StreetLevel: Bike Shop Gets Rolling on Bergen
Although Bergen Street between 5th Ave and Flatbush recently lost a retail tenant, it also a gained a new one: Ride Brooklyn. The bicycle shop has been open for a couple of weeks now, and from the looks of its sidewalk display, it appears to have a side business involving strollers. Ride Brooklyn [Official Site]…
Although Bergen Street between 5th Ave and Flatbush recently lost a retail tenant, it also a gained a new one: Ride Brooklyn. The bicycle shop has been open for a couple of weeks now, and from the looks of its sidewalk display, it appears to have a side business involving strollers.
Ride Brooklyn [Official Site] GMAP
Vinca – do you think a mountain bike is a viable option to use as a commuter bike (as they seem the most reasonably priced)
My bike now is more of a cruiser, and I find it doesn’t have enough gears to make getting uphill on the Williamsburg bridge very manageable, and doesn’t manuever very well (can’t really manage delancey street/bowery very well, so i go out of my way down to the grand st bike lane atm)
This place is great. I stopped in to ask what I thought was a kind of dumb question and was treated very nicely. I’ll definitely go back. A far cry from R&A, which is just down the street on 5th Avenue.
anyone else picturing 11217 on a pee wee herman bike riding down 5th avenue trying to run over nannies honking his horn? lol. cuz i do
*rob*
I disagree…thanks for that tip! I’ve been spending a lot of time in PH lately…I think it’s my new favorite neighborhood. I’ll check it out this weekend! Thanks.
An affordable option for occasional-use mountain (not road) bikes is Costco. If the maufacturer’s frame is decent, you can always upgrade selected components. (Or buy a better bike down the road if you find yourself getting more serious about riding.) A critical factor in the purchase is buying a bike that fits well. If that topic’s a mystery to you, there’s plenty of information online, but it’s one of the services a good bike shop provides (reflected, in part, in the higher retail prices of locally-owned bike shops).
It’s unbelievable how expensive bicycles can be. Very few road bikes are below $1,000 dollars – and I’m amazed how many 2k and even 3k bikes I see chained up all over the city.
I have yet to find a legitimate used bicycle shop in the city that actually stands behind their product – and isn’t shady as hell (sell stolen goods more then likely).
^^ sorry, st. marks and washington.
they also sell jogging strollers, too.
hey, 11217, did you see there’s a new cafe opening in PH that will brew stumptown? it’s going to be called sit & wonder, sister cafe to bittersweet in FG. st. marks & underhill.
DH:
As far as I could tell, it’s all new bikes. Yeah, I guess it’s been a while since I’ve owned a bike, because I was unaware that prices for bikes were so high. I was thinking $200-300, but some of these were quite a bit more than that. I really don’t need or want anything fancy though.
I still want to check out the other new bike shop down on 9th, but I have a feeling I might be going the used route…
I believe zinka is correct, these places are year round. I believe bike ridership is up something like 86% just in the past year. I’ve noticed the uptick in bike ridership for sure.