Bike Works NYC
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Bikes for Cyclists
Bicycles make a better world.
We want more people on bikes,
to make bikes work as best as possible,
and to nurture bicycle culture in our community.
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Shop Hours
Open 7 Days a Week!
Monday to Saturday
11 AM to 6 PM.
Sundays 12 to 5 PM.
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Shopping at Bike Works
Bike Works NYC has a full-service staff providing sales, repairs and service,
including Dave, Ben, Liz, Feliks, Rachel, and Rob.
Cash, Visa, MC, and Amex cards are accepted.
Gift certificates available and discounts for activist members of cycling groups.
Rentals, trades or used bikes, only by appointment.
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Where's 106 Ridge Street?
Bike Works NYC is located at 106 Ridge Street, New York, N.Y. 10002
Lower East Side, south of Houston St. north of Delancey St. at Williamsburg Bridge.
Between Rivington Street and Stanton St., across from PS 140.
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Bike Shop of the Year 2000
"Mad as Hatters, But They Know Their Stuff." --NY Press.
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Best Bike Shops in NYC 2011
"The mechanics at this laid-back, 13-year-old shop have a reputation as experts." --Time Out New York.
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Products & Services
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Bicycles & Frames
Bike Works sells touring, road, track, urban, unique and classic bicycles,
including Surly, Pake, Soma, Velo Orange, Rivendell and Euro-Asia. We have a local frame builder on hand and seek to offer bicycles with the best fit, form, function and price.
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Wheels, Parts & Accessories
We do the finest wheel builds, guaranteed with lifetime truing.
Dave has over 35 years experience,
beginning with Jobst Brandt and the Wheelsmith brothers.
We offer a select variety of rims, hubs and spokes,
for all kinds of bikes: touring, road, track, folding, recumbents, cargo trikes, etc.
Striving for perfection, our tools include Phil Wood spoke cut and thread machine, truing dial guages, spoke tensiometers and tuning forks.
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Professional Repairs
Bike Works offers expert repairs on most makes at reasonable rates.
Flats fixed $14-$20. Tune-ups $35-$50 plus parts. Overhauls $75-$150 plus parts.
Steel frame and fork alignment repairs $25 and up. Frame welding repairs $75 and up.
We want to hear you sing: My Bike Works!
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Custom Bike Painting
We offer custom refinishing of frames, forks, parts and accesssories.
Depending on your project, wet enamel paint or powder coat paint is available.
Basic frameset with one color costs $225. Typical start-to-finish assembly costs $35 to $125.
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Bike Fit
Making the bike fit you and your ideal cycling position makes life better. We offer fittings by appointment. To find the size of your bike frame and components, to solve any physical or technical problems, to improve your ability and performance.
Our tools include Fitstick, Waterford Fitmaster cycle, Bike Fit Systems Goniometer.
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Wheel and Gear Sizing Charts
Showing what size tires and rims fit your bike,
and how to calculate gear ratios for your wheels.
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Cycling Clothing
We have a variety of cycling t-shirts, caps, gloves, helmets and our own Bike Works NYC - Bicycle Paintings jerseys & jackets, with the smiley bike logo on front and Taliah Lempert's track bike painting on back.
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Picture Archives
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Archive Bicycles
Hundreds of bicycles documented over a decade. Some call it bike porn.
Bikes we've assembled, recycled, overhauled, tuned-up, or just looked at.
Don't get too excited, these are not for sale here.
They're owned by friends, customers and others.
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Chainring Archive
Two pages of chainrings and chainwheels to see,
plus the Chainwheel Kalidescope.
We like them al dente and round as Pi.
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Saddle Archive
Welcome bicycle seat sniffers!
A collection of leather, anatomic, banana, carbon, plastic, titanium and hard-to-find bicycle seats from past to present.
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Women with Wrenches
The New York Times Sunday Metro Section "Spokes" blog featured our past and present wrenches: Arone, KT and Katlyn.
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Zagat Rated
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Village Voice
Best of New York City 2003
"Best Bench: Bike Works NYC"
Among all the wonderful public places to sit in New York City,
the self-proclaimed "capitol of the world,"
the best one in 2003 is here, but only when we're open.
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Competition Bicycle Rollers
