Online shopping site Pedalr provides a community for selling handmade bike parts and accessories.
Online shopping site Pedalr provides a community for selling handmade bike parts and accessories.
So far the Etsy-like site features nine Oregon sellers.
Pedalr co-founder James Hayden says he and his team started the site because, “We felt that Craigslist and eBay weren’t cutting it for the biking community so wanted to create something bikers could call their own.” Portland has a large crop of small, bike product manufacturers and artisans.
Rachel Dominguez-Benner makes a variety of hand-sewn bike accessories under the Bike Cozy banner. She said it just “made complete sense” for her to try a site where “the common denominator is ‘bikes’.” She reports just a few sales so far but thinks Pedalr has a lot of potential if they are able to combine the best features of eBay, Etsy, and Craigslist.
Read more at BikePortland.org.
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