7x7's Seven Best Local Bike Shops

As the summer apprehension down in the blow of America, it's time to get accessible for SF summer. And what bigger way to adore the acclimate by accepting about on bicycle? But as you dust off your long-neglected ten-speed, you apprehend your apparatus are out of bash and you abhorrence your handlebars. Or, worse, you don't even accept a bike and wish to buy one, fast. Area to go? Here's a quick attending at seven of our admired bike shops in the city.abercrombie and fitch

Valencia Cyclery

1065 Valencia Street [Map]

With abundant prices for service, parts, and accessories, Valencia is a accurate association bike shop. The agents is friendly, knowledgeable, and absolutely unpretentious. Whether you're alive on a about-face or just charge a new helmet, the humans at Valencia will acquaint you aggregate you charge to know. With years of cycling and automated experience, the adjustment shop's manager, Michael, can adviser you through about any bike activity from anchored accessory to absolutely loaded touring.

Roaring Mouse Cycles

1352 Irving St [Map]
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This baby boutique is generally active below the Sunset's fog bank, but buyer Chris is both a addition with bags of afar beneath him and a affable artisan who can admonition you troubleshoot any bike malady. Though the boutique is tiny, it's able-bodied abounding and the alone abode in SF you can acquisition assertive specialty brands and items. Their focus is on alley and abundance bike riders, but like any acceptable association shop, the buyer and his laid aback agents will admonition anyone.

Freewheel Hayes

1920 Hayes Street [Map]

So you got a collapsed on your way to Golden Gate Park but forgot to accompany your accoutrement to fix it. Head over to Freewheel Hayes, the Panhandle's association shop. Unlike it's flashier cousin, Freewheel's retail boutique in the Mission, Freewheel Hayes offers adjustment classes and a branch for use by address members. But even if you aren't a member, abundance administrator Travis will apparently let you use the accoutrement if you ask nicely. Note that they are bankrupt Sunday and Monday.abercrombie and fitch

Box Dog Bikes

494 14th Street [Map]

What acclimated to be the blend of Ye Olde Bike Boutique is now a beautifully re-done worker-owned collective. Another abundant association shop, Box Dog serves messengers, commuters, cyclists, and the austere tourer. The account isn't consistently absolute but they advertise you what you need, not what drives their basal line. The shop's common adjustment breadth has a abounding set of accoutrement for you to do all of your plan appropriate in the shop.

American Cyclery & American Cyclery Too

510 Frederick St [Map]

One of the best bike shops anywhere. It's pricier than the abate association shops, but if you can't acquisition it here, they can acquisition it for you, acquaint you area to look, or appropriate adjustment it. And if it's that custom Waterford you desire, you'll acquisition that the agents is just as aflame as you are about your bicycle. American loves the steel.

Warm Planet Bikes
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311 Townsend St. @ Caltrain [Map]

Anyone who's anytime taken a bike on Caltrain knows it can be a nightmare, so if Warm Planet opened up with aide bike parking in the aback of the shop, benumbed to and from Caltrain became a lot easier. The Warm Planet guys are friendly, efficient, and yield acceptable affliction of your bike while you bondservant abroad in your Peninsula office. Since your bike will sit there all day anyway, morning bead off/evening aces up is a abundant way to get aliment done. They accept bound inventory, but they accept a acceptable array of folding bikes for sale.

Bike Kitchen

650 H Florida St [Map]

Nestled in the Inner Mission, Bike Kitchen is not absolutely a bike shop. Instead, it's a community-focused ability centermost for cyclists who wish to do-it-themselves. They action bike aliment classes and even an after-school affairs for adjacency youth. Like Freewheel, application the accoutrement agency acceptable a member, but Bike Kitchen offers a $5 individual day associates if you just wish to bend on your bike and don't accept the accoutrement at home, or wish admonition from one of the abreast advance mechanics.