Sammy’s Bikes

Sammy, Sammy Sammy. What can you say about this guy or his shop? He’s a first class grade A jerk who will make every attempt to rip you off and overcharge you. His prices are ASTRONOMICAL. But not only that, he’s just an a**, right to your face.
Bring a bike or frame in that you didn’t buy there and he’ll openly ridicule you because you are having an issue with it. My kid, who bought a frame from a friend of his went to Sammy’s to get some work done. Sammy takes a look at the frame and says smarmily «Thats what you get when you buy off eBay». What an A**hole! My kid was 15 (!!!) at the time.
Sammy can make the most hardened used car salesman look like a kitten. He will quote you prices so far over list your head will spin. He sells last years crap at next years prices.
To top it off, Sammy is a creepy dude, and I find a lot of women who have told me he makes them very uncomfortable.
Nobody loves Sammy as much as Sammy does.
Do yourself a favor and hit up Pedal & Spoke in North Aurora. This man and his shop do NOT deserve your business.

Just bought a Scott bike, Swiss made from Sammy’s. Highly recommend supporting this local business selling Hi Quality bikes. I was able to test ride it around Mt. Saint Mary’s to get a feel of which bike would work best for me. I had some issues with colors of seat and handle bars that they took care of for a reasonable price.
I bought my son a bike from a big box store last year and I had problems right away with it and employees in bike section were clueless.
This store is fully equipped to handle all types of bike enthusiasts and given the incredible trails we have in the area its just what we need.

This could have been one of the best bike shops around here; unfortunately, don’t shop there. The owner will try to over-​charge you by thousands of $ over retail price, will replace new parts with old parts when you bring your bike for service, will sell you a brand new frame that, in reality, is 3 years old, and the list goes on and on. Instead, check places like Bycicle Heaven in Geneva, The Bike Shop in Glen Elyn, and Wheels Werks in Crystal Lake. All very nice bike stores, with very honnest owners, who will sell you what’s best for you, at competitive market prices, not what they have in inventory… Sammy’s even recently lost his best mechanic who could not keep up with this type of behavior.

I stopped in Sammy’s after comparison shopping for a high-​end BMX bike for my son. I dealt with the owner and he showed me some great bikes. Got a fair deal on a great bike. My son loves it! I also had some brake repair done on a different bike that I had with me. Great service and overall good experience. I would deal with them again. Thanks Sammy!

Run. do not walk away from this place. They gave me a price for some Sidi shoes that luckily I went home and checked. They were a full $ 30 over the MSRP, and then offered to «come down» to the actual MSRP as a favor. But better yet, they sold me a saddle for OVER DOUBLE the MSRP. I would not even have checked the price on the saddle but after seeing what they tried with the shoes… Ouch… Cost me $ 40 to learn about these scammers. Never again.

Terrible service. If your looking for a brand other than what he stocks, it sucks and you shouldnt buy it. Went in looking for a single speed bike and all he had was an $ 800 frame and fork. No bikes for a reasonable price in this shop.

Sammy has taken great care of us in the time we have been going to him. The other shops in town didn’t even give us a second of their time because we are young and they didn’t think we were going to shell out the duckets for nice bikes.
Have purchased 3 from Sammy because he is passionate and knows riding.
He is a nice European man, I can’t believe some of these reviews! He is a great person and its the best shop in St. Charles, hands down.

Bad Service for a shop full of large-​ticket items. This is the closest bike shop to my work, and I decided to take my partner there on his birthday for a roadbike. We went in to get a bike and various accessories and got terrible service. While we were being ignored, I saw a couple other people around me buying merchandise and getting excellent service. I don’t know if the bad service was because I’m not spending enough money, or if it’s because I wasn’t wearing the right colored spandex to match the right size beer bellies.
The place was not crowded, it was a weekday, and it was the worst customer service I’ve ever seen in retail. The owner was rude and seemed like he was strung out on something. He certainly couldn’t pay attention to a word I said. He kept bouncing from topic to topic when he did have ten seconds to speak with us, and then he would bounce back to the other customers. I had to keep asking for help. Even the bike mechanics couldn’t concentrate on my questions. At least they had an excuse — they were just plain lazy and only grunted when they spoke.
As for the quality of the merchandise, the bikes are WAY over priced for the junkyard method used to piece them together. I had never seen Shimano Alivio mounted on a five-​thousand-​dollar Colnago before. Only with a Schwinn Cruiser bicycle seat would this have achieved Sanford & Son perfection. And I suppose the chipped paint on the bike matches the crappy chipped paint on the floor. Do yourself a favor, avoid this shop at all costs!!!
I cannot recommend this shop, and I will never go there again.
However, I do recommend going down to the shop on State Street where we were treated very kindly. That shop is a LOT CLEANER TOO! I mean, most places at least sweep the floor, right?

I wasn’t impressed with this bike shop. It seems to have some of the best high-​end road bikes around, but the shop is filthy and none of the components seem to match the bikes. Each Colnago and DaRosa has mismatched components that were scavenged from other bikes. I watched the owner take an Ultegra crank and put it on a Bianchi with 105 dérailleur. Who knows what sorts of brakes were on it.
The biggest problem I had with the owner, aside from him trying to sell me a bike $ 500 more than I told him I could afford, is that he wouldn’t keep his hands off my wife’s shoulders and kept calling her «sweetie» and «honey». Maybe if he wasn’t so busy groping her, he would have understood exactly what I was willing to purchase.
I didn’t purchase anything, and I will never return.

Good service, wonderful location. I was having issues with my bike (I’m actually still on my ride…) and they answered the questions I had out on the trail, pumped up my tires and were generally really friendly while they addressed my needs.
In terms of aesthetics, the place is located in an old mechanic’s garage, and you can roll right on in. Unsure about their selection, but I’m not (yet) in the market for a new bike, so it didn’t matter so much to me.

This place gets two stars for inventory only. They have some great stuff and the owner is passionate about riding. That’s where it stops.
Had my bikes serviced there initially. They both were not up to par once we got them back. Were told they would run like new. Not the case.
Recently went back for a tri-​bike. Wife was there before xmas and he quoted one price, when i went back he quoted a higher price which is about $ 500 more than what I can get it for anywhere else (online or locally). Same components, same model without question.