Closed On First Tuesdays

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You may have seen this post last month. We started this “movement” (is this the correct word for it?) from February and made stickers for the movement (or whatever it is), but I feel like we haven’t done enough explaining, so I’m just writing this to give you guys more context I guess. (It’s also kinda slow at work and I’m kinda bored so yeah…)

In the end of 2022, Natsumi and I (Shin) were talking about how the online store crew never had the chance to all get together and ride our bikes, despite being a member of a bike shop, at LUG.

This is due to our shifts being completely different from each other. If someone was off, someone had to fill in their spot…which is typically how “shifts” work.

When you look at the sales floor/mechs, they always get they’re days off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays all together, so they often get together and go for epic rides like this.

(Lovely shots by Chuyan with his iPhone)

It’s not like we were complaining or anything, but we were just talking about how nice it would be if we can plan a ride for our team or even join in the rides that the mechs often goes.

Ever since we had opened the online store, we had never stopped. Someone was always at work, handling the orders, which we are super thankful to all of you who have been shopping through our site. But we thought it would be cool if we could have time to get together, bond and clear our minds on our bicycles.

At the same time, we knew that we would bum some people out if we stop shipping our orders for a day, but after a few beers and a couple glasses of wine, we were like “fuck it, let’s talk to boss about the idea!” so we did and he was like “Sure!” and then we were like “cool.” and made the stickers so that people can remember that we will all be taking a day off on the first Tuesday of each month.

If you’re into old bikes, you probably know where the design is from.

Anyhow, there’s the little story. I apologize for any inconveniences we cause on first Tuesdays. I will end this post with the pictures of the rides we went so far.