Bicycle Voting
Now that biking is really picking up in my town, I’m noticing something interesting. I don’t need to check Yelp much anymore.
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Conveniently located near my workplace – and on a segregated cycle/pedestrian way – we have a building with a Starbucks at one end and an independent swedish bakery/coffee place at the other. the starbucks has a cyclerack next to it, which is nearly always empty. The swedish place is always covered in bikes – locked to the nearby fence, left leaning against windows, stoodup outside etc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5992146072/ as you say, it says a lot
I remember stopping one night at Punjabi Dhaba in Inman Square and noticing everyone else in line had a helmet and a blinking light on their bag and thinking “hey, this place is a bikers’ joint!” It’s a good feeling
We have a great store in Richmond that gives you 25 cents off your bill if you rode your bike there. It’s called Elwood Thompson’s. because it’s at the intersection of Ellwood and Thompson.
A couple years ago I visited Portland, Oregon and rented a bike to get around. I had to get downtown early in the a.m. in order to get the bike and after getting off the metro I wondered whether I could easily find a place for a good cup of coffee and some food. It took about a block to experience what you just described! Bikes parked/stacked outside a little shop on an otherwise empty street. That experience repeated itself as I cycled around the city the next few days. I sampled some of the coolest restaurants, bike shops, bakeries, pubs…..fantastic!
The more bikes parked outside(that are not delivery bikes) usually mean a place for cheap eats good beer and chill atmoshphere. It works when you know what ur looking at!