about harness cycle
built for movement.
Harness Cycle is a beat-driven, feeling-based cycling studio in the heart of Ohio City's Hingetown neighborhood. We've been here since 2013: woman-owned, rooted in community + endlessly committed to raising the bar for what movement in Cleveland can look + feel like.
how it started
In 2013, before Hingetown was Hingetown, Anne Hartnett wanted to build something that would change how people in this city think about movement.
Construction on our first studio was running behind. So she ran with it — literally. Anne started Running the Bridges, a running group designed to build community in a part of Cleveland that hadn't yet come alive. She was planting seeds, introducing herself to neighbors, showing what was possible when you move together.
Then she opened a pop-up cycling studio in an empty shop on West 25th Street. No frills (well, there were cucumber slices in the water). Just bikes, music + a belief that Cleveland was ready for something different. Something great.
each week, booking opened at noon. by 12:05 classes were full
Word spread fast. Clevelanders who wanted to be part of something special lined up to get a spot. That momentum carried Harness Cycle into its first permanent studio on West 29th + Detroit.
Anne and her husband Andy, a Cleveland firefighter, poured heart into every detail. Andy physically built what Harness Cycle became: the studio, the stage where instructors teach, the walls that give the place its shape + soul.
