No gas? No problem: Bicycle sales, interest on the rise locally

The Bike Project's warehouse may look like the place where bicycles come to die, but really, it's just the opposite: This is where bicycles are reborn.

And, as gas prices rise and word of mouth gets out about the warehouselike space in the basement of Urbana's Independent Media Center, more and more bicycles are coming and going as more people join the cooperative or just pedal by to work on an off-kilter wheel or get a replacement part.

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