BIKES!! Road bikes, hybrid bikes, little kids on bikes, mountain bikes, racing, commuting, touring.....COMMUNITY, We're the proud sponsors of Team Oakland and the Berkeley High School Mountain Bike Team. Nationally recognized cyclists who started out racing for the Missing Link include Ben Jacques-Maynes and Gina Hall! We support our local clubs & cycling organizations by giving discounts to members of BFBC, EBBC, GPC, OYJ, Team in Training, & AIDS/Lifecycle riders. And we love to help out at events such as Bike to Work Day and the Grizzly Peak Century.........YOU and DYI, 1000's of cyclists have benefitted from our free bicycle repair classes & used our self-service repair area, where basic tools are available for you to work on your own bike......ENVIRONMENT, We are committed to bikes as transportation & reducing waste, & we're a Berkeley Certified Green Business. We recycle worn-out chains with Resource Revival, who crafts them into cool new stuff, as well as old inner tubes. We're also participating in the Clif Bar/Terra Cycle Energy Bar Brigade campaign to collect used energy bar wrappers for recycling.
Music
KALX
Television
Who needs TV when there's sheldonbrown.com?
R.I.P. (Ride In Peace) Sheldon.
Heroes
Major Taylor, Thomas Stevens, Sheldon Brown, Amelia Bloomer, everyone who braves the roads on two wheels each day
We are a collectively owned and operated bike shop, providing new and used bicycles, parts and accessories, and bicycle repair in Berkeley since 1971~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's a worker collective?
In short, a worker collective is owned and controlled by the employees. The employees of the store are the worker-owners and own equal shares of the shop and have long meetings deciding how to run it together. This kind of business benefits the workers by providing a sustainable, egalitarian, empowering workplace. It benefits the community because local owners are responsive to local concerns and profits are not exported outside of the community. It also benefits the customers because every time you walk through our door, you are speaking to an owner, not an indifferent wage slave accountable to distant management. For more information, check out the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives at www.nobawc.org~~~~~~~~~~~~~We sell road, commuter/hybrid, mountain, touring, cyclocross, and kids' bikes from Trek, Bianchi, Jamis, Marin, and Ridley, as well as Surly and SOMA by special order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our shop is in downtown Berkeley at 1988 Shattuck Avenue, one block from the downtown Berkeley BART. We are open Mon - Sat 10-7, Sun 11-6 (winter hours differ).
