24: Local Bike Shop Spotlight: Old Town Bike Shop

Over the past 48 years, Old Town Bike Shop, located at 426 Tejon Street, has served the Colorado Springs community not just through bike sales and service but as a business leader when it comes to environmental stewardship and giving back to community. Meet owner John Crandall and mechanic Joe Vuchetich, and find out more about this cute, historic downtown shop, its owner and why you should go.

Host: Torie Giffin,

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort Owner 

Guest: John Crandall, owner Old Town Bike Shop

Guest: Joe Vuchetich, mechanic Old Town Bike Shop

Links to show topics:

Old Town Bike Shop https://www.oldtownbikeshop.com/

Bike Clinic Too https://www.upadowna.org/support-us/bike-clinic-too/

Bike to Work Day https://coloradosprings.gov/biketowork

Catamount Institute https://www.catamountinstitute.org/

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort https://www.bicycleresort.com/

Colorado College https://www.coloradocollege.edu/

Criterium Bike Shop https://www.criterium.com/

Eddie Merckx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx

Homeward Pikes Peak https://homewardpp.org/

Koichi Nakano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi_Nakano

Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates https://medwheel.org/

Pedal Station https://kidsonbikes.net/pedal-station/

Rider and the Wolf https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4502444/

Rocky Mountain Field Institute https://www.rmfi.org/

Ted’s Bicycles https://www.tedsbicycles.com/

Trails and Open Space Coalition https://www.trailsandopenspaces.org/

YMCA https://ppymca.org/locations/downtown/downtown

Pedal the Springs is produced and presented by the Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort, the only bicycle-themed lodging and must-stay for cyclists coming to Colorado. Check us out at https://www.bicycleresort.com for more information.

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