Texas Biking News April 18th 2020
Bike business is booming during pandemic
By Baylee Bates | www.kten.com
SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) — Charlie Jenkins and his wife have been in the cycling business for 15 years. They own Texoma Bicycle Works in Sherman.
Recently they’ve been busy, something he hasn’t typically seen this early in the year. Jenkins said COVID-19 is actually helping his sales.
"Our customers come in, they’re happy, they’re looking for something to enhance their fitness or something to have fun with, or …
Austin retailers get creative ahead of reopening with to-go order approach
by Jordan Bontke | cbsaustin.com
One of the executive orders issued by Governor Greg Abbott on Friday allows retail businesses to open starting next Friday, April 24th, on a to-go basis. Some Austin stores have already adjusted their operations to stay open while others are getting creative to reach their customers. …
… At Bicycle Sport Shop on South Lamar, CEO Hill Abell considers himself grateful to be open with so many stores closed around him. “We are just being inundated with people pulling their bicycles out of the garage because they haven’t ridden them in a decade,†said Abell. …
Frederic Chopin’s Classical Music: The Soundtrack to My Bike Ride
A DUDE ABIKES | adudeabikes.com
Before you read this, if you can, put on your favorite streaming service, CD or album (or imagine) something by Frédéric Chopin. Something like Nocturne No.2 In E Flat, Op. 9 No. 2 performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy from Chopin: Favourite Piano Works. Because that’s what I’m listening to as I write this, and the music seems perfectly suited to my ride and state of mind. Given that it was a grey Friday evening in Austin, Texas after some light rain had fallen, and the pandemic stay at home order, traffic was extremely light.
The surreal experience of biking down Austin’s main street, Congress Avenue, with …