{"id":5885,"date":"2015-03-06T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankpunk.com\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2015-03-06T02:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:03:27","slug":"taiwan-local-bike-shop-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankpunk.com\/ja\/2015\/03\/06\/taiwan-local-bike-shop-extraordinaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Local Bike Shop Extraordinaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to the excellent T-Mosaic bike shop having moved location, my default LBS is now the Author Bikes shop about 4km from my house here in Taichung, Taiwan.<\/p>\n

This place is massive, and in all honesty I’d be quite happy to live here. They have three levels in the store and another two above, one that holds a meeting room and the top one an apartment. I was told that it was designed along similar lines to the Storck HQ in Europe.<\/p>\n

You may not have heard of Author Bikes, they are from the Czech Republic, and have been going for 20 years now, quite popular in Taiwan and their racing team operates out of this store too.<\/p>\n

The store has a huge sales area over two floors, and the basement houses a big mechanic area, a gym, a roller room with custom build support\/lockers. a club room, power shower and bike cleaning area. A pretty sweet set-up, though how they make their money I have no idea!<\/p>\n

A few hastily taken images here for you to get the idea.<\/p>\n

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