One on One Bike Shop

Just before the Christmas shutdown at work, 3 co-workers and I visited this bike shop in downtown Minneapolis for lunch. We went to see the photos of Caroline Yang who is a local shooter that has been to the Tour de France for the last few years. Her work is really terrific. There is something about her colors that explode off the page. I hope to talk to her someday and see what she is doing in post because she must have a color recipe.

As if the photo shop wasn't enough, I was told before hand that I must see the basement of these place. You see, this location has had a few different shops but they have all had some kind of bicycle interest. As such they have collected a huge mass of bikes. There must be thousands of them just stacked on top of each other up to the ceiling. As you can see from a few of the photos I have.

My absolute favorite bike in the pile was an old kids bike with the banana seat and the monkey hanger handlebars. There were a million of them in the 70s. Well this particular one had a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer theme! I couldn't get a good photo of it because it was buried but you can see the embroidered seat. It also had a big metal plate with the logo between the top and down tube. It must had been some kind of company promotion. But to kids? What's up with that? If it wasn't $300 I would have bought it.