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The Bikery at Yelp

"Since November 2008 the owner and head baker at Stillwater, Minnesota’s Bikery, a combination bike shop, café, and bakery, crafts bread using spent grain from the city’s newly established Lift Bridge Brewery. Vrambout has worked with and around beer for most of his life and sees bread and beer as almost inseparable."

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"Seven months after his arrival, Vrambout opened The Bikery—the only shop in town that offers both a tune-up and a fresh scone. 'I've been baking for 15 years,' says Vrambout, 'but I've been on my bike since I was seven.'"

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"I decided to combine my two passions — baking and cycling. I was born and raised in Belgium. My grandmother taught me how to bake, and I've always loved baking. The last 10 years, I lived in Bellingham, Wash., where I ran a bakery and restaurant. My family and me moved here a year ago so we could live closer to my wife's family."

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"The back half of his rambling shop is stocked with Minnesota-made Surly and Salsa bikes as well as imported models from Belgium's Eddy Merckx, while the front half, with its funky jumble of vintage garage-sale dinette sets, is devoted to eating. Don't ask me how Vrambout handles carbon-fiber frames, but I do know this: The guy can bake."

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"Olivier Vrambout is a man with flour in his bones. The grandson of a baker for a Belgian convent, Vrambout has bounced from what was once Zaire to Belgium to Washington State to Stillwater; it’s in this Saint Croix River town that he owns and operates The Bikery. His operation is a working bike shop; it’s also a tidy-but-welcoming bike-themed cafe that produces earnest and skillfully executed pastry."

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"Oliver Vrambout took his two of passions - biking and baking - and fused them together to make possibly one of Stillwater's most unique independently owned businesses.

On Tuesday, Vrambout opened The Bikery, a combination bike shop and bakery located on the corner of Fourth and Churchill streets in Stillwater's South Hill neighborhood."

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"It’s a cyclist’s hangout where one can sign up for a group ride with local riders, sit in a comfortable chair and browse cycling magazines, or — perhaps most importantly —fuel a day in the saddle with a cup of freshly ground coffee, a scoop of ice cream, or any of a wide variety of made-from-scratch pastries."

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