Workshops that fix bikes for cyclists

Choose by base or town

Workshops sit where the riders are, so the quickest way through this list is to start from the town you are staying in rather than from the island. Palma and its metro area hold more mapped workshops than anywhere else here: city-centre shops, the Portixol and Playa de Palma seafront strip, and the industrial estates off the ring road where the larger service departments tend to sit. If you fly in with a bike box and something is bent when you open it, that is the densest place to start — bike repair in Palma.

North of there, the Port de Pollença–Alcúdia corridor is the island’s main road-cycling base and carries the second concentration. Pollença and Alcúdia between them absorb most of the northern training-camp traffic, with Muro and Inca inland behind them. In the Tramuntana, Sóller is the only valley town with workshops on this map, which matters more than the number suggests: it sits between the Coll de Sóller and Puig Major and is the obvious bail-out on a Sa Calobra day.

East and south, Manacor is the largest inland service town on that side of the island, with Felanitx, Santanyí, Capdepera and Llucmajor covering the coastal loops around it. Those are ordinary local bike shops serving residents rather than camps — often an advantage in February, and a limitation when you need a specific race-level part. The towns index shows what else is mapped in the same place.

What a listing tells you, and what you have to ask

Be clear about what this data is. A listing is a location record: name, address, phone, website, Google rating and review text, photos, and the opening hours the business publishes. There is no capability field anywhere in it. We do not record whether a shop works on road bikes, whether it owns a disc-brake bleed kit, whether it will touch electronic shifting, whether it can seat a tubeless tyre, whether it offers mobile roadside repair, or whether the workshop is attached to a rental fleet. So this page does not tell you any of that, and we will not infer it from review text and present the guess as a filter.

That leaves the phone call as the real filter, which is no bad thing — it takes a minute and answers more than a checkbox could. Ask it plainly: do you work on road bikes, have you got a bleed kit for my brakes, do you service Di2 or eTap or EPS, can you seat a tubeless tyre in my size, and do you come out to a rider who is stopped or do I have to get the bike to you.

Urgent today, or booked for later

Sort the problem before you start calling, because the two need different behaviour. An urgent job is the one stopping you riding now: a torn casing, a snapped derailleur hanger, a broken spoke, a brake that will not hold on a Tramuntana descent, a shift cable gone at the top of a col. For those, phone rather than ride round hopefully. Describe the fault in one sentence, ask whether they can look at it today, and work down the nearest few numbers. Being on this map does not mean a shop has capacity, and it does not mean the door is open — check the hours on the listing first, because a 20 km transfer to a closed shutter is a bad afternoon.

A book-ahead job is everything you could have done at home and everything that needs a part ordering: a full service, a bottom bracket, chain and cassette, a wheel rebuild, a bearing press job, anything under warranty. Ring at the start of your trip rather than on the day you want it, and expect to leave the bike. We publish no turnaround times anywhere on this site — they depend on the week, the shop and what is on the shelf, and the shop is the only source for that.

What to send before you visit

A workshop can usually tell you in one message whether the ride over is worth it, as long as you give it something to work with. Send this, ideally by WhatsApp with a photo:

• Make, model and model year — “2022 Canyon Ultimate CF SL”, not “a road bike”.
• Groupset and generation, and whether it is mechanical, electronic or wireless. Brake type too: rim, or disc running mineral oil or DOT fluid.
• Wheel and tyre detail if the problem is down there: tyre size, tubeless or inner tube, and the axle standard if you know it.
• The symptom, not your diagnosis. What it does, when it started, what it sounds like, whether it only happens under load. Ten seconds of video of a drivetrain skipping beats a paragraph of description.
• Whether you already have the part, including a spare hanger. Turning up with the right hanger removes the wait for one to be ordered.
• Your deadline and where you are — the flight home on Saturday, or the fact you are 30 km out at a café right now.

If the answer is that your bike is off the road for the rest of a short trip, renting for the remaining days is sometimes the cheaper fix: bike rental is mapped separately, and the bike hire page sends one request to several shops at once.