Inside B3 Bicycles — The Largest Bike Shop in New Jersey, located in Howell, NJ

Welcome to B3 Bicycles, the biggest bike store in New Jersey. Yakov, is that right? >> Absolutely. No one No one has more bikes in stock than we do. >> I see that. So guys, I'm here with Yakov Luck, good friend of mine, but I'm a good customer. Bought a few bikes from him already and I'm extremely happy. Last time he called me down was middle of the busy season in the summer. He told me, "Fran, I don't have time to do videos now because it's busy." He told me come back right before Khan because that's the best time. >> That's the Everybody always asks us when is the best time to buy a bike? When are there sales going on? This is the best time to come down and buy a bike. This is when you're going to get the best deal on a bicycle at B3 bikes. >> Also, you have private attention, >> you get more attention. But you know, if you plan, let's say, on doing bike forkai, now's the time to come by. We can we can give you more attention. We can do a good bike fit for you. We can show you all the different bikes that we have. If you want to buy a bike for your kids, now is the best time. Even though they may not fit into it till spring, but you're going to get the best deal now. And we have a big array of colors and models available to you choose for. >> Nyak of a question. Um, if I come in as a new customer, I remember when I came in, right, >> I got lost with some of the bikes. How do you start? >> So, the first thing we want to know is where you going to ride your bike? >> That's over here in Lakewood, you know. >> So, so some people are road riders. They like to ride on the road. Some people want to go to the reservoir. And so once we know what kind of bike you want to ride, then we show you the different types of bikes that would work well for you. And the most important thing that we offer is we size you properly to the right bike. If you're 6'2, we're not going to put you into a small bike because that's what we have in stock. And vice versa, if you're 4'8, we're going to get you into the right size bike so that you're comfortable because if you're comfortable, you're going to ride the bike more often. If you're not comfortable, you're going to buy the bike once, try it once, and you're never going to get back on it again. So when you start you you tell a person to go more like I know there's bikes that start from $150 and there's bikes that have like $35,000 once in your bike. They can literally pick it up with your pinky. It's so light and it's one of the strongest bikes that you have. >> Can you show me that one? I know you don't like you don't like to show it because >> No, we have delicate. I mean we have bicycles that range then these are typically road bikes. This for this is a drying TCR. This is a $7,000 carbon fiber bike with carbon fiber wheels. It weighs less than 15 lbs. It's a performance bike. It's not for everybody. It's for someone has to graduate to this level of performance that he gets a bicycle like this or a Specialized Delay or a tarmac. These are bikes for long-distance road rides. But we have less expensive versions of these bikes that you can get started with and then move your way up to this. So, if you're looking for someone less expensive, obviously we have P bikes in all price ranges. We have kids bikes starting at $150 and we we actually manufacture our own bicycles, our own brand called River and we distribute it to stores all over the United States. It's a very well-known brand already, a very high quality brand and because we're the manufacturer, we're able to give you the really give in Lakewood a really really good price on these bicycles. Another very very important part of our business is our service department. And we have really, really excellent mechanics. We stand behind every bike we sell. We warranty them with the manufacturers. We repair them. We have parts for them. >> Wow. Look at this. >> I think that's not what he meant. >> Wow. [snorts] Busted tires, chains falling down. >> We repair e scooters, ebicycles. >> Oh, really? Yeah. >> Everything. Segways. And it doesn't matter where you purchase them. We'll we'll do our best to repair whatever you bring into our store. Another very important part of our business is we have lots of accessories for bicycles. So if you want to come in and buy a gift for someone who's a bike rider, we have bike lights, mirrors, pumps, >> speed, whatever this >> pedometers, different types of locks for scooters for bicycles. We have our famous bike bag that holds your hat and your talisman fill in so you can go to yeshiva with it. We have all types of saddles so we can make you ride comfortably. Different types of tires, bike tools. We have biking shoes, spinning shoes. >> Oh, cool. And then >> maybe we should try You have all sizes shoes. >> All sizes. And