Ohio City bike shop gains new customers amid record-high gas prices

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Gasoline costs in Cleveland have been just below $5 a gallon on Monday, so extra persons are dusting off their previous bike within the storage or shopping for a brand new one.

Fridrich’s Bicycles in Ohio Metropolis is seeing an uptick in prospects using bikes to keep away from paying excessive costs on the pump.

“It was very current for us,” Jane Alley, supervisor of Fridrich’s mentioned. “The climate was not on our aspect, we had a really not so good spring so it simply began when the climate broke into early summer time.”

Alley has labored on the store for 27 years. It’s been greater than a decade since she’s seen prospects anxious like this about fuel costs.

“That was about 2008 I consider when fuel went as much as round $4 and we have been promoting the whole lot to tubes to bicycles to luggage, water bottles, the whole lot so folks may commute,” Alley mentioned. “The fuel costs make a giant distinction in day by day life.”

Most of us are paying practically double for fuel than what we did months in the past.

Alley mentioned a mean bike tune up prices round $60, which is far lower than what most are paying on the pump.

Fridrich’s is ready for much more prospects whereas fuel costs seemingly gained’t go down.

“We have now been ready as a result of within the final 12 months and the 12 months earlier than with Covid we couldn’t get quite a lot of the product, so we overstocked on quite a lot of objects so we’re set,” Alley mentioned.

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