Hometown Bicycles will be open DAILY from now through December 23 from 10 AM – 5 PM.
There are so many festive reasons to stop by!
Toys for Tots — We have collected 97 toys to date! The bins have been unloaded and we’re ready to fill them again. Thank you, cycling community, for your kindness and generosity!
Free Winter Storage with Tune-Up — Be the early bird who, come spring, isn’t waiting on your bike to be ready to roll. Get your tune-up now and store your bike at Hometown until March 1. Win-win!
Gift Certificate Trade-Up — Buy a Hometown Bicycles gift certificate for your favorite cyclist and receive a bonus accessory certificate from us! The accessory certificate is valued at 10% of your gift certificate purchase.
Hometown Ornaments — What a perfect way to support the shop while making your tree the coolest in town! We have custom Christmas tree ornaments in four designs, ranging from $10-$20.
Fun Holiday Gifts — From crazy cute socks to colorful bicycle helmets to the handcrafted, eclectic items sold in our Gifts & Novelties area, you’re sure to find something awesome!
FREE WINTER STORAGE with Tune-Up! Bring your bike in anytime between now and December 23rd for a tune-up and we will store it at the shop until spring! This means your bike will be all set to roll come those early days of cycling weather in March. No wait, no hassle… just freedom to get out there and ride.
We have room to store up to 220 bikes, so take advantage of this opportunity while space permits. For $25, we can even deliver your bicycle to your door this spring!
Gift Certificate Trade-Up! We are so grateful to our Hometown community for supporting our shop during what has been a tough year. We’ve received an outpouring of encouragement and generosity to keep us Hometown Strong. People still ask what they can do to support the shop as we enter the off-season, and with the holidays coming up, we have the perfect answer to that question — gift certificates! We are offering a Gift Certificate Trade-Up program this holiday season, through December 23rd.
Here’s how it works: Buy a gift certificate… Get an accessory certificate on us!
The accessory certificate is for 10% of the gift certificate you purchase. For example — you buy a $200 gift certificate and we give you a $20 certificate to use on accessories. The cyclist in your life is sure to love it!
Toys for Tots! We are a Toys for Tots collection site!
Your donations make a huge difference for children in Livingston County. This year, there is a greater need than ever before.
Drop off a new, unwrapped toy, game, or book for kids up to age 16, through December 19th.
If you aren’t up for shopping, you can make a cash donation at the shop and our Events Coordinator, Leslie B, will play the role of Santa’s elf and shop on your behalf!
THANK YOU for your generosity.
Congratulations to Team Hometown Bicycles sponsor, Dream Kitchens, on their fantastic new location!
Visit their showroom at 5728 Whitmore Lake Rd, Brighton.
Check out the “Transformation” page on their website to see how they create beautiful, functional spaces that match your style.
Hometown Bicycles Ornaments! Need a great stocking stuffer? Stop by for these custom-made Hometown ornaments! We have several designs available. Prices range from $10-$15.
We’d love to see photos of your Christmas trees donning a Hometown ornament! Send them to events@myhometownbicycles.com. We’ll feature them in a future newsletter.
Mobile Handyman Service by Joe Ostervik LLC
Did you know our Team Hometown Co-Captain is an exceptionally talented handyman?
Joe Ostervik is a fully insured, local handyman with over 30 years of experience in rough carpentry, roofing, siding, decks, and much more.
You can reach Joe at (517) 548-1954 or joe.ostervik@gmail.com. To see his work, check out his Facebook page HERE. Be sure to like/follow his page for updates!
Metroparks 2021 Annual Passes The unique gift of a 2021 Metroparks annual pass is the gift that keeps on giving. With an annual pass, you have access to all 13 Huron-Clinton Metroparks every day of the year.
Now through the end of December, you can get a 2021 annual pass at a discounted rate of just $35. For seniors (62+) the deal is even better, with a senior annual pass costing only $24. Take advantage of this great opportunity before year’s end.
