The Area 51 Bicycle Shop aims to provide Charleston, North Charleston, Summerville and the surrounding areas with reliable, quality bike shop sales and service. It specializes in retailing BMX bikes but also sells and services a variety of other bikes from makers like KHS, Haro, Masi, Torker and Phat Cycles; it also retails parts and accessories. Its services include tune-ups, inspections, wheel truing, tire changes, cable replacements and brake or gear tuning. Area 51 also offers custom paint jobs and can build custom bikes.