Via: BikeBiz.com

Following yesterday’s terrorist attacks on London’s transport network, IBDs and cycle hire shops reported brisk trade as Londoners attempted to get across a city all but closed to cars and with no tube trains running and a bus service not operating in zone 1 of central London. But there was no profiteering from bike shops. Some hotels, on the other hand, tripled their prices within hours of the bomb blasts…

“We’ve sold a hell of a lot of bikes today,” the manager of one of the Evans Cycles stores in central London told a press agency reporter.

“People are coming in and buying bikes because they can’t get home today.”

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