Vail Daily Atricle - Monday. June 14, 2010:
EAGLE-VAIL, Colorado — Long before spandex-clad cyclists were a common sight in Vail, Bruce Kelly took up the sport.
It was the '70s. Kelly rarely saw other cyclists when he pedaled along the streets here. (Mountain bikes would not become the rage until the '80s).
One day, Kelly took his bike into a shop for repairs. He was surprised by how much it cost.
“I thought: Well, I'm going to get a book and try to do some of this stuff myself,” Kelly said.
He invested in some wrenches and a bike stand and took to fixing his bike on the porch of his rented Vail duplex. He left Vail for a while but kept riding his bike. He rode to and from classes at University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied commercial recreation from 1977 to 1979.
When he returned to Vail, Kelly's vision for opening a bike shop took shape
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