Eki Cyclery pedals off into the sunset after 109 years in business: After over a century of outfitting generations of kids with their first bicycles, recreational riders and commuters on two wheels, Eki Cyclery is closing at the end of March.

Some of them are very shocked, saying: I can’t believe you’re closing, let me take over!” But they won’t be putting the company up for sale — “I don’t want to sell the Eki name, that’s the whole value in the business, the name.”

Nice to hear.

Mahalo!

So many places I know are gone these days, man, feeling sad