The Broken Spoke

The Broken Spoke is a bicycle shop in Iowa City, Iowa - with cats!

The Broken Spoke offers bicycles and frames from Independent Fabrication, Kona, 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!

Web Site: thebrokenspoke.com

The Broken Spoke
602 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240
319-338-8900
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winter is finally here…?! 01-12-2012: It would appear as such. Thus, I shall postpone this post no longer! The shop is fully stocked of studded tyres for your continued Winter riding into the white stuff! Also, round two of Walz cycling caps have been in. The vast majority of these are wool & have […]
more custom wheels… 10-29-2011: Here are a couple more wheels that I hand-built for customers! This one is a Phil Wood fixed gear hub that is disc brake compatible. This wheel was built up for fixed gear mountain biking. Yes, you read that correctly! An Alex Adventurer rim laced up with Wheelsmith double-butted […]
pugsley wheelset… 10-29-2011: Here is the first of a bunch of wheels that I have hand-built for customers recently! This is the second set of wheels I have built for a customer in Solon. The rear wheel is comprised of a Surly Rolling Darryl rim(powder-coated white!) laced up with black Wheelsmith double […]
sweet sweet tandem wheelset… 08-31-2011: Here’s a tandem wheelset I built up to go on a customer’s Burley tandem. Before. Then, prest-o-change-o! After! They are 48 hole Phil Wood tandem hubs laced up to Velocity Chukker rims with Wheelsmith DB spokes in a four-cross lacing. These things are strong […]
the broken spoke walz cycling caps are in…! 06-17-2011: Indeed, they are in & they are pretty awesome! Each cap is made in the USA & I’ve got a plethora of styles from moisture-wicking to wool. Come in & check them out!
yehuda moon volume one… 06-07-2011: Fresh in the shop! Volume one of Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery is here! Check out this awesomeness! From www.yehudamoon.com: About Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery Yehuda Moon works at the Kickstand Cyclery, lives on his bicycle and dreams of a day when […]
kona sutra commuter… 05-26-2011: Another custom frame-up build to come out of the shop! This one was a Kona Sutra frame built up into a light & fast single speed commuter. Full fenders & rack are the usual staples for an awesome commuting bicycle. The Brooks B-17 in British Racing Green […]
kona ute raffle…! 05-17-2011: It’s Bike To Work Week! Want to win an awesome bike? Come into The Broken Spoke this week to enter a raffle for this fine Kona Ute cargo bike! Tickets are just $5 with no maximum quantity limit! Proceeds will be split between the Iowa Bicycle Coalition & […]
custom wheels keep on rolling…! 05-03-2011: Yet another custom hand-built wheel to come out of the shop! This is going on one of my customers’ very much loved Surly Long Haul Trucker. This one consists of a Schmidt SONdelux generator hub laced up to the tried & true Alex Adventurer rim with Wheelsmith […]
raleigh grand prix mixte & snowflake laced wheels… 05-02-2011: This was a used bike for sale at the shop that got bought by a customer and then we stripped it down to the bare frame so pretty much all of the parts could get updated with new stuff. New parts consist of lots of Velo Orange stuff like hubs, crankset, bottom bracket, fenders, […]