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The five-year sticker
On the warranty sticker and the service booklet: the paper promises a shop made on the bicycles it sold, and what the promises were worth.
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the bike shop as an institution, its tills and its talk
Cards on this rail
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The specials board
On the chalkboard of weekly offers outside the door: the shop's cheapest advertising, and the small mathematics of the marked-down bicycle.
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The service bell
On the brass bell on the shop counter: the smallest sound in the building, and the entire etiquette of the counter in one ring.