The Car Store

The next time you bring your car in for an oil change or service at The Car

Store you can ride off on a 24-speed Trek bicycle. We purchased two of the

bicycles (along with a couple of helmets) from Omer & Bob's Sports Shop in

Hanover, N.H., last spring and have been offering them as greener and

healthier alternative to "loaner" cars.  "As long as your car is here for service

you can have the bike," explains TomBrouillet, our parts and service director.
 
"All you need is to be 18, have a credit card, ID and sign some paperwork

and that's it. Everybody is going green these days and the bikes are another

part of our continuing effort to encourage not only ourselves but also our

customers to see the need to go and be green. And it's just plain fun."

Tom brought the idea east after learning about it from a dealer in Montana

during a Subaru meeting last February. "The reaction has been great," he

said. "There was one time I saw a customer just standing there looking at the

bikes in the rack and I asked, "Do you want to use one?" He said he was only here to have something

small done but I told him if he wanted to run a short errand or to get some exercise,

it would only take a second to fill out the paperwork and off he went."