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  • Robert Johnston, right, one of the co-owners of Pedal Hard Bike and Clothing Boutique chats with customers outside the Midtown store on T Street on Thursday, July 26. Pedal Hard is a bicycling and clothing store specializing in single-speed and fixed-gear bikes and accessories.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Customers chat with store employee, Corey Browning, at the Pedal Hard bike store in Midtown. Pedal Hard is a bicycling and clothing store specializing in single-speed and fixed-gear bikes and accessories.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • A variety of symbols decorate the handlebar tape on a pair of handlebars of a bicycle in the Pedal Hard bike shop on T Street.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • A fixed-gear cyclist sports a tattoo on his calf outside the Pedal Hard bike shop.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • A fixed-gear bicyclist balances on his pedals. A fixed-gear bike has one gear on the hub of the rear wheel in place of the more common free wheel that comes with most multi-geared bikes.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • A fixie-rider heads down the sidewalk in front of Pedal Hard Bike and Clothing Boutique on T Street in Sacramento.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • The interior of the Pedal Hard bike shop on T Street in Sacramento.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • A pedestrian walks past the front window of the Pedal Hard bike shop on T Street in Sacramento on Tuesday, July 25, 2012. Bicycle chain rings adorn the front window of the shop which caters mostly to the fixed-gear cycling crowd.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Edible Pedal owner John Boyer, right, works with mechanic Linus Platt on a single speed bicycle at the Edible Pedal shop at 1712 L Street in Sacramento on Friday morning, August 3.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Zach Waddle, general manager of Bicycle Business works on a bicycle in the shop at the Freeport Avenue business Saturday morning, August 4.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Zach Waddle helps a customer in the Bicycle Business shop on Freeport Avenue on Saturday morning, August 4.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Sacramento bike messenger Miles Zollner unlocks his bicycle outside Sacramento County Superior court on Thursday, August 2, as he leaves the courthouse enroute to deliver documents.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Sacramento bike messenger Miles Zollner heads off on his bicycle outside Sacramento County Superior court on Thursday, August 2, as he leaves the courthouse enroute to deliver documents.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com
  • Bicycle messenger Miles Zollner leaves 621 Capitol Mall after completing a delivery on Friday afternoon, August 3, 2012.
    Tim Reese | treese@sacbee.com

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