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We're located near Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving customers throughout North America for Rohloff and Schlumpf. For selected shops and consumers, we also provide wheel building and suspension overhaul services.
To learn more about the work we do, please contact us by phone or email:
(510) 868-1777
info@cyclemonkey.com
Cycle Monkey
713 Solano Avenue
Albany, CA 94706
About Our Experience
Cycle Monkey was started in fall of 2005 as a side project to service the suspension forks of East Bay mountain bikers. Custom wheel building was soon added both as a passion of our founder and to address the decline in the number of qualified wheelsmiths as the cycling market moves towards complete factory built wheels.
At Cycle Monkey, we live and breathe bikes—we love to ride them, work on them, and talk about them, from road to mountain and everything in between. We have specialized tools to work on just about anything. When you ask us to service your Rohloff SPEEDHUB, build a new set of wheels, or overhaul your suspension fork, you get the real-world expertise that comes from 20 years of riding, racing, and wrenching on bikes.
We pride ourselves on staying informed about the latest technology for both road and mountain bikes. We routinely attend manufacturers' training classes and keep up-to-date on the latest service manuals. We have a far more complete toolset than the average bike shop, including specialized tools for Rohloff, Schlumpf, suspension, frame prep, and component servicing. When it comes time to install a new part or repair an older one, we know what we're doing before we pick up a wrench. We admit it: we're tech geeks. It's a badge of honor to have memorized specs for most suspension forks produced.
Outside the shop, we've got thousands of real-world miles in our legs on trails and the road, from training, racing, and just having fun. Our founder, Neil Flock, got his first mountain bike at age 10 and started wrenching at a bike shop at age 13. He continued to improve his riding and wrenching skills throughout high school and college, and later raced on the road at the Cat 2 level for a few years after college. Neil spent several years doing sales and service for Rohloff's U.S. office before focusing his attention full time on Cycle Monkey.
Based on Neil's Mechanical Engineering degree and some professional product design experience, we developed the Monkey Bone. We have several new projects in the works, so please check back with us for future accessories that enhance the Rohloff SPEEDHUB.
Services for San Francisco Bay Area Cyclists
If you're near Berkeley, feel free to contact us for more information on custom bikes and personalized fitting sessions. We're an authorized dealer for Paketa, Lynskey, Spot, Independent Fabrications, Ventana, Lenz Sport, Ellsworth, Brooklyn Machine Works, and Maverick. We have a collection of demo bikes set up with Rohloff SPEEDHUBs and Schlumpf drive units. We work with The Bike Fit Studio for bike fitting. For more information on getting fit using the Retul system, please contact info@thebikefitstudio.com.
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