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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-06-11, Page 3Business brisk, bike shop keeps couple BY GR$GOR CAMPBELL, busy once j' busy Expo;tter Staff Bicycles are Pete and Fran have been Seaforth Bi Railway Stre four seasons.They seem t themselves an than ago of it. The shop s new bicycles, farcy modern also fixes b Equipment, su and all the lit "thingmes" ass cycling, are also Bikes have a popular around adults and fami make up more o these days, says BOUNCIN And the indus after this segmen lar, Frances po marketing suc user-friendly b for the middle-ag words comfortab the broad of bea say. Pete says new well the first year was in business, b badly last summe Frances points trend in the indu nent-wide. New are bouncing back i year, and business again brisk. The sale of used bikes the e business of didn't slow down, and the thbusttg who repair side of the local shop running the staypd busy during the ke Shop at 38 slump. et for the past MANY MAKES The bicycles manufacturers o be enjoying produce these days are a little d making more like sneakers, so many makes and models to chose from. It ells used and depends what you want to do. The gears now available are dealing in four nifty and many, and again far makes, and more user-friendly than in the usted bikes. days when you had to back ch as helmets pedal to switch them, and tle parts and only had three to chose from ociated with sold. anyway. Iway s been Pete says the bikes they sell at the shop can vary in price Seaforth but from $200 to $3,000, u lies seem to p to f the market $4,000. Customers come Pete. from all over. G BACK -Store bikes won't take the pounding," he says try nlparticu ing Two of the bike companies itis out, by the Klings deal for are things asy Canadian (Norco, Nishiki). hcyhin seats The shop also handles ed, inle seatothes Mongoose and Electra brands le for out of California. lywide,hall Balloon -style cruiser mod- m,els now available, look com- bikes .sold fortable and nostalgic, but theinology. shop also offer the modern tech- ut slumped r, which as One state -of -the art off-road style has little shock a was out out cona absorbers on both front and strybike sales back. so ifar this The BMX also seems to be bouncing back, Pete says. The Klings live in -Pumper sol The Seaforth A Department has fin aged to sell its 197 The fire area com $6,000 from the p Egmondville. He has done rea Fire many things, is licensed for ally man- both electricity and electron - 5 pumper. ics, and has driven long-haul mittee got trucks, for instance. The roceeds. Klings also ran appliance Tenders 1 of 1,210 metres, or approxi- mately 4,000 feet if all of your infrastructure money is ass'! ecito thisproject:,, The go-ahead was given for slightly more sidewalk work than this, on both sides of Goderich Street West, from West William to Adam, and on Goderich Street East from East William to at least the apartments opposite the end of Coleman Street, and further depending on whatev- er funds remain. Works superintendent Forest said there are hunks of sidewalk that are OK within the reconstruction, but con- tractors sometimes resist sav- ing portions that require them to chop up their forms. He said he doesn't know exactly how much sidewalk can be saved in the approved reconstruction, but this might cover the extra 300 or so metres without requiring more money. He said the sidewalks being done bear a lot of foot traffic. Council discussed consoli- dating reserve funds to per- haps pay for any extra, and similar projects, because it feels work sometimes needs to be done„ when the time is npe. Councillors .felt the idea had merit, and should be pur- sued and refined at future meetings. FOUND FUNDS In, connection with road construction, Forest reported the Works department "has finished building the road at the end of Duke Street at Progressive Turf. Levis Contracting started construc- tion on May 27 (approved last month when the budget was passed) on John Street and' work is progressing well." He added: "When the work was ten- dered it was based on a dollar figure for budget reasons. The tenders were way below the estimated figure so we have priced out the last block of John Street and have found it will cost approximately S40,000 to complete the street this year. In his report to council, Forrest specified the items in 1997 road and sewers, with budgeted figures against actual tenders (bracketed): Railway Street extension, $8,000 ($8,620); John Street reconstruction, $103,500 ($88,592); sanitary sewer ower than expected reconstruction $60,000 ($21,630); engineering, $13,380 (the same); and, John Street to Spading, not budgeted for (39,655). The tendered total is $171,877, still less than -the $184,880 originally budgeted. store on Seaforth's Main Street until a few years ago. Pete says he got the idea for a bicycle shop in Florida, where there arc so many of them, and they spend their winters. When thought turned to deed - they bought out a bicycle shop in West Lorne and moved the business to Seaforth, in the building they already owned (it belonged to his father and 'used to be a lumber yard). The Seaforth Bike Shop is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, from April to September. It is on Railway opposite the north end of Jarvis Street South, near the railway tracks. THS /11110.1 O NTOS, dump 11. 111117-4 'Insuring Your Business Is Our Business' • Home • Commercial • Auto • Faun • Life • Out of Province Travel Insurance Call Your Representative Today • Ken Cardno • Lynn Pletsch • Barb Watt • Joanne Williamson THURS. FRI. SAT. JUNE 12, 13 & 14th Den's Of & Friends FULL SERVICE COLLEC7YR GALLERY 7 Main Street South, Seaforth PETE AND FRANCES KLING AT BIKE SHOP Seaforth Co-operative Children's Centre di; co-oPF is excited to offer ' SWIMMING LESSONS n -- G. August 4th -15th. �� for AquaQuest 1-12 and O9�N'S CENT -4,, Aqua Parent(s) and Tots. New this year is Aqua ts. 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