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withered_preacher
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WheelWorks. In the oughts our smaller shop, Ace was the busiest bike shop in the US per square ft. We also had a rotating staff with Fat City/Indy Fab/Merlin/Seven.
Harris is weird, it’s a pretty small shop that’s famous for someone who was a pretty shitty mechanic. Sheldon had almost encyclopedic knowledge of useless bike bits, but you’d never want to give him a wrench. They were pretty big with the Randonerds due to another mechanic, Elton Pope-Lance.
PS if it sounds like I’m shitting on Sheldon I’m not. He was funny, caring and nice. There’s just this legendary mechanic thing attached to him that’s not true. He was more of I dunno, a bike archivist?