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Featured Links

AVAM Kenetic Sculpture Race "Baltimore's Almost Famous Annual East Coast National Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race"

Velocipede Bike Project "… is a collectively run non-profit dedicated to enhancing bike culture in Baltimore City"

CUE SHEET Light St Cycles to BWI Loop/B&A Trail

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Come check out our Spring clothing, it is the season!

Huge end-of-season sale on 2007 and earlier bikes. Click here

Strider Running Bikes are here!

We just got in the new Strider Running Bikes. For kids age 1-5, they have no pedals, teaching kids safely and easily how to control and balance on a bike. For more info and video, go to stridersports.com

Burley trailers are here!
    

Featured sale bike of the week

2007 Lemond Rennes Tri-bike 55cm
Original Price $2199.99 SALE $1749.99
* Frame: Dual Zone 6066 T6 Aluminum Triathlon
* Fork: Triathlon Aero Carbon w/ Trip Strips
* Wheels: Bontrager Race Lite Aero
* Group: Shimano Ultegra
Light St Cycles featured bike of the month sale comes with a free Innovtions Tire Repair & Inflation Wallet.

New Page!

Gwynn's Falls Trail featured in New York Times

By JAMES DAO
Published: October 2, 2005
THERE is a patch of the Gwynns Falls Trail in downtown Baltimore where a cyclist can feel dislodged from time and place. After winding past gas stations, parking lots and truck-clogged streets, the trail swerves into a waterfront oasis where tall grass and thick trees obscure a tangle of elevated highways to the east and a Greyhound bus station to the west. The sensation is like stepping off sun-baked pavement into an air-conditioned room: all is suddenly cool, quiet and calm.
Link to the full NYT aricle

 

We've added more pages to the web site
Looking for a friendly group ride? See what's happening on the Community Rides page. Want to win a free inner-tube? Check out the monthly photo contest on the contest page. And see who's hot on the customer and employee photo page.

This site is for all cyclists - to enhance your cycling experience.  Are you biking for fun or to get fit?  Do you need advice on biking for transportation or for competition? Do you need help finding cycling groups, or do you want to ride solo?  Do you want to upgrade your drive train, find the right lighting system, or outfit yourself for any of the four seasons?  Maybe you know nothing about cycling but you want to buy a gift certificate from a store that can fulfill any cyclists desires.  All of the above are good reasons to come to Light Street Cycles.  The reasons to ride a bike are as divers as Baltimore itself, and your needs and goals are important to us.

It is about the ride.

Biking is going really fast without the noise of a motor...it’s also taking your time and enjoying the scenery.  It is getting from Baltimore City’s bustle to Patapsco State Park’s abundant wildlife and back in less time than it takes to go shopping at the mall.  It is shifting up as you climb  the roads around Loch Raven Reservoir .  It is also noticing that pretty block of row houses on Guilford, the historic landmarks on Fayette, intoxicating lunch aromas as you coast through Little Italy, and it is discovering what famous architect designed the arch exiting Druid Hill Park.

Biking through the woods on an autumn day is a different ride from that same trail on a spring day, or winter, or at night (oh, but that’s not allowed - we can’t condone that!)  Sometimes its comparing notes on just where in that curve around that drop-off after the stream crossing you  wreck the most.  (No, no ..gravity is our friend.)

Biking is getting your exercise at Lake Montebello or Fort McHenry or Loch Raven Reservoir and saying “hi” to the other regulars who walk and jog and bike and keep the area lively and themselves fit.  For many people, it is the way back to a blood pressure reading they can live with.