Sic Transit Cycles

Specialties

We proudly feature Jamis, Bianchi, Surly, All-​City, Linus, Pashley and Brompton, and a wide variety of reconditioned city, touring, commuting, road and mountain bikes. We also collect, buy and sell collectible vintage bicycles and parts.

We have a full-​service repair center staffed by highly professional bicycle mechanics. We work on all makes and models regardless of brand, style or year.

We also stock a carefully chosen selection of high-​quality accessories for riding and commuting, including the largest selection of Brooks saddles in the state of Michigan.

History

Established in 2009.

The roots of our business go beyond our opening. We began buying and selling used and vintage bikes out of a shared garage in Ann Arbor’s Old West Side in 2006. As this story so often goes, we soon found ourselves with little room to move amid the mass of bikes we had procured.

We began looking for a workspace to continue our passion and our hobby, all the while laying the groundwork for a business. What began as a simple curiosity about the way a small business worked, unwittingly became the foundation for a real business.

We found our current space one day on a bike ride, and as we peered in the window that afternoon, we saw a 1978 Schwinn sitting in the corner. We knew at that moment we had found our space and the rest is history, really. Neighbors began stopping by to ask if we fixed bikes. Within a week it became clear we needed to turn our hobby into at least a hobby business. And from that first day, word of mouth has kept us running. Thanks, Ann Arbor.

Meet the Business Owner

Joe B.

Business Owner

Joe can be found most often rhapsodizing about what lunch will be for the day. Definitely Captain of the ship. Freethinker, problem-​solver, surprisingly good dancer, co-​semantics-​quibbler, friend to all, cyclist, pragmatic dreamer, and co-​conspirator in bringing joy to world through bikes.