Most customers will wait at the bar, sip a coffee from cyclist-owned Steady State Roasters next door and shoot the (warm) breeze. You’re just as likely to see a $20,000 Pegoretti in the stand as a local kid’s beach cruiser. Gordon Yeager, the mechanic and proprietor serves up complementary cookies, dog treats, and witty comments from behind his workbench as he performs one of his locally-famous tune-ups. Velohangar has seen various iterations since it left the airplane hangar that gave it its name, but the shop has settled into a shipping container just yards from iconic, oceanfront Highway 101. San Diego is a cycling paradise: great roads, glorious weather, not to mention this great shop. Stop by for the popular Thursday evening ride and grab a smoothie-we recommend the Campy Cooler. “It turns out people like our food, and like to hang out here,” says Sara. As business improved, they expanded into an adjacent space that previously housed a café. After graduating in 2010, they took out a loan for $10,000 and opened Mello Velo. While attending the University of Syracuse, Sara and Steve Morris ran a bike-repair business out of their garage (Sara, who studied industrial design, wrote her thesis on bike culture). (The Austin Daily Press, a bistro next door, dishes out tacos, tortas, and sandwiches to the Wheel’s customers.) Drop in for a drink and set your pint glass on the sprocket-inlaid bar, or swing by the bicycle service station to top off your psi-this friendly neighborhood joint is open late so you can capture the lanterne rouge for being the last to get home. They settled on The Wheel, and now the cozy space serves craft beer and whiskey specials to the flood of thirsty cyclists coming in off the roads and nearby trails. When it came time to name a new watering hole at the intersection of two popular bike-laned streets in east Austin, the owners weighed two options: The Wheel, after the Grateful Dead jam, or Lanterne Rouge, for obvious Tour-related reasons. The welcoming atmosphere encourages customers to relax, enjoy some live music, and share in their love of bikes. But it’s the inviting interior space, accented with communal picnic tables, that makes Denver’s Bicycle Cafe popular. There’s a coffeehouse that serves espresso brewed with locally roasted beans fresh pastries, and warm pretzels a bar with local craft beer on tap and a shop with mechanics who are as adept at repairing singlespeed commuter bikes as they are at piecing together a custom Alchemy road bike. This downtown institution nails the trifecta of bike shop amenities: coffee, beer, and skilled wrenches. Media Platforms Design Team Denver Bicycle Cafe
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