Post and photo by the Hawthorne Hawkman.
Have you ever been in the parking lot between Emerson and Fremont and behind the Avenue Eatery, and noticed an open garage door with bicycles practically spilling out of the building? If you've wondered what was going on there, well wonder no more. That would be J.B. Hood Bikes, NoMi's first (at least in a long time) privately owned and operated bike shop. One of its proprietors, Jon Nygren, introduced himself to me at the Mayor's bike tour of NoMi.
We met again at a bike planning meeting this week, where I was the first recipient of one of his new business ideas...