When Aurora comes to mind, many people may not think of cycling, but the city actually has a great bike infrastructure with hundreds of miles of bike trails. What they don’t have are many local shops to fix up or tune up a bike when needed.
There are only a handful of bike shops in the city, and it may lose another soon. Hardt Family Cyclery at 10255 E 25th Ave in Aurora may have to close due to struggles with online competition, bureaucracy, and repeated break-ins.
On Friday, a young family stopped by the shop looking for a minor repair on a child’s bike. It’s moments like this that inspired Mackenzie Hardt to open his business six years ago. Hardt says he’s happy to help them…