Rudy’s Cycle And Fitness

Rudy’s Bike shop is truly wonderful. They have a professional skilled staff and their repair shop is the best. I have purchased two bikes for my wife and myself from Rudy’s getting useful input from their staff and received a great price, The repair staff is very skilled and knowledgeable and reasonably priced. If you need a new bike or service there is no other choice than Rudys

Awesome shop. Outstanding customer service of a level you don’t run across much anywhere anymore. Not the the closet shop to me, but well worth the extra effort to go there. Need a bike\repairs\parts? Go here.

I’m not the brightest guy when it comes to bikes. My kid was saying it was so hard to pedal his bike and one of his brakes didn’t work. Bike was nothing too crazy, a target special or something of the sort. The kid likes the bike. I looked at it for a couple seconds and told myself to go to the experts. I figured it’s worth the look before dropping another hundo on a new one.
Enter Rudy’s. Place has been around, and they know their stuff! Friendly staff, very knowledgeable. Simple fix for them took them 5 minutes. Couple adjustments, tighten a couple screws and reattach the brake line. Cost me a whopping 4 bucks. I would recommend this place to anybody! I was very thankful I took it in to have them check it out. Brought it home and the boy said it rides awesome now. Thanks Rudy’s you guys are fantastic!

Nice local bike shop willing to help out anyone in need. I like that they have a wide selection of accessories and tools to help you work on your bike yourself but in case you are a noob at bikes, then they are more than qualified to get the job done. Support small business. Shop here.

Friendliest business I’ve ever been to!
I’m a bike noob, and when I went in to buy a fixie the owner Rudy was the complete opposite of condescending. He was very knowledgable and super polite.
Customer service is also excellent– had to bring back my bike a few times due to some manufacturers’ problems– they fixed everything for no charge and with no bad attitudes.

It kind of breaks my heart to have to review this place poorly, because I had high hopes for this family owned very successful shop and the staff is VERY nice, especially Rudy. But TWICE now they have put me in danger with faulty «repairs» and accessory installations. I ended up at Rudy’s bc they had the bike I wanted ready to go. Along with the bike purchase came all kinds of perks such as free tune ups. Well, this is the last place I would get tuned up after these two experiences.
Experience 1: I buy my bike and a bunch of accessories. I ask the VERY nice and friendly burnout looking young kid to install my accessories, including a basket. He does. On the way home, my third time riding a bike in 20 years, the handlebars just drop an inch or more while I am riding. Apparently he forgot to tighten it when he installed my basket. I went to the shop on Lawrence at Western and they fixed it, free of charge.
Experience 2: I overload my basket and it snaps, just a couple of weeks later. I bring it back to Rudys for repair. I get helped by the young burnout kid again. I tell him I snapped my basket and it wont stay up and told him I actually find it kind of cumbersome for everyday use and that I want a bike rack on the back for more options, since the basket is removable. He «fixes» the basket and puts on the bike rack. On my way home, my pedals start clicking like I am changing gears when I am not. Also, the minute I put something VERY light in my newly” fixed” basket, it falls down again.
I take my bike the next day to the much closer to my home 5 star rated Turin’s shop in Lincoln Square…
The very professional associate there fixes my basket with extra reinforcements and tells me it looks like my gears are grinding bc one of my back wheels was put on a little crooked. Fixes it all for $ 15. Rudys charged me $ 12 in labor and didnt use a brake wire to reinforce my basket like Turins did. He said that was $ 5 of the $ 15, which makes their labor charge even cheaper than Rudy’s faulty one. Bike runs great now and basket seems very sturdy in its place.
Rudys put me in danger, and I cannot stand for that. I am a brand new cyclist and spent a lot of money on a brand new bike so I knew I would be safe. I will not be returning, even for my free tunes ups.
I am, however, in love with my bike and grateful that they had the one I wanted in stock and ready to go for me when I needed it.

Of the three bike shops close to me, Rudy’s is right in the middle, but it’s my #1 choice. Polite service and a wide variety of accessories make the experience pleasant. I’ll be going there soon to purchase my Topeak Road Morph G Mini Pump.

