Since her college years at UL Megan Arceneaux has loved bicycles — she became a collector of old bikes found at garage sales and spent time rehabbing them into something worth riding again. Arceneaux became a regular customer at Johnson’s Bicycles for parts to mend her fixer-uppers and found friendship and a mentor in shop owners Ray and Johnny Johnson. The Simcoe Street business was her go-to place for all things bike and answers to the tough repair questions from Ray. (In 2008 Arceneaux and many others lost that local bike shop connection when the Johnson brothers retired.)

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