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We welcome donations of sturdy bikes that are in good working condition. If you have a bike that you'd like to donate, please click here for more information. To drop off donated bikes (contact us first please) here's location information to the MSU Bikes Service Center.

Shop Ride along the River Trail

Our shop staff went on an early-spring ride along the Lansing River Trail to Old Town. Check out the pics along the way (and no, that's not a wine bottle, that's some fancy Euro water in that bottle).

Christmas Bike Trees, Lights

Michigan's best bike advocates, Rich and John of the League of Mich. Bicyclists, sent us an email just before Christmas with a photo of their home-made bike trees. Very cool; click to enlarge.

Playing around with some Christmas lights and an old bike I had planted in my front yard last year I came up with a lucky combination of blinky lights that make the wheels look like they're spinning. Check out a short movie clip (AVI format; should play with Windows Media Player).

Skunk Works Fun at the Service Center

Sparty Rides a Bike too...

Click the photo at right or here for more photos of Sparty on one of our classic MSU Green bikes.

Joys of Bicycling on the MSU Campus

Miscellaneous photos of the fun and beauty that awaits you and your bicycle on the MSU campus.

Randonneur Riding in Ingham County

Brothers Tim & Jeff Potter took a randonneur (country) bike ride on vintage touring bikes (Jeff on a 1974 Paramount, Tim on a early 70's Raleigh Super Course Mk II) on some lovely dirt roads in NE Ingham County (near Perry/ Lainsburg) in Oct. 2005. Here are some photos from the ride. Contrary to what many road riders might think it was a wonderful experience despite the occasional wash-board road surface. Here's an article by Jeff about the ride.

Cruising the Kal-Haven (Rails to) Trail

Tim & good friends Dave and Craig decided to skip the long driving part of our now annual trek north for a getaway and tackled the Kal Haven State Park Trail which goes all the way from northern Kalamazoo, MI, to S. Haven on the shore of Lk. Michigan. Click here for photos.... A cycling friend (& MSU alum), Rick Oberle, was instrumental in seeing this incredible trail happen. It's about 34 miles one way, so it was a cool 100 km ride. I fortunately chose to go with a classic road bike, a 1974 Paramount (borrowed from brother Jeff) which was perfect for the job, while Craig and Dave went with MTBs which turned out to be a killer workout for that distance. We ended up running out of daylight, but fortunately I had brought along one of my handy-dandy LED Turtle lights which prevented us from running into fellow trail users. Overall, the Kal Haven is a great way to see SW Mich. country side without the killer hills you'd normally get riding the road. An excellent option for families with younger riders (with lots of time) and other riders who might not be ready to tackle those hills!

New BP Photo Gallery on Flickr

Thanks to volunteer Mike L. and several other friends for turning us on to Flickr for free photo storage/ sharing. Check out our MSU Bike Project gallery @ Flickr. We'll be using this service for upcoming event photos, etc.