we have helmets and we carry the safest helmets that have anti-concussion protection. So, we try to make every ride very, very safe for everyone. >> What's the shirts over here? >> So, we just recently became a distributor for JDM Sportware. So, this is really, really high quality sportware at a very, very good price. We also have e- scooters for little kids going up to adults. Commuter scooters that can go 30 m an hour. We have kids scooters that go slower for 19 m hour. Comfort scooters. You buy it here. We service it. We we take care of it. We help you out through the whole process. >> Yo, somebody told me and I think you have it. I think you offered also offered me. If somebody doesn't want to go full electric, but he still wants to ride but he wants something to do. It should help you like >> pedal assist. >> What is that? So, we have lots of lots of ebikes. They're getting more and more popular. What a lot of parents like about some of our ebikes is we have a pedal assist ebike. That means there's no throttle, so you can't use it as a motorcycle. But when you pedal, the motor, the engine feels how the motor actually feels how much help you need and it kicks in and it helps you ride the bike. It makes your ride more enjoyable and it could still attain some speed. Now, Yakov, I see some bikes have like thicker wheels like this one or like this one. >> And I see some bikes have literally like very thin wheels and I know the thin wheels that's so the thin wheels the way to go. >> The thin wheels are for road riders who want to go faster. There's also a segment of bicycle riding called gravel which is not too thick and not too thin or hybrid bikes. And but what's really nice about where we live, we live right next to All Air State Park and that's got some really great crosscountry mountain bike riding and so we have lots of different models of mountain bikes starting for kids. So kids could ride with their parents and we actually have classes where we'll take people out on week on Sunday mornings and we'll take you into the trails and show you the trails and teach you how to mountain bike which is a lot of fun and it's a really good sport for now because now you're in the forest it's not as cold and windy and it's something to do in the fall. It's a very good sport. Yeah, we do classes. >> I better know that. Okay. Another really nice thing that we have going over here is that a lot of people stop riding their bikes in the in the winter time because it's too cold and then it comes the spring they get back on their bike and they're out of shape and they haven't used their bike in a while. So we have these computerized bike trainers which are smart trainers and what they do is they actually mimic the terrain that you're riding. So if it's easy to if it going up a hill and it's hard to pedal, the bike trainer will make it hard easy for you to pedal and it'll mimic that and then you could be competitive with people all over the world. So you do it over here or you >> No, you you buy We sell this machine. So you can either add a machine to your bike >> and it'll be a smart trainer. >> Oh, you take you take an existing bike. >> You can take an existing bike and add different types of trainers. >> You take off the back wheels. >> Take some you have to take off the back wheels some now. We have those also. Or you can actually buy a a kicker bike. And this bike [clears throat] actually articulates and moves by itself up and down. I also wanted to show you the most one of the most exciting categories in biking today is the adventure bike with a gravel bike where the tires [clears throat] these road bikes are a little bit thicker and so you could ride them on the road but when you see an adventurous trail you can not hesitate get on the trail and ride the trail and then get back on the road and this is a very very hot segment in the market people are really enjoying gravel riding or >> why are they called gravel riding >> because you're going on gravel trails and packed gravel in the that's typical of the trails that you have around here. >> Wow. Amazing. Thank you so much. It's a for me to be with the guy that opened up the biggest uh bike store in New Jersey. >> So, Yakov, what's the phone number if someone wants to have any questions or the address? >> So, we're really we happy to answer all your questions and give you all the information you need. We're no pressure location. You come in here, we'll help you, we'll help fit you for a bike and do whatever it is to make you comfortable. So, our address is 6527 US9 North, right outside Lakewood, how New Jersey, New Jersey. And our phone number is 732-987-6267. >> And you have a website also. >> We have a website www.b3bikes.com. And a really good way to reach us with any question is mikeb3.com. >> That's an email. >> Thank you so much. Pleasure meeting you. Thank you.