Singletrack Reader Awards 2015: Best Online Service

The best of the online places we go to can offer the best of both worlds – the convenience of shopping online, and the customer service and attention to detail that comes from a proper shop.

The finalists this year are…

Charlie the Bikemonger
Leisure Lakes Online
TF Tuned

Charlie the Bike Monger

Charlie started out as an online shop, before opening up a real bricks-and-mortar job in Swanage. But his impressive and eclectic stock, his relentless and amusing promotional activities on social media coupled to his exemplary aftersale service, and his larger than life ~~beard~~ personality all make Charlie a force to be reckoned with.

Check Charlie out here

Leisure Lakes Online

This family run chain of nationwide stores has an impressive online component. A huge range of stock, online help whenever you need, a VIP area, and an aftersales package which is helped by having a number of stores – it all adds up.

Check Leisure Lakes Online out here

TF Tuned

If you want your fork, shock or seatpost serviced (there are surprisingly few that they don’t do) wang your gear over to TF Tuned. Getting your stuff sorted is painless, couriered to and from your door, should you choose, and there are plenty of consultations over the phone. For an online company there’s a nicely personal touch.

Check TF Tuned out here

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Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.