Fremont’s trailside bike shop/coffee shop Cycle & Coffee has ‘unexpectedly’ closed

The shop in the snow, February 2025. From the Cycle & Coffee facebook page.

Housed in a small building in the middle of an industrial parking lot just off the Burke-Gilman Trail, Cycle & Coffee (AKA PIM" for Power In Motion") has been fixing and selling bikes since 2018. They shifted to start also selling coffee to people through their bike- or drive-up window in 2019, and the shop slowly transformed from a bike shop that sells coffee to a half bike shop/half coffee shop and eventually to mostly a coffee shop that also fixes up vintage bikes. The beloved and quirky fixture in the neighborhood announced Thursday that they would unexpectedly" shut down as of January 15.

In a short statement on Instagram, the company said they were unable to survive the skyrocketing costs of doing business in Seattle, particularly in food service."

Our Friends and Loyal Customers at Cycle & Coffee (Lovingly known as PIM):

Unfortunately and unexpectedly, today was out last day open as a business. Like many other businesses, we have been unable to survive the skyrocketing costs of doing business in Seattle, particularly in food service.

We are hoping that this is not the official end of Cycle & Coffee, and that a new owner will continue this community. For now though, this is it for us.

We want to thank all of our loyal friends and customers who have been there for us for all of these years and made this job worth coming to. We will see all of you around town!

And to our baristas and bike mechanics: thank you for the memories, friendship, and laughter.

The bike shop portion of the business shifted away from full service repairs. We are shifting our focus as a shop to align with our passion for restoring and customizing vintage bikes, and doing custom builds for folks getting into using bikes as transportation for commuting, bike touring and bikepacking," the shop wrote in a note to customers in July 2025.

It's awful news to lose yet another bike shop in Seattle, though this one is particularly frustrating because it seemed like PIM was working hard to adapt and innovate around what a modern bike shop could look like, mixing coffee service and bike repair while also working with the peculiarities of their location. While the standard bike shop model is facing serious challenges in today's brick-and-mortar small business environment, we need businesses to keep experimenting the way PIM did. I hope the shop can find new ownership to keep it going.

In case you needed another reminder, support your local bike shop! Bike shops are vital bicycle infrastructure, and what they do cannot be replaced by a website. Don't buy that bike thing online, order it through a shop. The mechanics there may even have a suggestion for a better option. We cannot afford to keep losing full-service bike shops.