Luft Los Angeles

Great bike service & well stocked shop. More importantly they foster a wonderful community - check the website or Instagram for community events they put on for the Venice community. Make sure to check out the titanium BlackHeart bicycles they stock 🙏. Speakers are sick too

I know nothing about bikes and brought in a secondhand mountain bike in need of a tune up. Guys here were super friendly and helpful and got my bike ready to ride. Cool shop, helpful staff.

I will weigh in as a few others have: WHAT A NICE SHOP… In particular, I recently crashed on my Checkpoint SL7 and broke my carbon bars (so much for “stronger” than steal!). So, time to upgrade the stock isocore pro bar. I had been thinking of getting a flat top bar since I ride more tarmac than gravel. Also thinkin about narrowing the 42s to 40 or 38…but I wasn’t sure on how id feel about goin that narrow. I also just NEED TO RIDE…i thought maybe I could “find” a drop bar to just get back on the road. You know….while I was deciding what bar and then the time to order one. I started on the boardwalk, goin to EVERY bike rental shop there was. I went to them ALL…nada. WT? So…I thought “these RVs I see round usually have bike parts…I stopped at 6 of them…nada. WT?? Ok…I started down Lincoln, couple shops, another 3 RVs…NOPE… And then I stopped here…. I walked in, explained my story, n Max/this shop, “GAVE ME A BAR TO USE UNTIL I GET NEW ONE…”. JUST LIKE THAT. NO PROBLEM… Let me ask you, when was the last time a shop of any kind GAVE YOU something to “use.” It is a FSA bar about $100. I wasn’t buying the bar through them or anything. MAX - and I think he was the bike engineer there. Kind of puts a little faith back in me for the fate of the human species … a little dramatic, but you get the point. If that’s not cool enough, the bar is a 38! Yes! I can now test this size for the bar I’m going to buy. I solved TWO problems at ONE time. Because of THIS STORE….as well as seeing something I hadn’t seen for a long time. Simple GOOD customer service WHERE the customer came first… The store trusted a stranger, that walked in randomly off the street. Wow. After all the stores I had just stopped at for help…THIS BIKE SHOP…. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BIKE SHOP. THEY DON’T KNOW IT BUT THEY’RE GOING TO GET MY BUSINESS AND I USUALLY HAVE A LOT OF IT. To the owner of the store, You have some good people working there. And everyone else… GO HERE.

Luft is a great shop for road and gravel cyclists. I rented one of their Blackheart bikes and is was a killer gravel bike that performed beautifully on the road. Even better, I was able to get one of the employees of Luft, whose name is West, take me on a killer ride. West grew up in Venice beach and was like a historian of the Venice and Santa Monica communities and had lots of cool stories and information to share with me as we road through those two neighbourhoods. Then, he took me up into the Santa Monica mountains for some gravel that was absolutely beautiful. West was an awesome guide and it was an amazing way to spend a day! Thanks Luft!