Ryan McFarland

City of Petersburg bicycle license

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On Wednesday morning before work I was dropping off some boxes at Zoom and saw this sticker on the rear fender of a bike that was in for service.

C, i put the coin and dental in coincidental.

Anyway…

I bought Quickbooks to use for the bike shop (and for my other business too) and was just setting it up and was asked this question.  Check out the sample after the third bullet.

Foster’s can on a bike

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A regular at the bike shop had his ride parked outside Zoom the other day. He had a can of Foster’s beer crammed into the water bottle holder.

Bike trailer

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Yesterday after work we whipped up a few attachments to the trailer that make it a mobile bike rental unit. It can carry 10 bikes. We attached a bin on the back for helmets. Total money spent: $0. I did spend some money on 24 feet of cable to lock the bikes with though.

We’re guaranteed to rent the 8 bikes we bought to one of the cruise ships each time they’re in Petersburg. We just need to park the trailer at the harbor each Wednesday morning and then pick it back up that afternoon. We even paid for the permit to park the trailer in the city lot.

Now I need a trailer hitch on my car (ordered one tonight) and the hitch of the trailer needs to be welded. Oh, and we’re going to build a roof over the bikes too.

Now that’s a bike shop

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A pile of repairs, six rental bikes, our retail inventory, and 8 bikes to rent to one of the cruise ships each time they’re in port. We’re full.

Zoom Bikes was burglarized

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On my way to work this morning I saw two police cars near the bike shop. I thought “maybe someone broke into Wild Celery” (the gallery around the corner from the bike shop) because there have been some recent burglaries.

Cena broke the bad news to me — that the back window of Zoom had been broken and someone took the cash and checks from the register.

Papa Bear’s Pizza was also broken into. Last week Joan Mei was. We’re a real business now! People want to steal from us!

Here’s a scan of the back of the envelope that Mike and i used to sketch out the logo ideas on Thursday evening for Zoom Bikes.  I wonder just how much business is conducted on the back of envelopes and on paper napkins in bars and restaurants.

I whipped up a logo for Zoom Bikes over the weekend. Mike and i had a business meeting on Thursday and this was one of our highest priorities. Not that we really need it for the website (which we don’t have high expectations for) but for shirts and stickers and other merchandise.