Mike’s Bike Shop

I called in to see if they do repairs and maybe get an estimate, and I got their voicemail. Their voicemail greeting is a pretty damn good impersonation of Hank Hill from King of the Hill talking about their hours and so forth. HILARIOUS. If this is any indication of the service I’m going to receive, I am pretty stoked about bringing my bike in. Will update review when I bring my bike in.

Wanted to give this place a try, but it’s 10 o’clock on a Tuesday, they’re not open on Monday or Tuesday, I need board parts, «stat».
If you’re not open, your closed.

Most personal customer experience with this man. Mike is an extremely knowledgeable hardworking badass motherfucker and has a great selection of bikes and skateboards. Gives deals on boards and will teach you how to set it up or provide good conversation as he sets it up.
Don’t miss this place, stop by.

The guy’s a total D*CK…or just really straight forward.

Came in today to have a donated bike fixed for one of my clients. The owner was very informative and made sure I did not walk out with a bike that was unsafe to ride. I spent a little more than expected, but I’m not complaining bc it is for a good cause. I hope this bike helps make a good Christmas gift for a 6^th grader. I will definitely be back. There is also a nice café next door, if you have to wait on your repairs.

Mike is awesome. No bullsh*t, no hassle and straight to the point. Wish more shops were run like mikes bike shop and skateboards!

Just want to praise Tony of Mike’s Bike Shop! He steered me in a direction that helped me save money and time and I can tell he puts his heart and soul into the repair! I don’t understand the negative reviews, here, for customer service as Tony was great!!! Love to support this shop…

Came in 30 minutes before close. Thanks for squeezing me in even though there were 2 bikes ahead of me. Thx for pumpin my tires bro

I’ve been coming here since I was a teenager and Mike has always been the coolest dude in the neighborhood.
I’ve gone from Beach Cruisers to race bikes and he has helped navigate me through the bs of what I need and don’t need. After going to other places and seeing people trying to up-​sell you on parts that you probably don’t want Mike gives you a straight answer every time.
It might come off weird if you don’t know it but Mike doesn’t try to rip you off if what you have on your bike is hurting your ride he will tell you. If your bike doesn’t really need to be fixed he will tell you that also.
I bought my last bike her a Masi Evoluzione before I did a charity ride from San Fran to LA and it held up just fine and exceeded my expectations even with me being a bigger rider.
If you want real service from a real person and awesome bikes then this is the spot for you. He’ll always have my business.

Poor customer service! Not even greeted upon arrival and when we talked he was extremely rude and pompous. needed an tube for my tire so i brought my whole bike in and his first question was «are you sure its popped?» as if you needed to be a bicycle mechanic to know a tire is flat??? Why own a bike shop if your going to act that way towards fellow cyclists?
Extremely unprofessional…

Okay long story but its all in the details. I get there, he is in the back, he sees me, dosent do shit. I wait for him. He comes. Uninterested. No greetings or what so ever. He sees the bike. i tell him whats my problem, and what i need. i want this nut THATS ALL. he start to blabber bakabbaalanababalabakabak ur bike is rotten i cant fix it nanana blablabla! (kind of when chef ramsey get a raw dish lol)
i said i know i dont care, i just want this nut… Can i buy it? He said NO! Im like what?
Well yes, sell it to me u have the piece i need… Im not here to tune up my bike, i want the shitty quick fix, (and i totally own this decision, its my choice if i wanna invest or not in this bike, in the meanwhile i want it to basically fucntion) so i say: or just sell me the dam nut and ill fix it home, but i need it you know haha can u sell it to me? And then he finally agrees. WOW. THANK YOU LORD JESUS.
I wanted to buy a magazine too i was like how much? He said roughly «well just read on it!!!» and i was still nice like okay…(im sorry to ask the price of ur merch, how rude of me…) So its 1 $ plus 4 $ the magazine. I only have a hundred. Im like do you have change? And he is like welll no!!! I mean, u my first client of the day what do u expect!!! I was like okay…(thinking well u give ME shit because YOU dont have change for ur client?) well okay i dont say nothing. I still stay friendly. he be like there is a restaurent beside go get ur change there! My lord just go to the restaurent! (Like if i was wasting he precious time or idk.)Im like well okay… I go but the resto in not friendly at all they say they dont have time. Well okay. I go back to the shop and im like well im gonna pay with my card. He is like: well its a dollar charge!!! Im like okay still friendly, even starting to laugh on my own to see how much bullshit and bad energy hes trying to give me over a 1 $ item that i want to buy… And i wanted to chit chat nicely, well at least try to have a good experience with him so i chit chat like: so how much? He is like 6 $. I dont camplain. And he add: welll u know i change the nut for free!!!
Im like okayy (not so sure why he wanted to remind me that… Maybe because he wants me to acknowledge how generous he is maybe…) First i didn’t even complain about the 1 $ charge for making me pay with my card cauz he didn’t have change) so yeah mike thank you so much! For changing the nut for free (a 30 second manipulation at best) thank you very much for that.
And STILL i try to chit chat nicely at the end hoping that hed be nice, well not really he was like oh i like you dog!!! Oh i like dog so much better then human!!! (well thank you for liking my dog mike way better then human! Wich would be me in that case i think haha.)
Well people go there if u have money to fix ur bike like PERFECTLY FIXED and be super invested like if it’s the last piece of milky ways on earth if not hes gonna look at you like you are dumb (not to go for the best fix)
and mike, well i know i love quality too, thanks for your so humble intention for trying to fix us so badly but remember: in any business, its what the CLIENTS wants thats important, and how you treat them that makes a good reputation, not your personal opinion when not needed, dont try to force people :) we know we have shitty bikes, we broke, just help us fix it the way we can afford or the way we want, thanks THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY! Make your own opinion Unilocal peep

My wife hadn’t ridden her bike in years, so it was pretty filthy and sorely in need of a tune-​up. I dropped it off on a Saturday morning, and picked it up at lunch on Sunday. It looked and rode like new! Super nice guys, definitely take your bike here.

