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Bicycling means good business. Becoming a bicycle-friendly business is good for sales and good for the health and well-being of your employees. Recently, A-1 Cycling in Manassas applied for and was awarded a \u201cBike Friendly Business\u201d designation by the League of American Bicyclists, the first such bicycle-friendly business in Prince William County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[63,61,62,65,64],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike-friendly-businesses","tag-bike-friendly","tag-bike-shops","tag-businesses","tag-lab","tag-league-of-american-bicyclists","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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to Sean Christian, the store manager, this has helped to create a presence in the community. Things have gone very well for the store in the past year but the employees wanted to create a benchmark, or rally point, to stand behind and improve upon. Ben Williams, repair manager, life-long cyclist and Prince William County native, says that one of the goals for the store has been to increase the store’s outreach in to the community. \u201cIt can be done\u00a0through group classes, local group rides, helping the young r![\"A1-cycling\"](\"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/A1-cycling-300x199.jpg\")
iders that come in to the shop and through social media.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"IMG_0554\"](\"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0554-300x225.jpg\")
e Bronze Level, which\u00a0says that the shop is off to a good start, but has\u00a0room for improvement in the future.<\/p>\n