Hometown Giveaway Challenge! We have a challenge for our Hometownies! Take a selfie with the Shaun & Dawn billboard (you can access it from Dorr Road, near the Humane Society). Post it on social media, tagging Hometown Bicycles and Lake Trust Credit Union. Stop by the shop to show off your selfie and get a FREE tube!
5 DAYS LEFT – BUT THEN, YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT…
The way I see it, you’re likely in one of three states: panic, smug satisfaction, or mid-mayhem. Happily, we have just the thing for each!
If a five-day countdown gives you the cold sweats, breathe! We carry everything from bikes to bottle cages, and t-shirts to travel mugs. There are gift certificates and tune-up certificates for the impossible-to-shop-for, and we’re open right up to 3pm on Christmas Eve. Everybody loves riding a bike (well, almost everyone, but don’t worry – they’re working on a cure!) So, guaranteed happiness with one-stop shopping. Crisis. Averted.
If you’re still tracking down stocking stuffers and add-on presents, you’ll be good to go with our keychains, bottle openers, Gu and Hammer nutrition, CO2 pumps, winter gloves, bike lube, magnets, bike lights, shot glasses, and the hundred and one other pint-sized goodies for fun, bike-ish finishing touches.
If you’re patting yourself on the back for beating the rush, come out and celebrate with a winter ride on one of our rental fat bikes or – yahooo!! – reward yourself with one of your own! Treat yourself to that bike computer you’ve been oggling, or that pair of winter riding boots your feet have been begging for. Just consider us your “I rock!” celebration center.
CHRISTMAS ORDERS & HOURS
The final day to place ANY order for Christmas arrival has come… aaaannd gone. But a belated present is better than NO present, so we’re happy to be your last-minute Santa’s elf!
CHRISTMAS HOURS:
OPEN: Christmas Eve 9AM – 3PM CLOSED: Christmas Day – January 1st
We’ll reopen January 2nd, normal hours!
WINTER BIKE CLINIC SERIES STARTS JAN 9TH
Life after the holidays… ? Why yes – yes there is! January and February are not only prime fat bike, spin bike, and trainer time, ’tis also the perfect season for educating yourself on how to be a savvy cyclist. We’ve run our Winter Clinic Series since opening in 2010… not to toot our own horn, but *toot* we’re really good at it! All clinics are FREE and, this year, we’re also offering some new perks and privileges – click the links below for details and to register:
<< Click the image at left for a printable Clinic Series flier!
THIS SATURDAY: FAT BIKE FRIENDLY RIDE
Yep, we’re sneaking in one more before the holidays!!
MEET AT HOMETOWN AT 9:45AM – WE ROLL AT 10AM Bring your Fat Bikes for a pedal through Island Lake with your Hometownies. This is an INTERMEDIATE, No Drop Ride (not an easy ride for a beginner) through hills, sand, and snow (exploring behind “the pond”). We estimate 12-16 miles of adventure. Come dressed for the weather! CLICK HERE for weather updates.** Fat Bikes are available for rent at the shop, if you don’t yet have your own! **
At t-minus 3 days and counting, it’s looking just like “a picture print of Currier & Ives” here in the store – with the nostalgia of bicycles turtledoving charmingly with the artistic beauty of new technology. We know you can hardly stand to wait… our back room is filling up with Christmas bicycles that we’re storing away from prying eyes ’til Christmas Eve (you’re welcome, Santa!) Could a bike for you be among them??
HOMETOWN BICYCLES CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S HOURS:
Christmas Eve | 9AM – 3PM
Christmas Day through New Year’s Day | CLOSED* Monday, January 2nd | 9AM – 9PM (regular hours)*
If you spy a streak light-speeding down the road, then you just saw the new owner of all these Gu – yep, they’re all gifts for one person!!
Stocking stuffers are a snap here at the shop – everything from nutrition to socks to tire levers to chapstick to sunglasses to coin purses to water bottle cages to… you get the picture.
And if you’re still working on some big gift ideas – we hear bikes are a big hit with the cycling crowd this year… just sayin’.
Merry Christmas, Hometownies!
