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Best Bicycle Shop

Hairstylists may have to tolerate clients droning on about bad boyfriends and office rivalries, but bike-shop staffers are the ultimate masters of the art of listening patiently. Although they frequently don't care about your plans to shave two ounces from your stem or your carbo-loading strategy for an upcoming race, the best wrenches never sho...

The northwest section of Miami-Dade County, bounded by the Palmetto Expressway, Florida's Turnpike, and Interstate 75, is an urban cyclist's paradise. From Palm Springs North to Doral, you can cover 20-plus miles of rugged terrain that takes you through a suburban utopia, a concrete jungle of industrial warehouses, and patches of sensitive wetla...

Few feelings are better than coasting through the streets of Los Angeles via a bicycle. Few feelings are worse than the one you get when your wheel suddenly pops out of its bracket and you find yourself withering under the intense scorn of a standard bike store employee. Enter Orange 20 Bikes. Now in its sixth year, this offhandedly hip bike sho...

Set in Old Town Scottsdale, Bicycle Haüs is the town's ultimate cycling boutique. It carries drool-worthy, super-high-end lines like Rapha, Assos, Pinarello, and Colnago in a shop that is always immaculate. Even though it's got the stuff that can fill anyone with bike envy, it also has baseline bikes for those looking to cruise the Greenbelt or ...

Nestled just outside Memorial Park on a quiet neighborhood street, West End Bicycles is one of the city's oldest bike shops, and it's still the best. It started as a mountain-bike shop, and though it offers much more, including an impressive selection of Dutch-style cruiser bikes, the muddy buddy ethos remains. The staffers are patient and frien...

Walk into Big Shark Bicycle Company in the East Loop, and you'll be taken by two things: the staggering selection of bicycles and the super friendly staff. Indeed, Big Shark is the rare kind of bike shop that caters to everyone and doesn't discriminate. A college student looking for reliable transportation for less than $400 is treated with equa...

Max Vu was already pulling sick tricks (which you can watch on YouTube) at the local skate park at 6, an age at which many kids are still riding bikes with cartoon characters on the seat. Problem is, such bikes aren't built with the durability or performance for a youngster of Max's talent. So Max's dad, Phu—who owns Epic Ride Shop in Westminste...

Macomb Bike and Fitness is a full service bike shop that sells top-quality bikes from Trek, Gary Fisher, Orbea, LeMond, Trailmate and Sun Cycles. We stock almost every type of bike, including road, mountain, comfort, hybrid, cruiser, children's, BMX and recumbent bikes.

We work hard to earn your business not just once, but over and over again. And it's why we strive to deliver excellence in every aspect of our business. It means top-notch customer service to help you find what you need. Next, it means service training and expertise. Our staff of assembly and repair mechanics is factory authorized for work on mo...

The best bike shop in Tampa-St. Petersburg just happens to be located on the best bike trail in Tampa-St. Pete, the Pinellas Trail. So, as soon as your custom build, which the shop specializes in, is ready to roll, you can hop in the saddle and ride the paved trail. Bicycle Outfitters sells some of the most respected and hip brands in bike cultu...

"Life's Short....Enjoy the Ride!" It's what Bicycles Plus is all about. My business philosophy has been simple, but includes a few important guidelines: (1) Treat people the way you would want to be treated. (2) Keep an open mind about everything that comes your way. (3) Always, always treat people with respect. We've always wanted to offer grea...

It started with two pals — Alex Nosse and Renato Pereira-Castillo — and a dream whose time had come. Passionate about bike travel and helping spread the bug to other interested folks, the pair opened Joy Machines in the summer of 2011, helping kick-start the surge of eclectic businesses reshaping West 25th Street in Ohio City. The point is to ma...

It's not just Penn Cycle's years of experience (the business started in 1957) or locations (seven spread around the Twin Cities) that make its stores a vital part of the local community. In the bicycle-mad Twin Cities, each of its spots offers service along the entire bike continuum: the important first step of purchasing, maintenance, and how t...