The Brake Room at MSU

07/09/2025

The Brake Room is NOT open this summer semester; sorry. Stay tuned for fall semester schedule once we've got it figured out.

04/29/2025

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Sign up to get notified when the Brake Room is happening! We run the Brake Room on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-8 pm in the basement of Dem Hall (Demonstration Hall, 229 Dem Hall Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824) if someone RSVP's. This form is meant for you to be informed when someone else has already R...

05/10/2024

These are some opportunities for you to learn more about maintaining your bike in a more organized way:
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Thanks Lansing Bike Co-op volunteers and League of Michigan Bicyclists - LMB for making these classes possible through their small grants program.

After taking a season off from hosting weekly classes we're bringing them back this year. For the next five weeks, starting Tuesday, May 7th, we'll be hosting weekly classes focused on exploring a different aspect of the bicycle each week. Classes will be Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-8p. No sign-up will be necessary. Just show up, with or without your bicycle. Thanks to a small grant from the League of Michigan Bicyclists - LMB classes will be free to attend. If you would like to make a small donation all the money raised will be used to fund future classes. The schedule is below. Hope to see you there!

04/16/2024

Pls. consider donating your bike to the MSU Bikes Service Center rather than just leave it behind to rust away:
https://msubikes.wordpress.com/2022/04/26/donate-your-bike-dont-abandon-it/

Pass this along to others who might be leaving campus soon.

The MSU Pack-up Pitch-In campaign is in full swing! Are you no longer needing your bike? Thinking of leaving your bike on the rack and hope it’ll be waiting for you in the fall? Well, please …

03/20/2024

This is an interesting take as you expect from the Bike Snob NYC blogger. Hope my wife doesn't read this!

Sometimes the best thing about bikes is letting them go

03/18/2024

Want to go faster, farther for free?!?! Read on....

MSU Bikes has been “Helping people discover the joys of bicycling!” for over 10 years now on campus and I’ve been in the trenches here all those years.  If I were asked what …

03/11/2024

Just learned that MSU’s new bike registration system is now live:
https://parking.msu.edu/permits/bicycles

Excerpt from that page:

"By using your bike’s serial number, manufacturer, and component information the bike is registered with a free permit that does not expire. Bike Index allows users to add photos of their bike to their account, update the bike registered to their permit, or transfer permit/bike ownership to another individual. Users can also report their bike as missing or stolen in the Bike Index system."

03/11/2024

Be sure and check out these items that will be on sale at the MSU Surplus Store for this special event offered at a great discount off MSRP.

Notes:
* The racks offered at this sale are the type that mount onto a motor vehicle to carry bikes not the kind that mount to a bike to carry stuff (we stock those latter type in our shop but NOT the type that mount to motor vehicles as they take up way more space than we have the space for here).

* There are a lot of parts for these racks available too in this lot.
* The Specialized branded accessories are from a generous gift from a former Specialized dealer.

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In partnership with the MSU Bikes Service Center, we will have a bike accessory sale on March 22nd. There will be helmets, shoes, shirts, socks, parts, racks, hardware & more!

02/13/2024

Due to the 1 year anniversary today of the awful evil perpetrated against Spartans the Brake Room will be closed.

02/13/2024

Cool to see the MSU Cycling Team getting some good exposure thru the student radio station, Impact 89FM - WDBM:

On this week’s episode of Exposure, Tessa Kresch spoke with Lalithkumar Jalakam and Gwen Urbain, members of the student organization, the MSU Cycling Team. They are a competitive and noncompetitive...

01/09/2024

The Brake Room at MSU is continuing to have open hours on Tuesdays from 6 - 8 pm this spring semester (2024).

NOTE! It's important that you RSVP via email or phone (NOT Facebook PM/ DM!) the day of whenever you'd like to attend a session to make sure we'll have staff there to open the shop!