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Remember when you learned to ride a bike? George Turner, 48, owner of Penuel Bicycles in Inglewood, Cali\u00adfornia, talks with reverence about his childhood BMX dirt bike. \u201cIt was free\u00addom,\u201d he says. \u201cI did whatever it took to get on that bike, as long as I was home by dark.\u201d George and his friends rode to the beach, the mall and construction sites, where they wedged through fences and dared one another to ride over huge dirt mounds and other obstacles.<\/p>\n

Home meant chores, homework, annoying siblings, dressing up for church. A bike meant escape.<\/p>\n

George transformed that reverence into a livelihood. He opened his neigh\u00adborhood bicycle shop<\/a> in 2010. Before that, he had worked for years slinging boxes for FedEx while selling bike gear and accessories online.<\/p>\n

The store fulfilled a lifelong dream. George named it Penuel Bicycles be\u00adcause Penuel is the name of the place where Jacob wrestles with the angel in the book of Genesis. George had been wrestling over his future. Spend the rest of his life working for someone else? Or pursue his true love?<\/p>\n

Many people harness their passion and start a business. Roughly 60 per\u00adcent of those businesses close after less than a decade, according to the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n

Ten years after opening his shop, George feared he was about to join that 60 percent. Penuel, it turned out, was the place where George struggled after <\/em>he opened his business. It was also where he learned about God\u2019s business: redemption <\/a>of what seems irretrievably broken.<\/p>\n

Penuel Bicycles is a one-room shop on a busy commercial strip some 10 miles from Hollywood but a world away from the limelight. There are rows of bikes as well as parts and gear for sale, plus a small repair area be\u00adhind the counter.<\/p>\n

Inglewood is a working-class city with a diverse population. Historical\u00adly, the city was a center of L.A.\u2019s Black community. Today nearly a third of residents were born outside the Unit\u00aded States<\/a>, and half speak a language other than English at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cBicycles kept me out of trouble,\u201d George remembers. \u201cThey were part of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

He figured that was still true for kids when he opened Penuel. Growing up, George had worked at a bike shop on weekends so he could afford accesso\u00adries for his own bike.<\/p>\n

As an adult, he rode racing and mountain bikes up and down L.A. County\u2019s 22-mile beach bike path and on nearby hill trails. After marrying 15 years ago, he taught his three kids to ride bikes.<\/p>\n

George opened Penuel expect\u00ading parents to crowd inside, eager to buy shiny new bikes for their kids. He looked forward to helping boys and girls discover the joy of riding\u2014and stay out of trouble\u2014just as he had. He dreamed of a com\u00admunity gathering place where people could meet for rides<\/a> and embrace a healthy outdoor lifestyle.<\/p>\n

None of that happened.<\/p>\n

Kids these days, George learned, have a new love. \u201cKids don\u2019t want a bike for Christmas and their birth\u00adday,\u201d he says. \u201cNow life is about play\u00ading video games or with their phone. Instead of getting out and riding, they have the electronic babysitter<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

When kids don\u2019t ride, their parents tend not to ride. Also, many riders in George\u2019s part of Los Angeles commute to jobs at restaurants or warehouses on used bikes. They might come to the shop for repairs but not to buy a brand-new bike.<\/p>\n

A low point came one day when George visited his son\u2019s elementary school to give a demonstration about bicycle basics. He asked students how many of them owned a bike. One boy raised his hand: George\u2019s son. \u201cThey put him in the school newspaper be\u00adcause he knew how to ride a bike,\u201d George says.<\/p>\n

Bike shops in wealthier neighbor\u00adhoods rely on customers willing to spend thousands of dollars on a high-end racing bike. Other stores join chains that are owned by big-budget bicycle manufacturers.<\/p>\n

George struggled. Some days, he celebrated if he sold just one bike. At the end of 2019, he asked his pastor to pray for him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pastor gave George a searching look. Then he said, \u201cGod is going to bless your business<\/a> in ways that you would never have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

George was too polite to disagree. But\u2014really? His pastor knew noth\u00ading about the bicycle business. \u201cI was thinking I might have to close this thing up,\u201d George says. \u201cIt was not going well at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three months later, the coronavi\u00adrus pandemic shut down the nation. George closed Penuel\u2019s doors, put his few employees on hiatus and went home to hunker down.<\/p>\n

Bless my business? <\/em>he wondered.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, he learned that bicycle shops had been classified as essential businesses. Restless at home, he reopened the shop<\/a> in hopes he might at least get some repair work.<\/p>\n

One day, a man walked into the shop. \u201cI\u2019m looking for a bike,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll pay cash.\u201d He picked out the most expensive bike in the store and put $8,900 on the counter.<\/p>\n

Stunned, George hurried to the ATM to deposit the money. He used it to pay that month\u2019s rent.<\/p>\n

The phone started ringing. \u201cDo you have any bikes left? I\u2019m in Beverly Hills. I\u2019ll drive there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isolated at home and desperate for something to do, pandemic-weary Americans were buying bicycles<\/a>. Bike shops nationwide sold out. Many cus\u00adtomers searching for out-of-the-way stores found Penuel.<\/p>\n

People in his neighborhood pulled their old bikes out of the garage or the basement and wheeled them to Penu\u00adel to get repaired and ready to ride. \u201cI had to wear long sleeves to work on those bikes,\u201d George recalls. \u201cThey had spiders!\u201d<\/p>\n

George sold out of bicycles in a month. He ordered what he could to meet customer demand and turned to fixing and tuning up all the bikes that people suddenly were riding. \u201cI went from repairing one bike a day to repairing 30 bikes,\u201d George says. Many days, he worked from 4:30 a.m. to midnight.<\/p>\n

Out on his own bike, George saw riders everywhere. Suddenly his long-cherished vision of a community on their bikes, enjoying the freedom of two wheels, was coming true. Bicycles became a rare source of solace<\/a> during a time of tragedy and loss.<\/p>\n

God didn\u2019t just bless George\u2019s shop. He made Penuel Bicycles a truly essen\u00adtial business.<\/p>\n

George says he\u2019s still trying to fill or\u00adders. Backlogged supply chains have kept bicycles and parts hard to find.<\/p>\n

When pandemic restrictions are fully lifted, he intends to start that community bicycle club he\u2019s long envisioned. He hopes to recruit more people to a mountain bike club he al\u00adready established.<\/p>\n

In the Bible, Jacob and the angel wrestle through the night at Penuel. At last God gives Jacob his blessing.<\/p>\n

George is determined to make the most of God\u2019s gift<\/a>. \u201cBicycles are my life,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ll never stop trying to share that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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