Markets in Everything: Vending Bike Repair
"Say goodbye to bike shops. Minneapolis's Bike Fixtation will sell you the parts you need to get your bike back on the road, and give you the tools to make your repairs right there.
HT: Dan Greller
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Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Friday, September 09, 2011
"Say goodbye to bike shops. Minneapolis's Bike Fixtation will sell you the parts you need to get your bike back on the road, and give you the tools to make your repairs right there.
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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7 Comments:
Agreed, good idea.
So long as the bike repair stations are financially self-sustaining, ie, the vendors aren't counting on grant money from cities & counties.
Anyone with the aptitude to make repairs will probably carry tire irons, a tire patch kit and a spoke wrench. I had a kit of tools that attached under the seat when I used to ride and I had to use them by the side of the road.
Maybe entire inner tubes, or fix-a-flat foam/sealant would sell.
A rubber mallet would be useful hanging from that post. I once hit a high curb and put a serious dent in my rim and had to pound it straight.
Do you have to put a quarter in to unroll the cables to use the tools or is their use free?
How useful is it to have these things when you could break down at any distance from one? Are they every quarter mile along a busy bike commuter route?
Maybe someone will try to make a career of standing near one of these offering repair services? Talk about low overhead.
The post is ridiculous when it mentions the distance to bike shops, are these self-serve bike repair centers going to be located on every other street corner?
Any serious/regular rider carries a spare inner-tube and simple tools needed to change the inner-tube.
Locally I can see where having a few of these sorts of vending machines systems might be seasonlly useful and maybe even quite profitable...
In the St. Louis, Mo area there are extensive bike paths on both sides of the Mississippi river and many places along these paths are food vendors and B&B places...
Assuming that price of these types of vending machines systems is relatively reasonable it may well be worth path side vendors to consider investing in one of them...
"Assuming that price of these types of vending machines systems is relatively reasonable it may well be worth path side vendors to consider investing in one of them..."
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Last time I checked you don't need a vending machine to seel inner-tubes.
Hey culo maybe you should consider checking out the site to see what else is possible with that sort of vending machine set-up...
Just a thought pendejo...
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