Halifax Bike Company

Bicycles will soon be manufactured in Halifax. Entrepreneur John Wesley Chisholm and partner Roger Nelson, who have been operating Halifax Cycle Gallery (6299 Quinpool Road, 407-4222) for about a year, are about to embark on their next enterprise, Halifax Bicycle Company. The pair plan to get the new factory up and running this summer, produce a few models for trade shows in the fall, and then be fully operational in 2012, making 1,000 bikes a year. Chisholm invited me over to the Cycle Gallery Friday; he’s pictured below with the prototype of what he dubs as the “Halifax city bike”: