Ryan McFarland

Today the news will spread through town so i may as well post something here.  Mike Tozzo and i have been approved for a credit line to allow us to purchase the inventory and tools of Petersburg Cyclery.  We have a spot downtown picked out and the business will sell and repair bicycles and also sell bike accessories and sporting goods.  I’m going to be the silent and somewhat invisible partner so i like to go by “ninja partner”.  Mike will run the shop and be the mechanic (after he is done at the newspaper) and i’ll be in charge of purchasing, inventory, advertising, invoicing… all the administrative stuff that i can do at night and on weekends.  We think we have figured out a fair way to calculate the salaries and hopefully we’ll manage to turn a profit sooner than the third year.  We still need a name so we can get a business license and all that jazz though.  Any ideas?  We’re going along the lines of Devils Thumb Bikes and sporting goods (where “and sporting goods” is in much smaller letters) but everything from The Bike Shop to Mike’s Bikes is open for consideration.  It would be nice if we could point out that we’ll carry more than just bikes though.  Any name ideas?