My shop Hiawatha Cyclery is pretty bike-commuting-focused in a bike-commuting town. Lots of our customers are car-free and only have one bike. Often, when the one-bike commuter types have a need for repair, they ask us to expedite the repair in our queue on the grounds that they're car-free and the bike is their only transportation. My mechanic Mongo fixed cars for 25 years before "retiring" as a bike mechanic. He's unfazed by the car-free argument: "you'd be surprised how many people only have one car," he says with a twinkle. Of course, we try very hard to make the repair process as seamless and quick as possible, but IMO a bike lifestyle type should have at least one fallback bike.
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