As spring spreads like spilled gravy over the land, hibernating bicycles slowly awaken and emerge from the undergrowth, shy and stiff with sleep. Help your own bicycle bosom-buddy rise and shine with today's deal: for $15, you get a full bicycle tune-up (a $40 value) at Eastside Cycles in Five Points. The full-service bike shop repairs, sells, and rents bicycles—and won Best Bike Shop in a 2008 Nashville Scene readers' poll.
The friendly staff at Eastside is knowledgeable and passionate about the ways of the velocipede, yet also talented at making customers feel welcome and unstupid. After performing a safety check, Eastside's crew will inspect and tighten all the bolts of your bike, as well as degrease and re-lubricate its drive train. They'll also adjust the headset, bottom bracket, brakes, hubs, and derailleur before cleaning the frame and checking it for instability and surprise pipe bombs. Finally, Eastside will inflate tires to their proper PSI to ensure a smooth and worry-free ride over city streets, rural slopes, and vast plains of banana peels. Call ahead to schedule your appointment.
Reviews
Nashville Scene readers named Eastside Cycles the Best Bike Shop in 2007 and 2008. Six Yelpers give it an average of 4.5 stars.
- They're friendly and helpful, and I think a bike shop is just what Five Points needs. – Patrick R., Yelp
- Excellent local bike shop. There is no sense of superiority and the staff is very friendly...they carry everything from low end commuter and cruiser bikes all the way up to the custom titanium road bikes. – Ian R., Yelp
Groupon Says
The Difficult-to-Understand Concept of Bi-Cycles
Although we take it for granted nowadays, the notion of a bicycle was both exciting and confusing to U.S. citizens in the late 1800s, when the contraption first rose to popularity. Take this account of a bicycle salesman's pitch from the Burleytown, South Dakota, Ledger, circa July 19, 1875:
Salesman: This, gentlemen, is a bi-cycle.
Townsman 1: Why, it looks as if a wagon has been sliced in half!
(townsmen's laughter)
Salesman: I assure you, this is no wagon-half. In fact...
Townsman 2: You've forgotten the other side of your wagon, sir!
(laughter)
Salesman: Gentlemen, please. Think of it like a horse…
Townsman 3: A horse that's been sliced in half, maybe!
(laughter)
Salesman: That's…not quite right. You see, you use these pedals...
Townsman 1: Petals? Is it a flower?
Townsman 3: A flower that's been sliced in half!
(laughter)
Salesman: Why is everyone laughing? That makes no sense.
Townsman 4: Dollars and sense!
(laughter)
Townsman 2: In half!
(great eruption of laughter)
Salesman: Fine, if you refuse to listen, I will just take my bi-cycle on to the next town where I'm sure someone will appreciate it. Good day!
(Salesman leaves with the bicycle.)
Townsman 1: In truth, I was hoping to see how that cider-making machine worked.
Townsman 3: Me, too.
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