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Written by Mandy Hobby Thursday, 07 December 2006

Bike shop fits customers for healthy lifestyle

Every Saturday morning for the past two years, a kaleidoscope of red, green, yellow and black spandex fills the parking lot of Cycle Sport on Lakeline Boulevard. The 20 to 30 cyclists head out weekly on their own Tour de Cedar Park at 9 a.m. and ride 12-20 miles.

David Beverly, manager, on a Jamis mountain bike.

The cyclists have met in that parking lot longer than Cycle Sport has been open. Jennifer Stankard opened her second store in Cedar Park on Lakeline Boulevard July 1. The first location, Southwest Cycle Sport, opened two years ago on Bee Cave Road.

“I always knew I wanted to open a second store,” Stankard said. “All of the growth is happening west and I knew Cedar Park was booming, as well.”

Stankard moved to Austin three years ago with her husband and children from New Jersey to be closer to family and to return to her home state. It did not take long for her to find retail space in southwest Austin for her first store and, soon after, space in Cedar Park.

“We still have people coming in and excited we are open,” Stankard said. “Someone just came in and said they had been waiting for us to get here.”

The bike shop repairs and builds bicycles, sells clothing and accessories and also does personal bike fittings. The store carries the latest mountain and road bikes, featuring the following brands: Scott, Bianchi, Terrible One BMX, Felt and Jamis.

“At first most of our customers were the hard-core riders that seek out the newest bike shops,” David Beverly, manager, said. “But, as time has passed, we are getting more and more families. We will probably start seeing more people closer to Christmas, as well.”

Beverly began riding bikes in 1996 in order to train for riding jet skis. As he practiced more and more, he chose biking because of the amount of low impact exercise.

“I keep doing it because I can eat anything I want and not gain any weight,” Beverly said with a grin. “You can’t run as long as you can ride and burn the same amount of calories. You can ride a bike for hours.”

Beverly also worked at the original location before moving to open the Cedar Park site. He said the landlord of Cycle Sport’s space was a customer at the location on Bee Cave and offered Stankard a deal she couldn’t refuse to open up another store.

“I love helping people, especially women and children, get involved in riding,” Stankard said. “Anything I can do to help women accomplish goals and become active is enough for me. These are the things I was not able to do on Wall Street.”