Went to rudy’s for the first time. The owner was very friendly and extremely helpful, but I’m kinda disappointed on the service I got. I had a new spoke installed on my hybrid bike and I was impressed bout the speed of the service it only took bout 10 mins, but when I was riding the bike home. The new spoke I had installed broke already. I didn’t have time to come back to get It worked on because I had to be at work. Gunna try to come back tomorrow and see what the y can do bout my bike.

I can’t believe that they’re not 5 full stars, they are some of the nicest people on earth, SUPER friendly, and they know what they’re doing. I got my back tube fixed and bike inspected for less than 20 bucks!

I went to rudy’s because they had great reviews, but I would not recommend going there, they told my back wheel would be 50 dollars and they charged me $ 20 «extra for some piece I needed.» They didnt even call me to let me know, I found out when I went to pick up my bike. And my bike is still making noise. I am very disappointed with this bick shop! I will never go back.

The prices are high and the staff are not well experienced. They don’t have the best knowledge and service takes too long. Although they are my closest available shop id prefer to commute the extra couple of miles to get better service

This place is awesome, the staff is extremely polite, helpful, and friendly. The prices are not too bad! Definitely my favorite bike shop!

Came in to get a flat fixed and ended up picking up rain gear that I had installed as well. The staff is very friendly and the prices are decent. It took them a while to finish it but the wait wasn’t too bad.

Great shop for getting your bike serviced. Not one of those extorsionist Lakeview/​Lincoln Park/​Wicker Park shops, they are reasonably priced and actually know what they are doing. I worked at one of those afore mentioned shops for years…

My first purchase at Rudys was such a wonderful experience I had to make it my first Unilocal review. Let me start of by saying the staff is so delightful! Very friendly, knowledge and charismatic. I bought two pure fix bicycles (The papa and the bravo) The moment i saw laid my four eyes on them i knew it was meant to be. Rudy was so helpful. We ordered them, and he even gave me a ring the moment they were at the shop. I picked them up and I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. Thank you to everyone at Rudys, I will be back soon!

My very first and only new bike (that I still ride, BTW) was purchased here in 1993. Now that I’m back in the neighborhood and in the market for a new bike, I thought I’d give them a shot. The crew here were nice back then and I was delighted to find that they are still nice. I stopped in this week after work and despite it being close to closing time, Rudy talked me through my options. We got it narrowed down and he told me to come back a little earlier the next night and he’d have them ready for me to test ride. Sure enough, I called when on the way and they set me up with the bikes I had been eyeing. The tech who helped me was friendly and accommodating. He adjusted things for me, listened to my concerns and adjusted again. He also didn’t try to up sell me, push accessories or anything else annoying. I paid for the bike and came back the next day to pick it up with the manufacturer’s pedals on it and ready to roll. Before I left, they talked me through my need-​to-​know stuff about my new road bike (vs my old mountain/​hybrid), set me up with a presta valve adapter, wished me safe riding and sent me happily on my way.
It is a smaller shop, so not for the extreme cyclist, but anything you may lose in selection, the service is well worth it. The pricing is competitive and they really couldn’t have been nicer or more patient.

I bought a bike a few months ago and needed some gear. There’s a place within walking distance of my house but becuase all of the terrible reviews, I skipped it (plus, I’ve been in there before and the owner is a jerk).
The empolyees are Rudy’s are super friendly and helpful… that’s enough to keep me coming back time after time.

So super helpful. I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed Rudy’s yet.
I’ve been in a few times for repairs or to have them give the once-​over for a new-​to-​me bike. They’ve always been beyond fair with their prices, and have done minor tweaks for free. I can’t say enough about the awesomeness of this shop and the people that run it.

It turns out I bought my last skateboard (ever) from the Lincolnwood location in 1990. 22yrs later and I bought my 1^st bike in over 20yrs there! Great kids working there. Went with my wife to buy a $ 300 – 400 bike and thats exactly what we left with!
SUPPORT LOCAL SHOPS!!! BUY LOCAL!!!

Everyone at Rudy’s is a cyclist, but not the strange, zombie-​type where if you so much as hint you own a vehicle or (gasp) take the bus, ever, you experience a blast of cold shoulder followed by a 15% mark up. The guys at Rudy’s love bikes, love riding bikes, and gently encourage their patrons to keep riding their bikes without making it seem … cultish… to do so.
So, go to Rudy’s if you need anything cycling-​related. You will not be sorry.