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Suck Creek Cycle allows cyclists to park cars at the bike shop on Cherokee Boulevard to enjoy bike rides Friday evenings to the Nightfall Concert Series in downtown Chattanooga.
“We started it to give bicyclists some presence over the motorcycles,” Suck Creek Cycle owner Mike Skiles said. “What’s fun about it is getting some of the hard-core riders together without it being in a competitive event.”
This is the second year for the Bike to Nightfall event at Suck Creek Cycle. Each Friday the cyclists meet at Skiles’ business between 6 and 6:30 p.m.
Mike Skiles rides his Specialized Globe-model bicycle from his bicycle shop, Suck Creek Cycle, on Cherokee Boulevard to Nightfall every Friday night.
Skiles said they talk and hang out while waiting for everyone to arrive and prepare to leave.
“It’s not a punctual thing so much as a social thing,” Skiles said. “We encourage everyone to ride a quirky bike. We’ve had people ride tandem bikes and Stingrays.”
Skiles, who rides his 1995 Specialized Globe to work every day from Ringgold, said the cyclists take a leisurely ride along Market Street over the bridge and straight to Nightfall.
Skiles said it is also a good opportunity for riders to show local drivers they know how to follow the rules of the road.
Once everyone arrives at Nightfall, Skiles said the organized part of Bike to Nightfall ends.
Cyclists are left to enjoy Nightfall with friends for as long as they want and ride back to their vehicles when they are ready.
As a bicycle shop owner, Skiles said he isn’t sure whether or not gas prices will jump up again, but he is sure that bicycles are an economically smart commuting tool that other residents can start utilizing for fun events and gradually implement into other aspects of their lives, such as the commute to work.
“Who knows what the future holds,” Skiles said, “but I still think that a bicycle is the best blend of man and machine that humans have contrived.”
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