After working at a Southside Lansing bike shop for three and a half years, Chad Cottom finally had the opportunity to open his own bike retail and repair shop in his dream location—Old Town Lansing.
Cottom opened Spin Street Bikes, located at 1214 Turner Street, at the beginning of May.
“Once we started shopping for spaces, it just became very obvious how friendly and tight-knit the community is, and how supportive the people here are,” Cottom says of Old Town. “When I say that, I mean the business owners and the customers.”
Cottom’s wife, Nicole Cottom, runs her photography studio, Art and Soul Photography, out of an upstairs studio.
“Business has been very good so far, largely because of the support of the people in the area,” Cottom says.
Spin Street Bikes is commuter-oriented and features road bikes and recreation bikes. Cottom has enough basement storage space to store plenty of new bikes and bikes that are in need of repair.
Source: Chad Cottom, Spin Street Bikes
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
All Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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