{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/my-improbable-journey-to-bike-shop-life\/#Article","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/my-improbable-journey-to-bike-shop-life\/","headline":"My Improbable Journey To Bike Shop Life","name":"My Improbable Journey To Bike Shop Life","description":"If you told me a little more than a decade ago that I would become the assistant manager of a local bicycle shop, I would have laughed, rolled my eyes and said \u201cYeah, right.\u201d Why? Because at sixteen years old, I still didn\u2019t know how to ride a bike. Sure, I\u2019d tried. My dad had … Continued<\/a>","datePublished":"2022-06-09","dateModified":"2023-05-31","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/author\/grant-roser\/#Person","name":"Grant Roser","url":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/author\/grant-roser\/","identifier":4,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5e38166a160c0e61c8e18436f6ff5be9a99ccc7961825b7cccc6ed0dd99f059?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5e38166a160c0e61c8e18436f6ff5be9a99ccc7961825b7cccc6ed0dd99f059?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"London Plumbing Solutions","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/London-Plumbing-Solutions-plumbers-drain-cleaning-services-logo-sm.png","url":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/London-Plumbing-Solutions-plumbers-drain-cleaning-services-logo-sm.png","width":168,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.png","url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image.png","height":1866,"width":1866},"url":"https:\/\/londonplumbingsolutions.com\/my-improbable-journey-to-bike-shop-life\/","about":["Local News"],"wordCount":374,"articleBody":"If you told me a little more than a decade ago that I would become the assistant manager of a local bicycle shop, I would have laughed, rolled my eyes and said \u201cYeah, right.\u201dWhy? Because at sixteen years old, I still didn\u2019t know how to ride a bike. Sure, I\u2019d tried. My dad had given six, seven, and eight year old me lots of encouragement and tips for how to ride without my training wheels, but I never got the hang of it and quickly gave up. It wasn\u2019t until high school that somehow my friends compelled me to let them teach me and I wobbled down my residential street absolutely mortified \u2014 but I finally got the hang of it.Once I\u2019d learned to ride my bike (a \u201cvintage\u201d mountain bike from the \u201890s), I tried to ride to my Starbucks shifts that began before the buses started running. I would inevitably arrive home in tears, either frustrated at my inability to handle the steep hills on the TVP or from the threats I received from drivers when I tried to \u201cshare the road\u201d. Riding a bike to get around didn\u2019t seem possible for me at that time, either.\u00a0Maybe you could credit my rediscovery of the bicycle to my first child, who fell in love with a beautiful wooden bakfiets she saw at the store where I now spend my days. It was due to her curiosity that our family eventually chose an e-trike to get around with our kids. Our trike arrived around the same time as the pandemic\u2019s first wave, and that year created more opportunities for us to ride together than we\u2019d ever imagined. Our trike was the safest way to get outside and get exercise with the girls during this difficult time, and the electric assist meant we could go farther, and do more on a bike every day. Between riding to parks all over the city, and seeing the incredulous faces of curbside grocery store staff in awe of how much food fit in the box of my bike, we certainly made the most out of it. It was part of my parenting journey that will always be with me."}