Love was found!

While it wasn't as yucky and wet as last year, Valentine's Day brought cold weather again this year. Nevertheless, our second-annual Looking for Love Velo Hunt tasked intrepid bike lovers to solve our riddles of love by sharing photos on Instagram and Twitter.

Using the hashtag #lookingforlovedc, 35 lovely riders wandered through some of D.C.'s most (and least) romantic landmarks before finishing up for a spirited afterparty at our future neighbors, One Eight Distilling. At the distillery, we enjoyed some fine spirits, took tours and gave away prizes:

Most points: Team 12

Winners of two $25 BicycleSPACE gift cards

Best Couple Costume: Team 7

Winners of a pair of BicycleSPACE steel tumblers

Best Photo: Team 4

Winners of two BicycleSPACE T-shirts

Thanks for joining us! Relive the fun or see what happened in the photos below. 

We'll be hosting more scavenger hunts in the spring, so stay tuned to our social media accounts and subscribe to our newsletter for updates. 

Vote BicycleSPACE

This being a political town, there's always a campaign going on. We humbly ask for your vote in two popular elections underway now.

Washington Area Bicyclists Choice Awards. The shop and our rides are on the ballot in several categories. Voting closes Feb. 15. 

City Paper Best of D.C. Readers' Poll. Please write us in for Best Bike Shop and Best Place to Get Your Bike Fixed in the Goods & Services category. Voting closes March 1.

Our platform is more, more, more. We pledge to give you more of what you know and love from BicycleSPACE.

• More social rides
• More bikes, products and service bays as we open new shops in Mt. Vernon Triangle and Ivy City this spring and summer
• More spaces, places and events to get together and celebrate our community
• More power to improve transportation infrastructure and create the sustainable, bicycle-friendly city we envision

Vote BicycleSPACE for Best Bike Shop and Best Place to Get Your Bike Fixed 

Vote Best Bike Shop, Hills of Anacostia for Best Shop Ride and 7th Street Social for Best Social Ride

The BicycleSPACE 7th Street Social is nominated for Best Social Ride in the Bicyclists Choice Awards

International Winter Bike to Work Day is Feb. 13

International Winter Bike to Work Day is Friday, February 13, 2015. Take two wheels to work and your bicycle commute will add to DC's worldwide stature. 

Now in its third year, this is a grassroots project centered around a friendly competition to count the number of bicycle commuters along a well-travelled street between 8 and 9 am local time. Participating cities and communities choose where to do the count, conduct it using a designated app and upload their numbers to the map. 

In 2014, the winning city was Oulu, Finland, with 387 cyclists. 

To the best of our knowledge, this is DC's first organized participation in the event. Let's roll to win internationally, Washingtonians!

Here's what we're planning.

We'll be positioned on 15th Street NW just south of Massachusetts Avenue. Roll past and be counted!

We'll reward our hearty winter bicycle commuters with coffee and bagels at our shop at 700 5th Street NW. (Reality check: we'll have limited quantities of refreshments.) Other places have lots of snow, so we have an advantage we can exploit to win the world championship. 

Please commit to ride by signing up at winterbiketoworkday.org so we can increase DC's numbers and send a global message about the strength of the DC bicycling community.

Share our Facebook event to encourage your friends to join Team DC in this "Winter Olympics" of bicycle commuting. See you Friday morning!

Handmade Valentines

Treat the ones you to love to handmade valentines by local Artist Annie Riker. Pick up a set of 3 for $10 at the shop. 

Does Valentine’s Day have you looking for love in all the wrong places? Let BicycleSPACE give you the clues you need on Saturday, February 14, with our delectable scavenger hunt! 

Fellow Creatures: Live from a Burger King turned Bike Shop walk-in freezer

Bikes and music go hand in hand here at BicycleSPACE. Check out our mechanic Will, and his band Fellow Creatures, latest music video filmed from the walk-in freezer of our current pop-up space.