The next time you bring your car in for an oil change or service at The Car Store you can ride off on a 24-speed Trek bicycle. We purchased two of the bicycles (along with a couple of helmets) from Omer & Bob’s Sports Shop in Hanover, N.H., last spring and have been offering them as greener and healthier alternative to “loaner” cars. “As long as your car is here for service you can have the bike,” explains Tom Brouillet, our parts and service director.
“All you need is to be 18, have a credit card, ID and sign some paperwork and that’s it. Everybody is going green these days and the bikes are another part of our continuing effort to encourage not only ourselves but also our customers to see the need to go and be green. And it’s just plain fun. ”Tom brought the idea east after learning about it from a dealer in Montana during a Subaru meeting last February. “The reaction has been great,” he said. “There was one time I saw a customer just standing there looking at the bikes in the rack and I asked, Do you want to use one? He said he was only here to have something small done but I told him if he wanted to run a short errand or to get some exercise, it would only take a second to fill out the paperwork and off he went.”
Email Tom, tbrouillet@thecarstore-vt.com for the details
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