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The Broken Spoke is a bicycle shop in Iowa City, Iowa - with cats!
The Broken Spoke offers bicycles and frames from Independent FabricationKona, Salsa, Soma, Sun, Surly, and VooDoo. They also carry an inventory of used bikes which are fully repaired before being sold, and come with a month of free adjustments. They're pretty picky about what they sell, so you can be assured you're getting a good used bike!
The Broken Spoke
602 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
319-338-8900
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Headlines From The Broken Spoke
- sekai fixed gear conversion… 07-18-2008
- Here is a before photograph of a fixed gear conversion that came out of the shop recently. And here is the end result! It looks a lot cleaner without all of the cables & derailleurs, and it certainly weighs less in its latter state than its former. Simple, elegant, […]
- bike-in theatre… 07-10-2008
- It’s back! I was worried that it wasn’t going to be happening this year. That was until I found fliers for PATV’s great Summer event in my mailbox just the other day. Bike on down to PATV tonight at dusk for the first bike-in theatre of the year. It’s […]
- kona ute in action… 07-05-2008
- Here is a fine example of what the Ute is capable of. The orange Peugeot in the background had to relinquish its seat on the back of the Ute to 50lbs of cardboard that needed to get from the shop to City Carton. Wide Load! A compression strap & some bungee cords […]
- kona ute… 06-28-2008
- They have finally arrived! The Kona Ute is a complete longbike that retails for less than what the Surly Big Dummy frameset does. Amazing. Carrying on with The Broken Spoke’s philosophy of bikes as transportation, the Ute makes for a very abled bicycle, indeed. […]
- kona stinky… 06-08-2008
- The Rocky Mountains are certainly in the future for this dual-suspenstion beast! Sure to turn any Iowa mountain into a molehill, this Stinky got a rear shock upgrade(Marzocchi Roco TST-R) before it was even ridden out the door.
- bianchi single speed/fixed gear conversion… 06-01-2008
- Here is a nicer old Bianchi that wasn’t being used much by its current owner. Until now, since it has seen new life reborn as a fixed gear! Not only did the derailleurs & gears get stripped, but the drop handlebar & brake levers got swapped out as […]
- kona africabike 3.0… 05-18-2008
- Finally, Kona Africabikes have become available for ‘08. I got a few of them in at the shop this week. A gentleman from Des Moines snagged the first one a day after they had arrived! Kona has a wonderful program going on with these bikes. They were developed to aid […]
- bike to work week… 05-12-2008
- I know. Every week is bike to work week! But, not with the kind of events that are taking place this week. Check out all of the details here: http://www.cicbikeweek.org/ Don’t forget, if you ride your bike to The Broken Spoke, you can fill out a ticket which will get […]
- surly crosscheck “shimergo” conversion… 04-28-2008
- Regardless of what the cycling industry will have you believe, more isn’t always better. Modern 10 speed cassettes rely on thinner cogs that wear out faster & cost more than twice as much as their 8 speed counterparts. And when it comes to shifters that are […]
- kona smoke xtracycle… 04-22-2008
- Here we have a Kona Smoke converged with an Xtracycle kit. Xtracycle conversions are a wonderful way to carry oversized objects that would normally be quite difficult on a regular bike. This one is going to be transporting an additional passenger on a regular basis! […]
