Looks like this is a trend we’ll keep seeing expand. Just as we saw Velofix expand into more USA and Canadian markets, now Beeline Bikes has let us know about their growing territory as well in the western US. Their first franchise owned and operated mobile shop, outside of their home LA market, hit the streets fixing bikes in the East Bay area of San Fransisco in late 2015. And now they’ve trained and outfitted Brad Levan, the new owner of the next shop-in-a-van headed to Phoenix, AZ who’s already taking appointments from next week. Check out where they are headed next after the jump…
Levan actually already runs two brick-and-mortar shops in Phoenix, and actually has 6 mobile shops in the works to reach even more Arizona customers. So now you can find Beeline in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. We’re told that soon after that will be followed by their vans prowling the streets of Denver and Boulder, Colorado as well as more coverage in California in the Marin, Napa, and Sonoma areas. Beeline’s co-founder Pete Buhl seems pretty excited that not only has there been interest from bike customers, but the franchise operators are jumping on the idea too, and several are planning to run more than one mobile shop so they can serve a broader area than just one city.
Looks like mobile bike shop access will be coming soon to a lot of our North American readers!
