MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — Inside MOAB Bicycle Shop in Murfreesboro is where you’ll find manager Xavier Solís. He’s just the man to see if you are in need of a skateboard.
“We go, ‘Hey, gravitate towards something you like,’” he said. “We have something to offer everybody.”
He was a senior at Middle Tennessee State University 18 years ago when he first began working for the shop, but his love for skateboarding began way back in grade school, a time where he begged family and friends to take him to skateparks over an hour away.
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“Skateparks were like a really big, big thing,” said Solís. “(We went) just a few times a year.”
Now that he’s older, he and others in Murfreesboro still have to travel outside the city if they want to utilize a skatepark.
“We deal with a lot of people who move into the city who have no clue about Murfreesboro and they are like, ‘You don’t have a skatepark?’” said Solís. “It’s a hundred and how many thousand people and you have a major university and you’re just like, ‘Yeah, just not right now.’”