TwinCities.com:

You’ve heard of biker bars, right? How about bike coffee shops?

The bike coffee shop is just like a biker bar, except instead of beer, there are cappuccinos, and instead of Harleys, there are Surlys.

These bicycle culture hangouts are devoted to the philosophy of four wheels bad, two wheels good, and caffeine is better.

The concept got its start in the Twin Cities a few years ago with the opening of the One on One Bicycle Studio in the Minneapolis Warehouse District, where you can sip a cuppa, buy a bike, look at art and scavenge for used parts in a space that formerly housed a massage parlor.

Then a few weeks ago, the Cars-R-Coffins Coffee Bar opened in South Minneapolis. That’s enough for us to declare a trend in the making. It’s why we pedaled across the river recently to find out how the coffee tastes in a café geared for gearheads.

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