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 $20, you get a full bicycle tune-up (a $40 value) at Eastside Cycles on South 11th Street. The full-service bike shop repairs, sells, and rents bicycles—and won Best New Bike Shop in a 2010 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 2010. 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
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The Groupon Guide to: Exotic Pets
Though it's true that dogs are "a man's best friend," and that cats are "the husbands of the sea," some potential pet owners are lukewarm to the traditional balls of slobbering fuzz at their disposal. Here's a guide to the latest, hottest exotic pets for the discriminating animalista:
- Teacup Pigs: Bred to be as small as 25 pounds, these puppy-size pigs are the ideal pet for anyone who loves having unimaginable filth in their home but only has room for a little of it. These diminutive domestics also make the perfect accessory for anyone who dreams of being a giant farmer.
Secret Fact: In culinary circles, teacup pigs are also known as Cornish game hogs. - Iguanas: Sure, they look cool, and they can flick away stray bullets with their tail, but iguanas are most famous for being stupid—right? Actually this couldn't be further from the truth—also known as "wisdom lizards," or more rarely, "double dolphins," iguanas can be taught to place distinct shapes of colored pegs into matching holes, and are often trained by the police to do so.
Secret Fact: Due to their obvious genetic ancestry, iguanas breathe a little fire when they're scared—turning any airtight container lined with olive oil and heirloom potatoes into the perfect self-heating dinner for two. - Parrots: The real reason to get an exotic pet is attention, and nothing siphons attention away from you like your infant niece or nephew's first guttural utterance of "mama," "cookie," or "stop it." Clip baby Einstein's wings by showing up at your next family event with an animal that can speak people language, and watch the cross-species conversation turn back to something interesting—you.
Secret Fact: Parrots, just like chickens, turkeys, ducks, Christmas gooses, and ostrich burgers, are all members of the bird family.
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