Comments on: Laguna Cyclery

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:01:33 +0000

These guys are forever fixing some minor, yet disabling ailment on one of our bikes, and then letting me know there’s no charge. So, LBC is where I am going this morning to buy a bike for the youngest and to get my old M-Bike a major tuneup.

I highly recommend this shop.

Jeff K.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:59:28 +0000

I highly recommend this shop.

Jeff Knowles

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:16:19 +0000

My god that Le Roi is beautiful. Every time I see it I want one in that colour with deep dish rims. Why did Wilier discontinue the Le Roi for 2010? A travesty, that's what it is.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:55:44 +0000

In 1968, my bike shop of choice was Pullin's Cyclery, in Chico, California. Mr. Pullin must have been in his 70s. His shop, housed in an old building on the south side of the little downtown part of town, was redolent with aged things - bikes and bike parts, the wooden floors, and a collection of posters put out by various bike companies.

Back then, I was a student at the state college, and though I don't recall meeting him, Steve O'Bryan was a high school student working at the store in the late 1960s. I left Chico for good in 1972 and didn't make a return visit to Pullin's Cyclery until 1999. The store location had moved, across the street, into another old building more than faintly reminiscent of the one I remembered.

Mr. O'Bryan ended up taking over the shop for Mr. Pullin, in a way becoming the old man's son. In a way he freely admits to, Mr. O'Bryan became Mr. Pullin.

Pullin's Cyclery isn't a pro shop. It's an old bike shop in a college town. Like Mr. Pullin, Mr. O'Bryan likes restoring old bikes and spinning stories. Old bikes and new line the walls, standing on the old wooden floors. The store, in short, exudes the kind of charm found in places like Laguna Cyclery.