A bagel by any other name would be as round

Gib’s. Everybody in Fort Collins knows the name. It has become almost synonymous with “bagel” and has taken over Brian Long’s given name. He’s Gib.

Now Mike Howland is at the helm of Gib’s Bagels, to the resounding approval of the bagel man himself.

“I just went in to the new store on Olive (until last month, the Olive Street Bakery) in downtown Fort Collins to give it the once over,” Long said. “Mike is doing an awesome job of carrying the name and the culture of the business. I worried about that because I had built it up.…