’s nothing like being in the business of selling electric bikes…. and having not much left to sell! We have a group of the eZee kits on backorder, due to arrive now in early May, but we’ve already pre-sold most of them. If you want to get your claim on one of these, we suggest you order now. As

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