CyclingOct 30, 2026
The quiet rise of priority: the low-maintenance bike store built by a software CEO
Official homepage: https://www.prioritybicycles.com Cycling stores usually sell you a hobby that becomes a chore. Priority Bicycles sells the opposite: a bike you air the tires on and forget. The origin story is told on the storefront itself, and it explains everything about the shelf. Founder Dave Weiner was the CEO of a multinational software company who kept finding himself tuning friends' bikes just so they could go for a weekend ride and realized the products they wanted existed only at prices or maintenance burdens that made them unreasonable. So he quit, and in 2013 started building the bicycle his friends had described: lightweight, good-looking, affordable, and free of routine maintenance. A decade on, the New York-based company has quie …