ELKO—On one side of the lot, they sell bicycles and run a bike shop. On the other side of the lot, they sell sheds.
Bikes and sheds on display at the T-Rix Bikes store in Elko, Oct. 22, 2024.
Alex Shroyer, site manager for T-Rix Bikes and Old Hickory Sheds on Idaho Street, explained how he balances customer service tasks and mechanical duties. “It’s pretty easy to handle both of them because neither one of them are too overwhelming,” he said.
“With the biking stuff, we do complete tuneups, replace tires and tubes. We fix broken bikes, lube up chains, replace chains and replace brakes,” he explained. “When it comes to the sheds, we try to make as good of a deal as we can for everybody around the area. But realistically, with the sheds, it’s just trying to get people places to put their belongings that they don’t want out in the weather or crammed up in their attic.”
“The bike stuff is generally busier in the summertime. The shed stuff is generally busier in the wintertime. Realistically, I’ll just boil them down to, when it gets too busy, we bring in extra help. One person will focus directly on sheds, the other person will focus directly on pipes. Myself being the manager, my responsibility is to keep up with both of them and help out either side, with whoever needs it.”
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Recently, T-Rix Bikes has worked on a complete refabrication of the outside of their building, including a new paint job and replacement of broken parts, Shroyer noted.
“I’ve been over here at the bike shop for four months now. The only reason I came over here was because the owner,” Jeremyah Lomax, “had to pull me from one of the other businesses that I was working for him to fill in a position here after we had a person quit on us,” he said. “I love my job.”
Shroyer said his favorite part is “getting to meet all the people in the community and hear some awesome stories.”
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