In the troubling new age of $4-a-gallon gasoline, Dave and Kristine Olsen are offering another way to fight back. The Grand Rapids couple will shortly be setting up shop at 173 W. Clay close to Terrace Street in downtown Muskegon with a line of Whizzer Motorbikes.

Their Grips N' Gears Bike Shop Co. is as well approved as a dealer of Cannondale bicycles and Bern helmets. And they expect to bring other bicycle brands, together with Surly and Felt, to their showroom. Once open for business, the Olsens will be complementing a downtown business that concerns itself with the other end of the mechanical, two-wheeled spectrum -- the Hot Rod Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership that opened very last year.