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Richard Conradt, co-owner of the Walton Trail Co., relaxes on a barstool before closing
Monday night. Conradt said business has been good since the the company opened May 1.
Food, bikes and more at Walton
By Anne Steyer
Staff Reporter
Signs tacked to the counters and
walls read “Free Air, Free Oil, Free
Advice.”
What the signs should say is “Great
Food, Great Services, Great Atmo
sphere,” because The Walton Trail
Company, owned and operated by
bicycle enthusiasts Richard Conradl
and Rich Rodenburg, gives all these
things and more.
Located one block north of the
MoPac Trail in Walton, the 110-year
old building on the comer of east
118th and A streets that now houses
the Trail Company has been home to
many things, including a U.S. Post
Office, a hardware store, a general
store and Willie’s, a local tavern.
But now the site is a stopping and
starting place for people using the
MoPac Trail, Nebraska’s newest trail
for hikers and bikers.
Any number of the shop s 12 em
ployees arc on hand 10 fix flats, rent
bikes and provide advice about their
favorite pastime — cycling. Bicycle
accessories arc located on shelves
that cover an entire wall, highlighted
by tires and tubes hanging from the
ceiling.
Bicycle rental is $10 for two hours
— more than time enough to trek the
2.5 mile distance between Walton
and tljc trail’s Lincoln starting point,
84th and O streets, and back again.
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There’s not another
bike shop east of
town past 40th street,
and we have a really
good service staff
and sales tax is
cheaper here than in
Lincoln.
— Conradt
Walton Trail Company
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Bui, Conradl said, the shop rents
more than bicycles.
“ChiId-carriers, car racks, you
name it, we’ll rent it,” he said.
That accommodating philosophy
has been with the partners from the
beginning. Conradl, a Lincoln High
School teacher and swim coach, and
Rodenburg, owner of Bike Pcdalers at
33rd and B streets, have been plan
ning the Trail Company for nearly
three years, Conradl said, long before
the path to Walton was finished. Ac
commodation and patience were both
necessary to sec the project through.
“We spent a whole lot of time and
money getting itready,’’Conradl said,
“but now everything is going really
well.”
The success of the Trail Company,
which opened the first week of May,
is probably owed in some part to the
variety of services offered. It not only
boasts the full-service bike shop, but
a fountain service as well.
The shop bakes bread fresh daily
and the menu offers a variety of sand
wiches, with a load of extras that can
be piled on free of charge—horserad
ish and pickled pepper rings among
them—as well as raisins, ice creams,
ciders, juices, waters and sodas, with
coffees from The Mill tossed in for
good measure.
But, Conradt said, no matter how
good things get, “you always have
these big dreams," to make it better.
He said he and Rodenburg hope to
develop the upstairs level also, and
will work to increase aware ness of the
shop's location and convenience.
‘There’s not another bike shop
east of town past 40th street,” Conradt
said, “and we have a really good
service staff and sales tax is cheaper
here than in Lincoln."
Conradi said he is enthusiastic
about the proposals for further devel
opments of the MoPac Trail. Funds
for a pedestrian underpass at 134th
street were approved at the end of
May and city officials estimate the
underpass will be completed by win
ter.
“I think it will do nothing but help
the smaller towns,” Conradi said.
Reception in Walton has been very
warm and welcoming, Conradi said,
and he said expects that trend to con
tinue as the trail expands.
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