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Featured Products
2018 Coda Comp Disc Brakes
$ 639.00Buttery Smooth Ride of Steel
Jamis is famous for their steel bikes and the Codas have a lot to do with that. No frame material makes more sense on beat-up city streets than steel. Why? Hit a baseball with a wooden bat and then hit one with an aluminum bat and you’ll know why. You want your frame material to soak up those streets, not beat you with them. This makes a perfect bike for the Berkeley Oakland streets and beyond.
Think ATS for Fit
The clever and patented ATS steering system allows you to easily adjust your stem height. Pull it up on Monday morning for see-in-traffic commutes and then lower it for fitness rides on the weekend.
Easy Accessorizing
Every Coda offers a full complement of eyelets and rack mounts to simplify installation of a rear carrier, fenders and ring lock. Enough space for big tires or smaller to fit your needs.
Geared to Go Anywhere
The drivetrains on all our Codas feature long cage ATB rear derailleurs, full-size triple chainring cranksets (48/36/26 or 48/38/28) and big 11-32 cassette blocks. This gives you the dual advantage of having high road bike gearing for controlled pedaling at speed on descents and low mountain bike gearing for easier pedaling uphill. It’s a rider-friendly combination that’s made the Coda series one of our best selling bikes.
Stopping Power
Going elbow-to-door-handle in traffic with cars requires a reliable brake system. Coda Sport and Coda Comp offer linear pull brakes, which are plenty powerful in any condition. To make sure you’re in complete control, even when grabbing a lot of lever for a surprise stop, we include power modulators on the front brakes of the sport and comp. This modulator absorbs excess lever pressure, assuring controlled braking performance
Wheels Built for the Street
Low spoke count wheels, with radial lacing or 2-cross lacing, may look all sexy and smart, but wheels built in this manner require highly tensioned spokes in order to support the rim and rider. This over-tensioning results in a harsher riding wheel, which is the antithesis of the Coda raison d’etre. Every Coda wheel is built with sturdy 20+mm wide double-wall rims that allow us to specify wider tires with a larger contact patch for a smoother, more stable ride, and 32 stainless steel spokes laced in a 3-cross pattern that assures rugged durability.
Rolling Fast
Vittoria Randonneur 32c tires are just the right size for zipping through traffic. Narrow enough to roll reasonably fast, wide enough to provide a secure contact patch. With sufficient air volume to offer a comfortable ride and extra shielding in the casing for superior puncture resistance.
40 + Years of Cycling
The Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative was started by a group of UC Berkeley students in 1971 in the basement of the university's Student Union building, and incorporated in 1973. Since the beginning we've been worker owned. And more than 40 years later we're still here.
We come from various backgrounds of the cycling community: we commute, we race, we tour, we are parents, we're students. But something we all share is an appreciation for bikes, our craft, and the environment. Over the years some of us come and go, but in the end we all run this shop together. Through thick and thin.
Running a cooperative is no easy feat, but we are committed to each other, our community, bikes, and a more sustainable world. Thank you for supporting us.
Why Shop Co-op?
By NoBAWC
Doing it Better, Together
At other businesses, most of the people you deal with are just there to get their paycheck and go home. At a worker co-op, you will be talking to someone who is invested in the quality of their service, the quality of their product and ultimately the quality of the business as a whole.
Efficient from the ground up
Businesses run by single owners or absentee boards tend to come up with systems that make sense only on paper. Businesses run by people who work there, adopt practices that make sense.
Affordable without Exploitation
Cut out bloated CEO salaries, shareholder profit demands and the owner's mansion, and you get appropriately compensated workers AND better prices.
Built with Values
Built with Values where the bottom line for a traditional business is making money for the owner, worker co-ops are communities of people who have come together for a common goal. Sustaining their business financially is one goal, but almost never the only one.
Green by Nature
Worker co-op members have to care about the environmental effects of their operation, because they are the ones working and living in that environment every day.
Strong Local Economies
Because the workers who operate the business own it, there is no outside entity to take the profits and spend it elsewhere. Most money spent at a worker-owned business will stay in your local community.
Invest in the Community
Co-op workers tend to live in the community they work in, so they are more likely to understand and invest in the needs of the community.
Democracy All Day
Many of us spend the majority of our waking hours in a workplace. No matter how democratic our political system becomes, if our workplaces to be private dictatorships we will never be free. If your vision of a better society is one of expanded democratic space, then you will want to support democratic workplaces.