Service, Repair & Support

Service & Repair

Quick Tune-Up $20
Get your bike ready for the weekend, or for a midnight ride

  • Check bicycle for functionality/safety
  • Air in tires, lube chain and pivot points, minor adjustments
  • Adjustment barrel tweaks, touch-true wheels

Repair time is while-you-wait, or same-day service.

Complete Tune-Up $60*
Get your bike finely tuned and lubricated.

  • Adjust brakes front and rear
  • Adjust derailleur front and rear (lube pulleys)
  • True wheels front and rear
  • Adjust all bearings
  • Lube chain and cables
  • Light cleaning

Repair time is 1 to 3 days.
*Add a full drive train cleaning for $20 more (normally $30).

Full Bike Overhaul $150*
Get your well-worn bike totally cleaned up – looking and riding like a brand new bike. Includes the services in the Complete Tune-Up.

  • Bike is disassembled and cleaned
  • Headset, hubs and bottom bracket overhauled
  • Cables and housing changed (if needed)
  • Complete tune-up and drivetrain cleaning

Repair time is one week.
*De-rusting an old bicycle will increase the cost and time required to get your old hero ready for another chance at glory. Expect our prices to double if all the chrome has turned brown.

We also offer a number of “a la carte” services – wheel truing, individual part replacement, etc.

All service work does not include the price of replacement parts. Before replacing a broken or malfunctioning part on your bicycle, you will be contacted for approval – either by phone, email, text message, passenger pigeon, yodel, or Facebook.

We stock a variety of low-end replacement parts, as well as a cache of Velo Orange, Origin 8, Shimano, and other specialty parts most shops have no need for (Sturmey Archer three speed shifter cables anyone? 3S bottom bracket spindles? Anyone?).

LACBC, Eastside Bike Club, law enforcement, KPCC member, KCRW member, and student discounts available (i.e. an instant 5% off with some sort of proof – credible stories, tales of wonder and amusement accepted). We also do plain old barter, but you’ll have to inquire within for that (no, we don’t exchange your old bikes for our working bikes – sorry).

Flying Pigeon Bicycle Support
If you have recently purchased a Flying Pigeon bicycle, and it has had a technical hiccup or needs some assembly – fret not! Flying Pigeon LA is diligently working to provide you with the information you’ll need to build and fix your PA-02 or PB-13.

Our Flying Pigeon brand bicycles use proven technology from the middle of the 20th century. In most parts of the world, this technology has been in continuous use for over 50 years. With a basic set of tools, just about anyone can patch up a Flying Pigeon.

Flying Pigeon Bicycle Assembly Instructions

Rod Brake Maintenance