by Hugh Merwin

Manuel Mainardi, a co-founder of the production company Creative Chaos, has been serious about bikes for 15 years and racing them for five. After he was temporarily sidelined by a motorcycle accident a few years back, he began to draw out plans for a shop where "people could come in to sit down and play cards, or stand up at the bar and drink an espresso," he says, but also get tune-ups or flat tires fixed.

Now, after several months of build-out, his Maglia Rosa has debuted at the farthest reaches of Fourth Place, just a few feet from where Hamilton Avenue curves around the BQE in Carroll Gardens.

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Source: http://www.grubstreet.com/