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Pittsburgh Bike ‘Hoarder’ Opening Museum

By: Joe Mandak, Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP).- Craig Morrow has a simple reason for creating Bicycle Heaven, a combination museum and vintage parts shop tucked into the warehouse district along a bicycle trail on the north shore of Pittsburgh’s Ohio River: He loves bicycles and wants everyone else to love them, too. But how he came to collect more than 1,500 bikes and some 90,000 parts and accessories, well, that’s not so simple. “I’ve probably moved in, probably, over 100 pickup truck loads of stuff,” Morrow, 54, said as he and a handful of close friends scurried to arrange storage areas overflowing with mountains of tires, boxfuls of pedals, and walls filled with bicycle forks and handlebars just days before Saturday’s grand opening. “I guess you could say I was a hoarder of bike stuff.” Morrow worked in an auto