UPDATE, 2024. Please note that Trophy Bikes, after a pandemic closure, has relocated into a compact Center City location (133 S. 23rd St.) and now specializes in Brompton folder bicycles. (and oddly, the best selection of bicycle bells on the East Coast). We’re open Wed-Sat., noon to 6 p.m. BUT it is always best to call to make sure we’re open.
We hope you will get involved with making biking better in Philadelphia by joining the Bicycle Coalition and Philly Bike Action.
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(below is a sort of bio which you can read if desired, it’s somewhat accurate)
Trophy Bikes’ owner is Michael McGettigan. His checkered past includes stints as a reporter, piano tuner, and musician during Philly’s paleopunkthic era.
McGettigan has long been tangled up with the bike advocacy movement in Philadelphia. Before joining Trophy Bikes, he helped found Youth Cycle & Recycle (now known as Neighborhood Bike Works) and served two stretches on the Board of the Bicycle Coalition. mcget has also produced a number of successful cycling events in Philadelphia and beyond, including the Great British Bike Weekend, the Schuylkill Scramble (Philly’s first NORBA mountain bike race), the Las Vegas Folder Frolic and the Brompton U.S. Championships. OH, and there’s the Cape May Dyno – now produced by the Philly Dynamo Headlight Society. (The CMD rolls, OVERNIGHT, from the Liberty Bell to Cape May, on the last Friday of the September.)
Longest day on a bike: 115 miles—a detour-packed ramble to Cape May.
McGettigan was one of Philadelphia’s first Effective Cycling Instructors and has this to say about this preposterous “vehicular cycling” method: “The rules exist to be broken. There are times when taking refuge on the sidewalk is the only rational choice.” He is also FitKit and FitCycle certified.
His favorite bikes include a Surly Cross Check fitted with a Sturmey-Archer 3-spd hub, a Brompton M6L folder, and a 1947 Rudge English Roadster. His next bike? A Surly Straggler or Long Haul Trucker. (NOPE: instead, got a SURLY Pack Rat, which they promptly discontinued.)
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