{"id":9596,"date":"2013-09-03T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9596"},"modified":"2013-09-03T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T06:13:25","slug":"the-modern-bike-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-modern-bike-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Bike Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090213_0636_TheModernBi1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These days bike shops are more like a Starbucks than a garage writes Jen Wieczner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12% of all bike shops now have coffee bars; 11% offer spinning classes; 5% serve beer; and quite a few have full service restaurants and massage services.<\/li>\n<li>They have increasingly taken on the role of community centers with some also having periodic art exhibitions.<\/li>\n<li>Bicycle shops have had to transform because while bicycling is becoming increasingly popular in the United States, Americans are buying fewer bikes.<\/li>\n<li>Bike shops can&#8217;t even hope to make money from bicycle rentals since cities are increasingly instituting bike sharing programs.<\/li>\n<li>For the most part the barristas that make coffee don&#8217;t also fix bikes since &#8220;finding a mechanic who can make a good espresso&#8221; is difficult. Not to mention hygiene concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the couple who decided to have their wedding in a bicycle shop, where you can find them, and some projections for the future over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/bike-shops-the-new-starbucks-2013-08-29\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/bike-shops-the-new-starbucks-2013-08-29\">MarketWatch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days bike shops are more like a Starbucks than a garage writes Jen Wieczner: 12% of all bike shops now have coffee bars; 11% offer spinning classes; 5% serve beer; and quite a few have full service restaurants and massage services. They have increasingly taken on the role of community centers with some also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090213_0636_TheModernBi1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9603,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9596\/revisions\/9603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}