While the original location is accessible by bike, the Carrboro location caught the pair’s interest because of its walkability and proximity to downtown Carrboro and Chapel Hill. It’s been a linchpin sort of spot for that café culture that we wanted.” People come from Carrboro out to Mebane, then Briar Chapel, get coffee, and then come back up here where their cars are parked. We get groups in every weekend from Raleigh, Cary, Apex, out toward Hillsborough. “The roads out there are still pretty accessible for road bikes. “There’s 20-something miles of trails built into Briar Chapel for biking,” Pignatora explains. In 2011 Coughlin and Pignatora moved to North Carolina, and in 2016 when they were settled in, the timing and location were finally right to open Breakaway. A guy was opening a place like that two towns over from us, so we put it on the shelf.” We came back with the idea that that would be awesome to have where we live.
“It’s 2,000 people riding bikes, eating awesome food, drinking really good coffee, beer, wine, and music,” Pignatora recounts. The trip’s joint focus on biking and food awakened them to the notion of a business that married their shared passions. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox.Ĭoughlin was working in public health and Pignatora in action sports sales in 2008, several years before their joint business endeavors, when their experience on a bike trip with Cycle Oregon sparked the idea that would eventually take form at Breakaway.
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