MONTEREY, Calif. (BRAIN) – CycleCafe, a convenience store-within-a-store that offers coffee and related merchandise within specialty stores, has opened its first location. in the US, which is in Boulder, Colorado.
CycleCafe representatives will be at the Sea Otter Classic expo this week, sharing some space with Wahoo Fitness in booth A100.
CycleCafe has locations in Germany; Austria; Mallorca, Spain; and the Canary Islands.
The Boulder location is inside Larry’s Bootfitting, a ski boot fitting retailer. Larry’s is co-owned by former Spot Brand and Gates Corporation engineer Todd Hoffmann and his wife. Hoffman is a longtime acquaintance of Thorsten Frahm, who developed the CycleCafe concept in Europe.
Hoffmann said, “I loved the idea of CycleCafe from the beginning and I wanted to bring that to the U.S. We were looking for the next step – and our summer business and cyclists are a perfect match on skis , snowboard and Nordic from winter.”