About IttyBittyBikeShop

IttyBittyBikeShop is a small, locally owned bike shop just north of Downtown Urbana. We share a space with Parasol Records, BR Bikes and Repairs, and ToneGood Studio. You can find us in the non-descript red brick warehouse just down the street from Baldarotta's Porketta & Sicilian Sausage and 25 O'Clock Brewing Company. We stock parts and accessories while BR Bike and Repairs does repairs and sells used bikes -- a perfect pairing!  

IttyBittyBikeShop opened in 2010 as a tiny 2' x 2' corner of That's Rentertainment (an independent video store which opened in 1985 on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign-Urbana). Back then, there was no place in the immediate University of Illinois campustown area to buy tubes, lights, lube or even a patch kit. Champaign County Bikes, the local bike advocacy group, put out a challenge to the community to open a bike shop in the area. While we didn’t do that, we did dedicate a small corner of our video store to basic bike gear and called it the IttyBittyBikeShop.

In 2015, when That's Rentertainment closed, we moved our tiny corner-shop into a full-size retail storefront, sharing a space with Parasol Records (located at 303 W Griggs Street, Urbana). Since then we have been growing and expanding our services and products offered - finding our place within the wonderful cycling community of Champaign-Urbana!