MSU Bikes Guide to Services

General services

The MSU Bikes Service Center offers a full range of bicycle services, including:

• bike repair work
• short- and long-term bike rentals
• new bikes for sale
• biking accessories
• bike storage
• used bikes for sale

The service center charges for its services. Fees vary depending on the difficulty and time required to complete the repairs. We accept:

• Visa/MasterCard/American Express/Discover credit cards
• Spartan Cash
• cash
• checks
• eJVE (for departments)

The MSU Bikes Service Center is located here on the Michigan State University campus. For questions about any of our services, call us at 517-432-3400.

Wondering what our customers think of our work? Take a look at our customer comments page.

Bike repair work

The MSU Bikes Service Center is your one-stop location for your bike repair needs. We offer a variety of repair services, including: flat tire repairs; tune-ups (basic and advanced); wheel truing (straightening bent/wobbly wheels); building new custom wheels; brake and gear adjustments; bike storage (long- and short-term). We can also special order parts and accessories from the largest distributors in the United States.

Loaner bikes are available while your bike is getting repaired (limited availability).

The service center charges for its services. Fees vary depending on the difficulty and time required to complete the repairs.

View an example of our restoration work.

Leasing/renting

The MSU Bikes Service Center offers:

• General maintenance with each green bike at no extra charge during the lease period. General maintenance includes flat tires, lubrication of rusty chains, adjusting brakes/gears, minor turning of wheels and worn-out tires.
• A variety of accessories (baskets, fenders, bells, lights) that can be installed on our green bikes for half of the typical installation labor charge (costs for accessories will be required). A lock is provided with each bike at no charge.
• Free compressed air to anyone at any time right outside of our service center entrance (low pressure and high pressure for road racing bikes).
• Above-ground access with a ramp.
• A convenient restroom.
• Smple service hours to help keep your green bike running smoothly.
• Bicycling videos to watch while you wait for service or to check out for seven days for free.
• Bicycling-related books, magazines, stickers, shirts and more for you to read, borrow or purchase.

We offer short- and long-term rentals for both our green bikes and deluxe bikes that are typically sold through bike shops (Specialized, Trek, Giant, etc.). The deluxe bikes are not painted green and also come with a lock. General maintenance (repair/replace) of wear-and-tear type items (tubes, tires, brakepads, chains/ freewheels) is included with all our rental bikes. Helmets are strongly recommended but not included; we occasionally have free ones and also some for sale.

All of our rental bikes are on a first-come first-served basis. We do not offer reservations.

*Note: The deposit is refunded only to a credit card upon return of the bike in the same condition. You'll lose the deposit if the bike is stolen or damaged beyond repair. Additional rental fees (if the bike is not returned on time) and costs for repairing any damage are taken out of the deposit. Deposits are not required for MSU faculty/staff where charges are made to a departmental account number.

Call the shop at 517-432-3400 or e-mail us with any questions.

Requests for green bikes are first-come first-served basis. When the bikes are gone, they're gone until "new" ones are ready for leasing.

Click here to find the lease agreement and where to complete and return an application.

New bikes for sale

We're proud to be a "Fuji University" program, the fourth in the country. We offer sales and service of new Fujis, Breezers, SE, Terry and Kestrel bikes. We can order any of these manufacturer's bikes and have them built and ready for you within three to five business days in most cases. Customers with MSU identification (students, faculty/staff) receive a discount. Come on in and test ride one today.

Click here to see some of the new bikes we have for sale.

Click here for our listing of other Lansing-area bike shops in case there's something we don't have that you need right away. We can also special order items we don't stock from a variety of vendors.

For more information, contact MSU Bikes through e-mail or call 517-432-3400 during business hours.

Biking accessories

We stock a wide variety of parts and accessories to service all makes, ages and models of bikes like any other shop. We can also special order accessories that we might not stock; please ask.

We now stock most of the smaller parts for converting bikes to fixed-gear (track cogs and one-speed front wheels of various sizes, lock rings, one-speed chains (in various colors), conversion kits for one-piece to three-piece cranks), fixed/fixed wheel sets (silver and gold with more colors coming), bullhorn h-bars (Origin8), rubber track grips, lock rings (for both track and for doing the fixed-gear conversion to a road hub), chain tensioners/chain tugs, one-speed conversion kits for free-hubs, and track-style pedals (Origin8).

We can also special order anything (no shipping if you wait until we place our regular orders with our vendors). For those do-it-yourselfers, we’re now stocking more tools, too (pedal and crank wrenches, chain-whips, chain tools, etc.).

Bike storage

Long-term storage for winter/summer breaks is available at a secure warehouse on campus. Rates are $20 per month or $40 for two to three months. One-week notice is required to retrieve your bike.

Used bikes for sale

Our used bikes are tuned up by trained mechanics (unless otherwise noted). These bikes are either private donations, or abandoned bikes; we rarely purchase used bikes. We provide a 30-day check-up on our used bikes; however, there are no guarantees and sales are final. We often have used frame-sets in stock. Check out our used bikes for sale online or stop by or e-mail to inquire. For a look at what we've sold in the past, take a look at our sold bikes archive. 

Additionally, MSU Surplus occasionally assists us in the sale of our nicer used bikes. Take a look at the MSU Surplus Store's current list of used bikes for sale here.