Last July Corey Piscopo shifted gears, moving his business Ride Workshop from its first location at 2730 Downhill Plaza to a new, sweet spot in downtown Steamboat Springs at 910 Yampa St. near the Yampa River Core Trail.

“We set up here this summer,” Piscopo said. “We were operating on the west side of town previously, just doing guiding and camps and some small operations, and just decided to go to a bigger scale.”

The shop offers a selection of mountain and gravel bikes, and all the gear needed to hit the core trail, the single track on Howelsen or the gravel roads in Routt County. The shop also plans and organizes guided bike tours, trips and adventures. The shop offers service in its downtown location and has kept the west side spot for added space.

“We do guided rides on Emerald, guided gravel rides, and we plan and put together trips for people,” Piscopo said. “People call us from out of town and want to know where they should go, what kind of bikes they need. We put the whole package together, and we help them figure out the equipment they can rent from us. We plan the rides and just make it easy.”

The shop, open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, will offer Cannondale mountain and gravel bikes as well as bikes from Opencycle. The shop also carries Garmin products including the Edge 1050 GPS Cycling Computer, the inReach MiniFlame Red and Forerunner 265 GPS running smartwatch.

Cyclists will also find clothing from Giordana, trainers and the parts riders need to get back on the singletrack trails and gravel roads.

Ride Workshop opened in summer 2020. Piscopo, who who offers years of experience in the cycling business, said he was excited to move to the new location and is looking forward to what the new space will bring.

“It’s prime,” Piscopo said. “It’s so fun just seeing all the riders going up and down, seeing visitors come to town and kind of start and finish the rides out of this area. It’s been great.”

He said the space will allow him to do more, including hosting community events that feature the adventures of local riders and topics that are important to the cycling community.

When things start to cool off over the next few weeks, Piscopo said the plan is to switch things up inside Ride Workshop. He said cyclists will still be able to find bikes and gear and get service, but he will also offer a few wintry twists.

“We will do fat biking, we’ll do snowshoe rentals and we’re going to get into more of the uphill ski mountaineering scene, which kind of overlaps. A lot of the bikers in town and visiting bikers also do skimo.”

Piscopo said he will continue to assist passionate cyclists, whether that’s providing top bikes, gear and service or helping customers discover and pursue great rides in Colorado and beyond.

“We take a group to Tucson, we take groups to Boulder and we’re trying to diversify where it’s more experience-focused,” Piscopo said. “It draws a bigger demographic of people from all over and keeps us busy year-round.”