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About
us
Brattleboro
Bicycle Shop began life in the late 1940s as a few bikes in
a Western Auto dealership called Red Circle, Inc., at 60 Elliot
Street. By the 1960s it had become a Schwinn shop, but decided
to switch to Raleigh as the main brand by the bike boom years
of the early 1970s. We still have the sales records back to
1972, and occasionally see these bikes back for repairs!
Current
owners Tim Chock and Barbara Walsh closed up their first shop
(the Bicycle Workshop in Rochester, NY, if anyone wants to
know) and relocated to wonderful Brattleboro to take over
here back in 1983. At that time it was decided that the bike
shop would serve its customers better if it were separated
from the other operations of Red Circle. We took the name
Brattleboro Bicycle Shop because there wasn't another bicycle
business within 50 miles called "bicycle shop",
and we dared to be different.
Bicycles
are the focal point of our lives. In addition to the regular
job of running a shop, we've lobbied the town and the county
to include bike facilities in planning efforts, helped start
the Rec department's Super Bike Day, and coached a high school
cycling club. This last is one of our proudest accomplishments:
we had a state junior time trial champion, the winner of the
Fitchburg Mini Classic junior stage race (who went on to finish
in the top 20 at the Mt. Washington Hill Climb a few years
later), and a kid who got invited to the Olympic Training
Center. Several of "our kids" have hosted their
own events and are raising another generation of riders.
Located
since 1999 in the historic Paramount theater building, we
now have a 3200 square foot store stocked with bikes, parts,
cycling clothing and shoes. We can perform most repairs in-house,
including custom wheelbuilding and frame alignment. For more
on repairs and service, please follow the link at the top
of this page. Please drop by and share our enthusiasm for
a better bicycle world.
"Don't
sweat the small stuff, and ride the bike."
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