Jim Lewis, 47, owner of the two Hutch’s Bicycles and two Hutch’s Rack-n-Roll stores in Bend, has been around bicycles most of his life. Lewis started assembling and fixing bikes as a 14-year-old at Hutch’s Bicycles in Eugene in 1971. That store was owned by Bill Hutchinson.

In 1981 Lewis came to Bend to open up a Hutch’s on Third Street, with Hutchinson as a partner. He opened a westside location in 1989, followed by a store selling multisport automobile rack systems in 1997 at the original Bend Hutch’s, and another rack store in May 2003 on the west side.