bicycling in the rurals (in which the Town of Amesbury is bike unfriendly)

Amesbury MA has a dearth of bike racks. First we rode into the millyard, to met my dad for lunch at The Barking Dog. We had to lock up to a "no parking" sign, because the parking lot had no actual bicycle facilities, despite being the town center. Then we took the bike path as a shortcut to Amesbury Skate and Sport to purchase cyclometers for my bike and Alice's brand new bike. Um, no bike rack there either. They did sell and install the cyclometers and a kickstand for Alice's bike while we walked up to the Stop and Shop mall where we got haircuts (at the supercuts) and groceries. No bike racks at the Stop and Shop either, despite it being one terminus of the Amesbury bike path. Our new cyclometers told us that is was 4.5 miles home from the Skate and Sport, and we saw NO Bike racks at all in our travels.