Originally Posted by
Robert Foster
Are you assuming people open bike shops to encourage people to ride? To impart your knowledge? For you that might work for others it might be simply because it allows them access to something the love and freedom for others setting their schedual. If it was simply to make all the money they could opening a bike shop seems like a bad idea.
Again, I ask -- WHY open a bike shop at all? If all you want to do is live with bikes, then get a higher-paying job to work in the daytime and spend your evenings snuggled up with a dozen bikes in your basement.
Having a shop means being out among the public. There
has to be a purpose for making yourself publicly accessible. You can't be a chain lube-covered hermit and run a shop.