Originally Posted by kai matsuda

I've had to return much more emphasis to my day job,
and am therefore dramatically scaling back the momovelo
operation. It will be returning to its original mode as
an occasional retail store and will be dropping most of
the mail order aspect.

However, I have been in touch with several other mail order houses and
am heartened to find that the vast majority of the products I sold are,
or will be available soon, through:

Wallingford
Harris Cyclery
Rivendell Bicycle Works
American Cyclery, SF
Jitensha Studio, Berkeley
Renaissance
Saint John's Cycles, UK
Bikefix, UK

In fact, I can only think of a few things that will not be available
through one of these channels. And it is for this reason, that I've made
the choice to back off -- I was not aware of it, but my presence did
little more than confuse the retail channel, and hurt these other
vendors -- and that's the last thing I want to do. Everyone struggles in
the bicycle industry, I guess -- and the niche that I'd been trying to
carve out is already crowded with folks much more deserving than I!

I will still try to have the retail shop open for special projects:
restorations, the free bicycle programme, lectures and other events...
but I will do my best to steer clear of the path forged by these other
businesses.

km