{"id":4665,"date":"2012-04-04T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/photos-best-of-long-beach-city-grounds\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:53:00","slug":"photos-best-of-long-beach-city-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/photos-best-of-long-beach-city-grounds","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Best of Long Beach — City Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4:00pm | <\/strong>Editor’s Note: This is an expansion on our print coverage of the Best of Long Beach. Given our limited print space, we wanted to further share our experience at these amazing businesses via the many photos we took. We feel it not only allows the reader to better understand why each place was chosen, but provides the chance to spotlight local businesses visually. We will do one business every day until all 30 winners have been covered. Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Best Bike Shop: City Grounds<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

City Grounds has history. And given that history, Abe Mubarak \u2013 quite possibly and simply put one of the coolest and most relaxed dudes on a fixie \u2013 is confused: \u201cPeople walk in here and I ask if they need help.\u201d He pauses, beginning to hide behind a bike hanging off the wall, imitating the fear of speaking mysteriously induced by the store to newcomers. \u201cIt\u2019s like they\u2019re scared and I\u2019m\u2014 I just wanna help \u2018em out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is that warmth \u2013  which can be felt even through facetious jabs mocking beach cruisers and mountain bikers \u2013 that has made City Grounds so successful. Not only do they know what they\u2019re doing (an absolute essential given the eccentric obsession with specifics that is the bike culture) but when it comes down to it, the members of City Grounds just want you to love riding your wheels.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Manager Brendan Sund, \u201cWe\u2019ve really reached out to the community and over the past three or four years, we\u2019ve really begun catering to the commuter and city rider aspect of Long Beach biking. Y\u2019know, we started fixed-gear, single-speed specific, but since then we\u2019ve branched out to cater to anyone who is pickin\u2019 up a bike and riding around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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City Grounds | 435 East 1st Street | (562) 726-1234<\/span><\/p>\n
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City Grounds has history. And given that history, Abe Mubarak \u2013 quite possibly and simply put one of the coolest and most relaxed dudes on a fixie \u2013 is confused: \u201cPeople walk in here and I ask if they need help.\u201d He pauses, beginning to hide behind a bike hanging off the wall, imitating the fear of speaking mysteriously induced by the store to newcomers. \u201cIt\u2019s like they\u2019re scared and I\u2019m\u2014 I just wanna help \u2018em out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":69746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}