57 Waverly Street
Framingham, MA 01702

508 620 6600

Phil Altman runs the best, most affordable bike repair shop you're likely to find anywhere, and for those of us in MetroWest we're lucky to have it in the middle of Middlesex County in Framingham, less than a mile from Natick, and near Ashland and Holliston and not too far from Wayland, Sudbury, Wellesley, Southborough, Weston, and even Needham.

Waverly Street is route 135 in Framingham so Simple Living Cycles is very easy to get to by bike or car for anyone in these nearby towns.  Coming from Natick this bike repair shop is on the right not long after the junk-yard on the Framingham-Natick border; coming from downtown Framingham it's on the left less than a mile from the last light in the downtown area.  So the repair shop is quick to bike to, and for some repairs, like a wheel truing, you can wait while your bicycle is fixed.

Buy parts, simple one-gear bikes, or get a full tune-up, I'm very glad to have found this bicycle sales and repair shop near my home in Natick.  It'll be even greater if the Amazing Things Arts Center moves in down the street.  Simple Living Cycles is still where I go for bike repair, or buying inner tubes, even my weird 27 by 1 3/8 tube for my converted or hybrid Bianchi, to do tire changes myself, at the lowest, most reasonable (that is, cheapest) prices I've ever run across.

No link to this place, because this bicycle repair service keeps things so simple that it doesn't have a web site.  I hope this will help people looking for an inexpensive and socially conscious bike mechanic find Phil Altman!  The address again:

Simple Living Cycles
Bicycle Sales & Repairs

57 Waverly Street
Framingham, MA 01702

508 620 6600

UPDATE 2006 December 3: the Boston Globe featured Phil Altman and Simple Living Cycles in a Globe West feature article, Easy bike rider's mantra: Keep it simple and cheap.

Altman is without a question a person who gives a damn.