My buddy and I came here last minute to get a tire repair and were happy we came to the right place. Excellent job, quick repair and fair price. I highly recommend!

I got new wheels for my skateboard from this place. I really think it should be supported. Mike is old school. Doesn’t take shit, and is straight forward with you. He cares a lot about the equipment you bring in, and the equipment he sells. After first intro, and getting used to him because most people in LA aren’t very straightforward, but Mike is, I had a good chat with him while he explained to me the shitty state of my board, not because he was digging, but because he cares about what he does. All the best! Rides like a dream!

Really great local skate shop. Mike is a super cool informative guy to talk to and his shop has a really good vibe. Love going here to get my board looked at and just talk with mike. He also gives sweet deals if you buy complete boards from him. Really homely place. 5 stars.

Mike is a great guy and very knowledgeable about bikes. He recommended several bikes and let me test them out. I didn’t end up purchasing one yet, but if I do, it’ll be from him.

Where to even begin?
Long story short, this guy is a joke. Rude, No customer service skills (unless you’re female apparently) and inept! DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME /​MONEY HERE!!!
Long story long…
I bike to work 4 days a week and I got a flat on the way there. On my lunch break I quickly Unilocaled the nearest halfway decent bike shop and Mike’s came up so I went there. Upon entering Mike was chitchatting with a woman who had just bought a bicycle. They were seriously just having a non-​bicycle related conversation. I gave them a couple minutes, still no greeting, no hello, nothing. After literally 2 minutes I politely interrupted them, but was ignored. Once she left I was rudely greeted by Mike and I told him I wasn’t sure if my tube had a puncture or if it just went flat. I asked him if he could check, he said he could not. He insisted that «it’s best to just inflate it and wait.» Hmmmm. It was refreshing to encounter a business owner who isn’t just trying to make money every chance they get.
I asked him for the pump and as I was pumping, Mike proceed to point out flaws and scratches on my bike, basically trying to belittle me for his own amusement. He only stopped when I told him I was hit by a car last year and that shut him up QUICK! He turned nice after that and even explained how to use his pump.
I left with mixed feelings about the shop and if nothing else went wrong, I probably would have left maybe a 3 star review but unfortunately there’s more.
I rode back to work and noticed the tire had less than 100psi. I worked a few more hours then took my bike back to Mike’s.
He was chatting up another woman and again I was ignored for a few minutes. I had to butt in because again the conversation wasn’t bike related and I was in a hurry. I asked him for the «flat repair service» and told him I’m in a hurry and I’d like to wait in the shop. He told me I couldn’t wait in the shop. Okay, there are chairs in the shop, surely customers sit in them. He said he has «something to do» and he can’t get to my bicycle. I told him I’d pay him extra for «expedited service» but he just rolled his eyes. He told me to go take a walk or wait in the café next door and it’ll be done in 45 min. Sigh.
Came back in 40min. and the woman was gone so I sat down and waited. And waited. And waited. An hour and 20 minutes after I left my bicycle with this dude it still wasn’t done. He was swearing at the top of his lungs and yelling and throwing things while I was sitting and waiting. Apparently he couldn’t put my wheel back on because the «master mechanic» had gone home. At one point he told me he’d give me a refund and give me my bicycle back in pieces. Ummmmmm… Finally, he called back his mechanic and my bicycle was put back together. That mechanic (not Mike) was actually a pretty cool guy.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Mike noticed my wheel wasn’t «true» and thought he’d help me out by fixing it. He banged up my wheel so bad, real-​life actual mechanics at a different bicycle shop, said it looked like someone had taken out their problems with a hammer on my poor wheel.
Plus one day after Mike put a new tube in my tire, it went flat again.
Sssiiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhhhhhh.
If you read that long ass ordeal, wow, now just imagine living it.
This place should be shut down, period.

First time I walked into Mike’s, it was nothing but great service… I just recently moved here and I decided to get my first skateboard since I was 11. So, I asked Mike on my choices he had in there and he was WONDERFUL giving me advice and options… options…that’s what was so cool. He has a nice variety of wheels, bearings, decks, etc…
So now, a year and a half later, I’m still going strong from my first «California» bike shop. It’s all about VAN HALEN. HAHA.

I was looking for a decent bike shop in the area to fix my Electra’s flat tires and found this on Unilocal.At first I was scared away by the negative reviews which told of condescending guys and bad customer service. But figured since it was so close to my home it was worth a try.
Sure enough, my experience differed greatly from what was reported. Not only was the counter guy super attentive, even though he was helping someone else, but he was straight with me. No upselling. And when my bike was taking a bit longer than he had originally said it would he apologized and offered me a beer. It wasn’t my type of beer — Natural Light — but I appreciated the gesture just the same.
Afterward the mechanic who fixed my flats helped me walk my bike to my car and even loaded it without my asking. I’m not a pro cyclist or even a frequent cyclist so don’t know if this is how it’s normally done but I liked the attentiveness and service. Will definitely be back.

I’ve been a couple of times, and I can’t get over the attitude.
I’ll find another shop.