Please ask about services not listed. Flats are usually handled on a while-you-wait basis. Bikefix is a Full Service shop.

A NOTE ON SERVICE: Bikefix will never try to sell you anything you don’t need. Bicycles, however, are dynamic machines, made up of parts designed to wear out and be replaced at both regular and irregular intervals. Sometimes it is a matter of safety, other times it is a matter of preserving the integrity of a component. Sometimes a new part is a performance enhancer. Sometimes it just makes you happy.

Rates for recumbent bicycles, as well as tandems are higher, and quoted on a case-by-case basis.

Bikefix does not service four-wheeled cycles of any kind, and it does not service gasoline-powered cycles.

Tune-up: $85–$100
If you ride a lot you need this service at least once a year. The Bikefix Tune up resets your bicycle to its intended specification, which is a standard it might not have enjoyed the day you rolled it out of the bike shop. Wheels are trued, shifters and derailleurs are dialed in, and brakes are reset. Hub bearings are checked and set, as is the headset bearing and bottom bracket. All three piece cranks are removed which allows the true condition of the bottom bracket to be assessed. All fittings are inspected for proper torque and wear. Tires are inspected and properly inflated. If any thing is broken, cracked, frayed, worn or just plain dead, the Bikefix Tune up will catch it.

You will have forgotten how well your bike rides.

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Tune up with Drive Train cleaning: $135
In addition to everything included in the Bikefix Tune up, front and rear derailleurs are removed and cleaned; the chain will be cleaned or replaced; chain rings and cassette cogs are removed and cleaned.

Your bike will purr after this.

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Safety Tune: $50
Available only on some garage sale type bicycles and bicycles purchased from mass merchants and general sporting goods stores.

This service is designed to minimize the cost of safely operating an inexpensive bicycle that is ridden for very light recreation and errands. Whereas the Bikefix Tune up is focused on making each element of the bicycle perform ideally, the Safety Tune secures the major systems on the bicycle, adjusts them within reason, and lubricates each external component properly. An inexpensive bicycle desired to be ridden at a higher level of performance and reliability generally requires more time and skill than what the standard Bikefix Tune up includes.

All rates are inclusive of labor only; parts are extra, and the customer is always consulted.

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Custom Bicycle Building: $175 – $250
If you’re the kind of rider who has the passion to create a new bicycle from the ground up, Bikefix is your kind of shop. Custom building is a specialty, and it requires an experienced hand. When your dream machine is ready it will be drop dead gorgeous. Every fitting and component will be set, adjusted, pre-stressed and torqued as it is meant to be. The handlebar taping will be masterful. All frames and forks are fully prepped where appropriate, as determined by frame material.

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Overhaul: $300
($240 in November, December and January)
Best done in the off-season, this is the time consuming and total breakdown, cleaning and rebuilding of your bicycle. Cables and cable housings are replaced, as are all the ball bearing systems; handlebars are re-taped. This service will make your bicycle new again. Anticipate between $50 and $100 in parts expense over the labor costs.

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Wheel Building
(Generally about $40 per wheel and quoted on a case-by-case basis.)
Bicycle wheels are beautiful things. Hand built bicycle wheels are hand crafted beautiful things of enduring performance, durability, comfort and serviceability. Unfortunately, many riders don’t know this because marketing again is winning out over common sense, and expensive, uncomfortable, proprietary aero type wheels are on too many bikes that don’t really need them.

Hand built wheels, custom made to suit the rider’s size, bicycle, and riding style are never out of date. With first-rate component selection, they are surprisingly fast, indescribably durable, breathtakingly comfortable, eminently serviceable—and affordable.

Not to knock aero wheels—we’ve sold hundreds of sets. They’ve come a long way in terms of quality and durability; in terms of lightness and aesthetics, some of them are marvels to behold, and there is no doubt that in certain applications they reduce the rider’s race time. We think Steve Hed is a genius, and if you call him he can make one of his wheels to order for you. On the down side, these types of wheels can be rigid and unforgiving; they are expensive. They are extremely difficult to service. If you damage one of these, or simply break a spoke, forget about using that wheel for about a month. Proprietary parts require that about 99% percent of their problems be addressed at the factory. They just don’t make sense for most riding/riders. On the other hand, should you find yourself in the middle of Nebraska with a hand-built, traditional wire spoked wheel with a broken spoke the nearest shop will keep you rolling.

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Frame Prep
Is your headset adjustment true? How can you really know? Most shops still press in these vital components without first reaming and facing the head tube to its proper tolerance. Fork crown race seats are notorious for the excess of material and paint built up around them—unless this is exactly removed, your fork will not be running on a straight line.

What about your bottom bracket? During the era of higher end cartridge bottom brackets a shop could get away with inferior work, but in today’s age of outboard mounted crank bearings this is no longer a consideration. Bottom bracket threads need to be chased, and the shells must be faced in order to ensure the opposing bearings run parallel along the same axis. Anything else and performance, not to mention the integrity and durability of expensive components, is compromised.

Bikefix uses the world’s finest frame prep tools from Campagnolo, Park, Cyclus, Var and Cobra. Each steel and aluminum frame and fork receiving bearing services at Bikefix is prepped—and prepared—to be taken to its limit.

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Bicycles and Parts
Bikefix sells Waterford and Gunnar, Surly and Salsa framesets. Certain Italian and other American framesets may be available. The shop is fully stocked in the parts it needs to take care of your bicycle. Other components, accessories, and items are available same or next day in most situations.

Please inquire if you need anything.

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