Gold Winner Cyclesmith Silver Winner The Bike Pedlar Bronze Winner Bikes by Dave Andrew Feenstra has worked at Cyclesmith since the early ’90s, longer than anyone except the company’s bookkeeper, and he still loves the job. He was there in 1995, when the founders had a falling out and sold the business to Mark Beaver […]
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Best Bike Store
Gold Winner Cyclesmith Silver Winner Bikes by Dave Inc. Bronze Winner Jack Nauss Bicycle Shop Cyclesmith has proven popular once again, being voted the Best in this category for the second year running. Selling top brands like Trek, Cannondale and Shimano—and offering repairs for your current wheels—you’ll find extremely helpful advice, great service and equally […]
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Best Bike Store
Dethroning perennial Best Bike Store winner Idealbikes took some doing. We suspect the victory was at least partly due to Cyclesmith’s sterling service, as well as the fact that the store expanded into the adjacent space in the past year, allowing much more room for cycling accessories, clothing, gear and , of course, bicycles. Readers […]
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Bike Week bike store stuff
Cyclesmith (6112 Quinpool Road, 425-1756), which is sponsoring a number of Bike Week events, is currently enjoying their new expanded showroom at the corner of Quinpool and Vernon. “Every week is Bike Week at Cyclesmith,” says co-owner Mark Beaver. Downtown at Idealbikes (1678 Barrington Street, 444-7433) they’re offering a free maintenance clinic on Wednesday, June […]
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Bikes By Dave has a new online presence
Last summer they moved to a new location on Young Street and fresh for the new year, observe the updated website for Bikes By Dave (6191 Young Street, 455-1677). With a single click we learned that there’s no tax on inventory items through the month of January, the business considers itself Halifax’s BMX headquarters and […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]