In a tiny Florence business strip, there’s a old-fashioned coffee emporium where we can suffer a crater of coffee with still review surrounded by comfortable yellow and pale teal walls and bicycles.
Mark Ball, 53, of Walton, non-stop Velocity Bike and Bean in 2011. During high propagandize and college Ball worked during a bike emporium and always had it in his heart to some day work his own. Life called. He answered and finished adult operative in a some-more normal pursuit role. The dream, however, never left him.
“I adore a technical aspects of bikes and operative on them,” Ball said. “I suffer a plea of a mechanics and we suffer cycling as well. It’s an careful approach to have travel and it’s a plea physically.”
Ball also enjoyed coffee and suspicion it’d be good to partner with a coffee shop.
“I like a complexity of coffee from a business to a tangible bean,” he said.
The partnership with a coffee emporium didn’t vessel out, though that didn’t stop Ball. He motionless that’d he’d only open his possess coffee and bike shop. He researched his thought and saw where others existed via a U.S.
And here he sits, eleven years later, coffee grinders behind a opposite to his left and bikes unresolved from a roof behind him.
“The village here is my favorite thing about this venture,” he said. “From a commencement this has been a place of village and that’s what has drawn people in. We are welcoming to all and we make we feel during home. We get to knowledge tiny things and extraordinary things with a business from marriages to babies to business deals. Life happens here.”
Velocity Bike Bean is found during 7560 Burlington Pike in Florence.
Grab a crater while on a go
As bikers pedal to Reser Bicycle Outfitters on Monmouth Street in Newport for a repair, review or to check out new bikes, they can also sip a crater of Joe. Trailhead Coffee operates inside of Reser. Just outward a building, we can roost on your bike chair or a sofa for a rest and refreshments.
“We’re a village focused coffee shop,” pronounced Trailhead Manager Jimmy Rice, 29. of Covington. “We’re tiny and offer a some-more focused menu. We’re a good place to hang out; we’re a internal watering hole.”
Rice loves a amicable aspect of operative a coffee side of things. “You make a lot of friends,” he said.
“I also suffer a coffee. we like a whole routine of it from harsh to boiling… doing all methodically. It’s a protocol and aware approach to start a day.”
Trailhead Coffee is found inside Reser Bicycle Outfitters during 648 Monmouth Street in Newport.
Written by Melissa Reinert, RCN Contributor