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Amid Black Friday sales, retailers are still dealing with inflation

by Sean McHenry
Nov 23, 2022
From records to chocolate to bicycles, three small businesses describe how they're doing ahead of Black Friday.
As shoppers flock to stores this Black Friday, small businesses are still weighing how to handle rising prices.
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Why one bike maker is struggling to meet pandemic demand

by Minju Park
Jun 9, 2021
As supply chain shortages back up orders of parts and raw materials, bike manufacturers are struggling to keep up with surging demand.
"Compared to normal years, we were seeing two to three times more site traffic and purchases across the board," said Mehdi Farsi, co-founder of State Bicycle Co. in Phoenix.
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Can a better-designed bike helmet make people safer on the road?

by Adriene Hill and Robert Garrova
Jul 19, 2017
Gloria Hwang, the founder and CEO of helmet company Thousand, thinks so.
Photo Courtesy Thousand
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New app aims to improve cycling in Portland

by Marketplace Contributor
Jul 23, 2015
Data will help plan for safer riding infrastructure, like signals and routes.
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Biking has taken off in New York

by Tony Wagner
May 11, 2015
The number of cyclists tripled in the past decade.
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Priority Bicycle's quest to build a better bike

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 24, 2015
Why Dave Weiner left a technology career to reinvent the bicycle.
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Los Angeles hosts a 10-mile-long block party

by Eve Troeh
Apr 16, 2012
CicLAvia, an event that brought 100,000 people out on their bikes, got people to linger where they usually don't.
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Techies on the cutting edge... of bike commuting

by Andrea Bernstein
Feb 22, 2012
Biking to work has become part of the culture for many tech companies.
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Dude, where's my bike?

by Kai Ryssdal
Jan 27, 2012
Journalist Patrick Symmes had a bicycle. Then it got stolen. So he got another bike, and that got stolen, too. He discusses his journey delving into the underground economy of stolen bikes.
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RNC: View from the bike lane (Part II)

by Janne K. Flisrand
Sep 3, 2008
Monday, I started out at 9 am to see how the freewheel!n borrow-a-bike-free program was working....
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