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Bratbike welcomes returning college students.
It's time for the nights to get crisper and the days a little
shorter. Soon it will be time for the students to migrate
back to Marlboro College, World Learning, and Landmark College.
We think students deserve a deal and need an excuse to get
outside to de-stress on the bike. During the month of September
all students get 20% off any one bicycle accessory and 10%
off any bicycle tune-up at Brattleboro Bicycle Shop. Just
say hi and show us your student ID.
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Rides just the same as it did 25 years ago,
only it has today's great shifting. When we first took over
the shop in 1984 we made sure always to have a touring bike
in the window because it was (and still is) the most appropriate
bike for what most people do in Vermont. Its fattish tires
won't mind dirt roads, but have smooth enough treads to roll
efficiently on pavement. The riding posture is more upright
and relaxed than sport road bike posture, but the drop bars
have five different places to put your hands to ward off fatigue.
Cool!
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A hybrid bike in more than name
We can remember the very first bike we ever saw that was
billed as a "hybrid" of road and mountain bikes.
It was a Peugeot concept bike at a bike show a little over
twenty years ago. The warehouse guys had taken a stock sport
tourer and painted it camoflage with spray cans, then put
on mountain bike handlebars and saddle. Some knobby tires
and, voilà, a hybrid. People liked it and it
started something going, but it was more marketing hook than
design breakthrough.
We will often have a customer who really wants mountain bike
toughness for an occasional ride, but plans to do lots of
20-30 mile road rides. Your typical hybrid these days is a
little too laid-back and cushy for that use. Enter the Gary
Fisher dual sport series: Kai Tai, Montare, and Utopia. These
are road bikes built around the Fisher 29er mountain bike
frame and fork, which is really 700c touring wheel size. Now
one bike really can do it all.
Disclaimer — Moutain bikes really do have better tires
and gears if you want to do lots of trail banging, and road
bikes are a LOT lighter and handle better on pavement. So
a Kai Tai doesn't take the place of those two, it does bridge
a gap between them. Check it out.
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Bike maps from Windham Regional Commission
You can now
go to our regional planning commission's web site and download
some very special maps—bicycle suitability maps, to be
exact. These are maps showing hills, shoulders, traffic volumes,
and road surfaces as they matter to cyclists.
Click
here to visit http://www.rpc.windham.vt.us/bikemap/index.htm
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parking
in Brattleboro-really!
Please note
that the town bus stop has been moved to be directly in front
of the River Garden building to provide better shelter. There
is no longer parking directly in front of our Paramount building.
For your convenience, the former bus stop in front of Candle
In The Night is now an all-day loading zone where you can
stop to load and unload your bikes.
Probably the
best parking tip in downtown Brattleboro these days is the
Harris lot behind the Gibson-Aiken Center. We usually park
here and more often than not there are 6-10 long-term spaces
open.
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Southern
Vermont's oldest continuously operating bike business
Brattleboro
Bicycle Shop is a year-round, professional sales and service
store right in the middle of Vermont's coolest downtown. We
sell and service most types of bikes and support bikes as
transportation in southern Vermont.
Our mission
is to provide the highest level of person-to-person service
for anyone who loves to ride bikes, especially those who prefer
them to cars. We depend on cars, too, but Brattleboro Bicycle
Shop believes the world will be a better place if the pendulum
swings away from cars and back towards people.
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Regular
hours (March-Labor Day)
Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sundays : 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Off Season
hours
(September-December)
Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sundays : Closed
We are sometimes open Sundays
during these months. Please call first!
Winter hours
(January and February)
Weekdays: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Sundays
and Mondays
When the weather
is really bad you should call first.. sometimes it takes us
all day to shovel out.
Please feel
free to call or e-mail us.
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We get commuting
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We are bike commuters and have been setting up commuter bikes
for people since before we came to Brattleboro 25 years ago.
Brattleboro Bicycle Shop stocks front and rear racks and
all manner of bags and baskets to go on them. We carry fenders
and lights and little clips and hardware to adapt all this
stuff to whatever your bike requires. We've been known to
fabricate brackets to make unusual things work.
Take a look at our Other
Stuff section to see some of the bike bags we carry, or
stop by the shop to browse through our counter catalogs of
things we can get for you.
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Service Gallery — Dreams
come true?
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Bratbike #1 Repaint and Rebuild |
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We like to let our thoughts linger on some
of the bikes that pass through the shop. Read about this and
other projects in our Repairs
& Service Bike Gallery.
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