One Stop Cycles

I’m a stranger in a strange land in LA. I work at a bike shop in my native Denver, and when I came to town to race and ride track bikes, I found this place was walking distance from my hotel.
I popped in with a wheel set that had been packed on an airline and just needed air in the tubes. I was hoping to get some air, talk about the local bike routes, and maybe buy something with a low price and high margin. The shop is small, all the bikes were well used, and the assorted parts in the display cases didn’t catch my eye.
The friendly old man working there would only speak Spanish. No big deal. «Aire por favor.» He looked the wheels over. «Solo aire.» He looked visibly upset that I didn’t need to buy anything, but after finding an adapter for presta, he topped them up with compressed shop air. Afterwords he asked for a dollar. My shop would never ask for money to fill tires, but I expected to tip the place somehow. Instead of continued business he got a dollar.
I expected to make a friendship or a connection, but besides the language barrier, I got the feeling that the portly old man isn’t a serious cyclist. All of the bikes in stock were pretty grubby Craigslist specials, and the back shop (from what I could see in the storefront,) didn’t inspire confidence.

UPDATE!!!
After writing a great review about this place I now have to write a bad one.
My first time coming to this place was very positive. The young manager knew a lot about bikes and was able to answer any questions regarding them.
I went back a few day ago and he is not there any more.
Instead there’s a sweet old man that runs the place now.
Sadly his knowledge of bikes is 0, every question that I asked him about my bike he would ask his bike mechanic for an answer.
The mechanic seems to have a bad attitude.
After he tried to fix the issue on my bike, I noticed that it was not done properly.
I brought it to his attention and he seemed annoyed, his answer was I needed a new piece but he still charge me for the labor.
Too bad the young manager is not here anymore… Shit got done when he was there.

Great service, friendly staff and cheap price. I brought my new bike for break and gear adjustment, it took just a few minutes and I paid only 11 dollars! Definitely coming back. Highly recommend this place.

Great little local place. Management is very helpful and greet you as soon as you walk through the door. They have a small selection of different bikes and bike accessories to purchase: bike seats, baskets, blinking lights, helmets, and locks. Javier gave me some great pointers on bike riding since I’m a newbie to the game. He was very friendly and knowledgeable! I’ll be going back!!!

This place is absolutely fantastic, the previous review is from 2011, this store is under new management. I walked in and was greeted by Javier, who was very courteous, also this place was very clean for a bike shop. I went in with a crappy bike i picked up at Walmart, and got everything tightened and trued. Javier knows his stuff.
He also helped me pick up some affordable lights. I plan on doing a lot of night riding. the whole adjustment plus new brake pads came out to 15 bucks (brake pads where 5) and I feel alot better and safer riding.
there is also a small selection of New bikes for sale and he offers a painting service. also i believe there is a sale on bike tires. and the tune ups are cheap too! all in all I had a great experience and wholeheartedly recommend this place to anyone… remember its under NEW management nothing to do with the other reviews

This shop has everything you need topped off with great service. I was a little «iffy» about going in because of the previous review but this looks nothing like the shop in that picture. After having a conversation with one of the guys there I found out there’s a new owner, which would explain the change. I actually had my wheels re-​trued with no complaints. I’ll definitely will be coming back check them out you wont be disappointed.

I knew my rear bike wheel was out of true, so during my last maintenance session I took if off to take to a bike shop to have it done right. I am also concerned that sand might have gotten into my gear bearings because I can hear the slightest grinding sound when I turned the casset while I was cleaning it. I ended up bringing both wheels to One Stop since I thought they might as well double check the front wheel also.
So I went to One Stop because I want to be a nice person and support my local mom and pops. When I went in I found the store is very disorganized. There are many used bikes for sale but all setup so close together I don’t think you could pull one out to test. Also the helmets are all piled up in the front window. There was a display case with bike parts, but all piled together, very disorganized.
I explained the man who was running the shop at the time that I wanted my rear wheel trued and the front one checked. Also that I might need my cassette and hub disassembled to clean and re-​pack. He seemed very confused about what I wanted him to do. He held up my rear wheel by the axle and spun it and said «it spins fine». Yes, I know it spins fine, I need it trued!
After insisting several times that it needed to be checked for trueness, he finally put in on a truing stand, found it to be laterally true and told me the problem must be with my brake and to bring the whole bike to him to ride and test. I asked him to check the radial true and he kept saying the wheel was fine. I tried to get him to check the cassette and hub for sand in the bearings, but he just kept spinning it and saying it turned fine, no problem.
So I left, went to another bike repair I like and found *dundundun* that my rear wheel of course is radially out of true like I knew. They also agreed that I may have sand in the gear bearings, but I’m gonna try going to a bike kitchen to learn to do it myself.
So in conclusion, I’m not in the least tempted to go back here. I don’t have confidence in their repair assessment abilities.