Recyclistas Bike Shop

 Recyclistas has used parts like bars, wheels, frames, tires, tubes and more. The owner has been buliding vintage road bikes for 15+ years. They can help you customize a bike to your liking for $450-650. Some vintage mountain bike stuff to be found from time to time. Staff are mostly friendly and helpful. Fun stuff in the junkyard and basement (when you can poke around, hopefully again soon)

 Went there today at 2:30pm. My three-year-old daughter was with me. We were first in line - the girl there told us we couldn't come in because there was a customer already in the store; CoViD protocols, so I totally get it. I told her that I was looking for a half-link. She then went to the people behind me (#2 and #3 in line) and asked what they needed; they needed a repair, so she checked in their bike. She then went to #4 and #5 in line and asked what they needed; they told her and she went inside and got what they were looking for. When she came back I asked her "can you at least check to see if you have half-links?", since she had helped these people who came 10-15 minutes after me, but made no effort to find out if they even had what I was looking for. After my baby daughter and I waited in the heat outside, the guy who was looking at the same two helmets for 25 minutes finally left without buying anything. We could finally go in. But, as soon as we went inside, all of a sudden the next two groups of people behind us, #6 and #7 (together) and #8 just got to come inside while we were in there. In fact, while I waited to pay, the two employees there helped #6 #7 and #8, even though we had waited 30+ minutes in the heat, and #6 and #7 had waited less than 4 minutes and #8 had just showed up. Eventually, after helping all seven of these people that came AFTER me, one of the employees finally came over and completed my purchase. When I asked why they helped all of those other people who came after me, none of the three employees now present could provide an explanation. When I asked why we couldn't come in when one other person was there; but three other people, who arrived after me, could not only come in while we were in there, but they were served before us. One of them said something about it being a mistake, another mumbled something about staff shortages - neither explaining why my daughter and I were subjected to a stricter standard that everyone else there. They were hyper-vigilant about making sure we didn't go in when someone else is there, but gave everyone else free reign. I do not understand this double-standard, where my baby daughter and I were treated like garbage, left outside in the heat, while everyone after us received service before we did. I do not know what the source of their discriminatory behaviour was toward us; maybe they have something against family people, or children, or because today we came in a car instead of on a bike. I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't treat us like garbage out of some personal animus toward me or my daughter, and it better not be due to the fact that my daughter is of mixed ethnicity. I have been a regular customer, but I'm never shopping again at a store that treats me, and especially my little baby girl, like garbage; while giving preferential treatment to other people in front of her. I hope she is too young to feel the impact of this behaviour.