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Urbanistic Tea and Bike Shop

It will discombobulate you at first to see tea strainers and bike locks hanging side by side, and the odor of rubber and grease isn't what you usually expect to mingle with the delicate scents of tea. But somehow it all works at Urbanistic Tea and Bike Shop, a little nook in Highlands Square that is run by the brother-sister team of Ethan and Michelle Bontrager. Ethan is a bike mechanic who also repairs wagons, strollers and just about anything on unmotorized wheels; Michelle, who's clearly tasted every single one of her selection of 140 teas, is the tea expert, and she usually keeps a pot of something soothing brewing behind the counter. It's the ultimate urban experience.