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Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Very Long Wait  

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David Longdon
 David Longdon
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Topic starter May 18, 2020 3:04 pm  

The United States is facing a shortage of bicycles as anxiety over public transportation and a desire to exercise has sent demand surging.

Some bicycle shops in Brooklyn are selling twice as many bikes as usual and drawing blocklong lines of customers. A chain of shops in Phoenix is selling three times the number of bikes it typically does. A retailer in Washington, D.C., sold all its entry-level bikes by the end of April and has fielded more preorders than ever in its 50-year history.

As the coronavirus pandemic shrinks life in major American cities — limiting pastimes and discouraging use of buses and subways — hundreds of thousands of Americans are flocking to one of the most basic forms of mobility: the bicycle.


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