People often are shocked these days when they saunter into bicycle shops expecting to see â you know â bikes.
Cycling shops and big-box stores across NWI and the nation no longer have showrooms filled with new mountain bikes, road bikes and kids bikes. The racks are largely bare, the selection sparse.
"We're got some kids bikes, some cruisers," said Kurt Agner with Ridge Cyclery at 3731 Ridge Road in Highland. "But nothing's available. That's just how the market is right now. They can't produce them, and I've read where the freight has quadrupled so they're not shipping them. We've had to turn away people looking for bikes since last year."